Abby Cipar
Origin: Akron, OH, USABirth Year: 1997
Cipar's work considers laborious acts of making, such as sewing, binding, pinning, tucking, stretching, and squeezing, as sites for communicating intense, highly personal experiences of gender dysphoria.
Material choices within their work speak to reciprocity and found family, while simultaneously opening dialogues surrounding the heaviness of nostalgia and how we dictate what parts of history are worth keeping.
Trans-Plant (Scarlet Embrace), 2023
Fabric, fiber fill, crocheted yarn, embroidery thread, beads, sequins, glitter, faux orchids, latex and acrylic paint, ceramics non-fire glaze, 3” scratch awl, glitter
21.5" × 16" × 7"
That’s All In The Past (it brings me down, down, down), 2023
Fabric, fiber fill, sewing notions, glitter, hand-made paper, acrylic paint, oil on canvas
41" × 51" × 13"
Out from Under My Feet
(what a shame to have not heard your laughter in years), 2023
Fabric, fiber fill, thread, beads, sequins, acrylic paint, hand etching of dogwood flowers on annealed copper
8.5" × 10.5" × 6.5"