Monika Pobiarzyn

Biography
Monika Pobiarzyn was born in Poland and raised in New Jersey. Her craft-based practice creates metaphors worked by hand. She is interested in having tactile conversations with handmade paper, textiles, and clay to contemplate the labor of craft as a virtuous act and its intersection with domestic spaces and embodied memory. She currently lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts.
Email: mpobiarzyn@gmail.com
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an offering (video still)
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Crocheted cotton string, cotton pulp, water, video, 2021
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an offering (video still)
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Crocheted cotton string, cotton pulp, water, video, 2021
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an offering (veil)
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Crocheted cotton string, 2021
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with an( )other
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Handmade sweater, yarn, crochet, 2021
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unwritten, rewritten
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Handmade paper, journal entries, thread, 2020
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unwritten, rewritten (detail)
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Handmade paper, journal entries, thread, 2020
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unwritten, rewritten (detail)
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Handmade paper, journal entries, thread, 2020
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here we are… (detail)
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Crocheted cotton yarn cast in porcelain slip, 2022
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here we are… (detail)
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Crocheted cotton yarn cast in porcelain slip, 2022
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here we are… (detail)
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Crocheted cotton yarn cast in porcelain slip, 2022