Phuong's profile
Phuong X. Pham has an MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking and currently works for the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. In addition to being an artist, Phuong is also the proprietor of Phampersand Press, through which she markets and distributes one-of-a-kind and editioned artist books, journals/blank books, fine art prints, screenprinted apparel, and other handmade goods.
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I use organic fiber and bits of personal detritus to do site-specific drawing installations that are quiet and subtly grotesque. With a combination of horsehair, human hair, silk gauze, fingernail clippings, and wheat paste, I merge tangled accumulations to surfaces. These nests and gatherings grow out of and chew into the material to which they are attached. Silk gauze acts not only as an armature for winding hair and gluing nail clippings; its sheerness and natural molecular strength allow it to form a webbed second ?skin? as it climbs out of and around a surface. I am interested in simulating bodily residue while restructuring these allusions against a new space, and in doing so, I am blurring the moments between memory, artifact, and experience. Skin becomes substrate; everyday debris becomes uncanny; remnants become marks.
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I use organic fiber and bits of personal detritus to do site-specific drawing installations that are quiet and subtly grotesque. With a combination of horsehair, human hair, silk gauze, fingernail clippings, and wheat paste, I merge tangled accumulations to surfaces. These nests and gatherings grow out of and chew into the material to which they are attached. Silk gauze acts not only as an armature for winding hair and gluing nail clippings; its sheerness and natural molecular strength allow it to form a webbed second ?skin? as it climbs out of and around a surface. I am interested in simulating bodily residue while restructuring these allusions against a new space, and in doing so, I am blurring the moments between memory, artifact, and experience. Skin becomes substrate; everyday debris becomes uncanny; remnants become marks.
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