KIRSTYN HOM works with sculpture, installation, and performance to explore the intersection of language and textiles. She utilizes long durational craft methods such as natural dyeing, repetitive sewing, and experimental woven structures to expose moments of layering and erasure in the building of a text. These processes help her create new languages for herself and locate new places of belonging. Hom’s practice works through memory and loss, and sees textiles as a way to locate what cannot be easily translated in words yet acutely felt in the body. She received her BA in Art Practice at UC Berkeley, and MFA in Visual Arts at UC San Diego. Hom’s work has been included in exhibitions at venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego; Open Windows Cooperative, San Francisco, CA; and the Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center, Burbank, CA, among others.

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