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Joyce Lin

Joyce Lin embraces material experimentation as a core element of art making. Shecreatessculptural furniture objects that explore the connections between outer surfaces and theinterior, influenced bythe extensive human manipulation of our physical environment. Witheach piece, Lin aims to capture the humor and anxiety related to the ongoing erosion ofboundaries between our natural and artificial worlds.

Lin was born in 1994 and grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where she attended the AlabamaSchool of Fine Arts. Her cross-disciplinary interests led her to the Brown-RISD Dual DegreeProgram, where she earned bachelor’s degrees in Furniture Design at the Rhode Island Schoolof Design and Geology-Biologyat Brown University in 2017.Lin’s accolades include being named a Dwell 24 Emerging Designer, receiving the Samuel GraggAward for Innovation, and the Excellence in Craft award from RISD.

Her work is held in thepublic collections of the RISD Museum, Mint Museum, City of Houston Civic Art Collection,New Orleans Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum, Munson, and SFMOMA. She is currently basedin Houston.

 

“ My design features the image of a demolished eighteenth-century Louis Delano is arm chair rendered in knotted silk and sinking into the surrounding wool. I approached this collaboration as a chance to transform the rug—a traditionally flat and functional object—into a canvas for deconstructing and reinterpreting the piece… ”

THE PROJECT
Woven Forms 2 – Remains