Page 50 - Texas Dimensional: Fine Art in Three Dimensions Catalog of Work

SHERRY TSENG HILL
HOUSTON

I make mixed-media work to investigate what it means to be a part of a
community. Like soap bubbles in constant flux, colliding together and pulling
apart, forming larger groups and separating into smaller ones, the sense of
belonging to communities is often fluid. It is this richness, this liquidity, and
liveliness that I find the encounters and the inevitable entanglements among
communities both agitating and exciting. Being an immigrant, a person of color,
a woman, and a minority, I live in this fluid space of liminality and examine the
joys and tensions arising from being on this liquid threshold.

My work translates the relationships between peoples, languages, and
histories across cultural differences. I look for the shared universal experiences
and the unsoluble sediments of these translations. I reference traditional
craft practices and use personal objects of common denominators in our
everyday surroundings, such as newspapers, photographs, and textiles. By
cutting, tearing, and shredding, I excavate from my past and reconstruct new
narratives by weaving, stitching, and gluing. Layering seemingly disparate
materials and re-framing my own experiences, I question the attitudes and
fears that have permeated our environment and behaviors within it. Abstracting
these personal narratives is a way of sharing these explorations through a
universal perspective.

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Threading Edges, Fringes and Corners
2022

Multilingual newspapers, threads, archival paper
28x50x2.5
1 to 2 lbs.
$12,000

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Naming Ourselves/ATGC
2022

OurselvesATGC_Multilingual ewspapers, ID wristbands, yarn, archival paper
28x50x3.5
1 to 3 lbs.
$12,000