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ARTIST BIO
Lauren DiCioccio is an emerging artist based in San Francisco, California. DiCioccio received a BA from Colgate University in 2002. Though academically trained in painting, much of her current body of work employs the medium of embroidery, which she learned at an early age from her mother. DiCioccio has shown her work at venues including: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), the Bellevue Art Museum (WA), Pasadena Art Center (CA), and the University of Nevada (Reno). She has completed artists residencies at the McColl Center for Visual Art (North Carolina) and at Recology San Francisco and served as the Resident Manager at the Djerassi Resident Artists' Program for six years. She is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery(San Francisco, CA). Â
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My work investigates the physical beauty of common mass-produced objects as they approach obsolescence. Ubiquitous items of day-to-day life - the newspaper, 35mm slide, or hard-cover book, for example- are quickly becoming cultural artifacts as these media change modes due to technology and the hope for a less wasteful lifestyle. Approaching sculpture, painting, and tedious handicraft with an air of lightness, I aim to remind viewers of the importance of our relationships with these simple but intimate objects of everyday life and to provoke a pang of nostalgia for their familiar physicality.
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