Episode 121: Natural Fibers Sculpture and Gendered Iconography With Sydni Gause

In this week’s episode, I’m speaking with Sydni Gause, an interdisciplinary artist and Adjunct Professor in Sculpture at Alfred University. Sydni works with an array of materials that she uses in her sculpture, installation, and fiber-based practice. She uses her work as a means to respond to issues between power structures and gender inequality. Working with text and gendered iconography Gause exposes her oppressive truths and begins to challenge the viewers' conditioned constructs of both a woman’s role in society and in the home. Comment below to keep the conversation going! 

Mother’s Hand,Onion skin dyed silk, pearl pin

A Past Tied to a Dark History, 19th Century Grain Cradle & felted sheep wool

Grandmother

If Father Could Pick My Veil, cotton, silk, velvet, vintage lace, steel

Weight Of Words, velvet, zip-tie, bleach, sand

It Starts In The Home