Ruth jeyaveeran biography

Artist Name: Ruth Jeyavareen
Residency Dates: April – June 2024
Born: 1972
Hometown: Lusaka, Zambia
Lives & Works: New York, NY
URL: ruthjeyavareen.com
Education:
2007 | Fashion Institute of Technology: Textile Design
1994 |The University of Michigan: BFA, Painting

Bio/Statement:

Ruth Jeyaveeran is is one of the selected artists for the 2024 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program.

Ruth Jeyavareen’s work is based on traditional material practices. Drawing from her experience as part of the South Asian diaspora, she uses textiles to examine a shared history of alienation and dissociation. In her felted soft sculptures and installations, the boundary between human, animal, and flora dissolves to tell a story of isolation, migration, and evolution. The forms evoke vessels, tools, toys, plants, ornaments and bones, hinting at objects that have been buried and forgotten, and are now rediscovered through the ritual of felting. Each piece functions as an intimate excavation as the fibers shift and resettle creating unexpected marks that ris

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