Sam Slipkovich

Origin: Nashville, TN, USA
Birth Year: 1998

I am a quiltmaker and weaver. My work concerns body, blanket, and pattern, and the intimacies between. My work is about presence and phenomenal interaction, with reference and reverence to historical textiles and the historical makings of textiles. Reflecting, exploring, and translating signs and symbols towards futurity and contemporaneity– meditation–documentation, mourning, longing, failure, and ulterior forms of self-affirmation.

I depict people in my life translated through woven or quilted patterns of my creation and from previous makers. My work oscillates between larger “quilt” scale forms, like a quilt tailored to myself to create a lifesize human form, and in smaller scale, dolls and the miniature scenes containing them.

Centipede, 2023
Quilt rayon thread
24" × 5"

Seam Ripper, 2023
Oak and steel
52" × 9"

Wall Boyfriend, 2023
Quilt (Cotton, linen, polyester)
52" × 70"

Whirlpool, 2023
Ink on paper
20" × 25"