Medium: India ink, charcoal, and sharpie on drawing paper

Size: 24"x 30"

Sofia Herr’s work explores the spectrum between simplicity and complexity through the lens of nostalgia and early adulthood. Employing slow, repetitive creative processes such as knitting, crocheting, spinning, stippling, and screen-printing, Herr examines the veneration of the banal object as it becomes art.

Being a multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on fibers and textiles, Herr’s work is in conversation with the larger discussion of craft versus fine art. As a young artist, Herr engaged with traditional ideas of craft (jewelry making, yarn craft, origami, coloring books, scrapbooking, etc.), and her transition to fibers in her mature practice is a return to these youthful creative outlets. Integral to their work is the dedication to sustainability and the value of quotidian objects. Herr seeks to dismantle the gender and material hierarchies of power within the art sphere that are the direct result of fibers work being historically labeled as “women’s work” and “craft.” Herr’s work insists that it is art, but in doing so, it does not deny that it is also craft.