Caitlin McCormack
Patron I, 2017
Crocheted cotton string, glue, enamel paint, steel pins
35 x 25 x 5"

Artist Statement
My work externalizes experiences with mental illness, dysmorphia, and assault, producing a taxonomy of emotive vessels. Exploring queerness, isolation, and existential dread through an uncanny, sometimes humorous lens, I contemplate societal reluctance to legitimize gendered craft and regard crochet as a behavioral response to apocalyptic conditions. Inspired by folkloric botanical motifs, museum displays, liturgical objects, sci-fi/body horror cinema, and an abundance of time spent alone with an overactive imagination, each object is an unraveling relic of a memory or fixation, tethered to a surface and made viewable at a distance.

Artist Bio
Philadelphia-based fiber artist and educator Cait McCormack has contributed works to solo and group exhibitions at Elijah Wheat Showroom, Hashimoto Contemporary, The Mutter Museum, Museum Rijswijk, The Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, The Taubman Museum of Art, The Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Feinkunst Kruger, Field Projects, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, and Future Fair in NYC. Their sculptures have appeared in publications including The New York Times, BOMB Mag, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, Whitehot Magazine, Smithsonian, and Bust Magazine. In addition to holding teaching positions at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Hussian College of Art and Design, McCormack has participated in artist residencies including Vermont Studio Center (VT), The Peter Bullough Foundation (VA), The Wassaic Project (NY), Byrdcliffe Artist Colony (NY), Monson Arts (ME), and The Provincetown C-Scape Dune Shack Artist Residency (MA). McCormack was the recipient of a Joseph Robert Foundation grant in 2021 and received the Woodmere Art Museum's Maurice Freed Memorial Prize in 2023.

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