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Lisa Kokin
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2014

About the Item

Lisa Kokin creates her art with recycled and reclaimed materials she has found at flea markets, thrift stores, and recycling centers. In the past she has worked with buttons, photographs, and other found objects, but now she works mostly with books, the contents of which she shreds, blends, pulps, glues, and otherwise modifies before presenting them to her viewers in various states of recognition. Kokin’s deft sewing skills stem from childhood; her parents worked at an upholstery company so her spare time was spent sewing unlikely materials together. Her early work involved stitching together found photographs, often resulting in startlingly surgical creations of children, weddings, and other subjects. Kokin also began deconstructing books and using the paper and covers as her medium. She uses a blender that was handed down from her family to shred and pulp the paper so that she can morph it into various shapes, sometimes preserving select words or pieces of text, or creating anagrams from letters of the text. While in the past Kokin has used readable text, in her current work, she has substituted text for fragments of stripped-down zippers, with their attendant metaphors of concealment, closure, and impenetrability. The zippers themselves are often not “read” as such, as they are bundled by thread. It is only by reading the titles and source texts that the viewer has an inkling of the content. Kokin’s work offers themes of political and social subversion and commentary while conveying a remarkable respect and delicate tenderness in her treatment of these cast-off and discarded materials. Lisa Kokin received her BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA. The recipient of numerous awards and grants, Kokin was most recently given the Purchase Award from the Richmond Civic Center Public Art Interior Acquisitions Project in Richmond, CA. The artist teaches a variety of classes and workshops and volunteers her time as a mentor to other artists. She currently lives and works in El Sobrante, California, outside of San Francisco.

Creator:
Lisa Kokin (1954, American)
Creation Year:
2014
Dimensions:
Height: 28 in (71.12 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)
More Editions & Sizes:
Frame Dimensions: 32.5 x 25.75 inches
Medium:
Linen,Thread
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Jackson, WY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU183807603

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