Lisa Kokin | Art made from thread

Welcome

This website strives to be accurate and complete. It represents a large part of the work I have completed since 1990. Although it is rather vast in scope, there are many pieces in each body of work that are not included. On occasion I accept commissions for private and public collections. Please send me a note if you are interested in a commission.

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Sewing & Alterations

Raw Edge

Part of my practice involves mining past unsuccessful pieces and reworking them. I do this by reducing the work to tiny snippets, often using the “wrong” side, and reassembling them into asymmetrical grids made of rectangles of synthetic felt, upholstery samples, clothing, metal, sewing notions and other easily available materials which are often not considered aesthetically interesting.

I had been making work using repetitive rectangles when I saw a photograph of a Brazilian graveyard for people who had perished from Covid. Some of the graves were embellished with flowers and other mementos, while others were bare or minimally decorated. Using stitching and fiber collage and working intuitively, I made dozens of small rectangles and pieced them together to form the work that comprises Raw Edge.