hand-knit textiles sculpture with large-scale photographic portraits that reimagines the institutional hospital gown
Artwork

Exam Gown

2002
textile sculpture, stainless steel table, chromogenic prints
installation dimensions variable
photographs: 60 H × 30 W in (152 H × 76.2 W cm) each
sculpture with table: 36 H × 24 W × 24 D in (91.44 H × 60.96 W × 60.96 D cm)

Exam Gown is a speculative revision of a hospital gown design that is hand-knit out of machine washable yarn. The personal and labor-intensive quality of the knitting process evokes ideas of a more personal and less disposable institutional object.

Exam Gown is a speculative revision of a hospital gown design that is hand-knit out of machine washable yarn. The personal and labor-intensive quality of the knitting process evokes ideas of a more personal and less disposable institutional object.

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Mills College
Nicolaysen Art Museum

Exhibitions: Mills College Art Museum, Nicolaysen Art Museum