BIO
my quilting practice emerged during a profound rupture in my life. for years i balanced a full‑time career in architecture while practicing my art in the margins. everything changed when my mother was diagnosedwith cancer. i left my job to care for her, spending six months in the intimate rhythms of tending, waiting, and witnessing. after her passing, i inherited her sewing machine and closets of fabric we had collected and stitched together since my childhood.
grief brought me back to those materials. what began as a way to stay close to my mother’s hands became a new artistic language. sewing offered a structure when the rest of my life felt unmoored; quilting became a way to metabolize loss, to honor her craft, and to continue a lineage of domestic knowledge passed down through generations of women in my family.
grief brought me back to those materials. what began as a way to stay close to my mother’s hands became a new artistic language. sewing offered a structure when the rest of my life felt unmoored; quilting became a way to metabolize loss, to honor her craft, and to continue a lineage of domestic knowledge passed down through generations of women in my family.
my work now grows from this inheritance. i approach quilting as both a material and emotional archive — a place where memory, labor, and care accumulate in layers. each piece is built through slow, repetitive gestures: cutting, mending, hand‑stitching. these actions echo the quiet, often invisible work that shaped my upbringing and sustained my family. they allow me to transform domestic labor into authorship, resilience, and storytelling.
in this practice, i am not only making quilts; i am extending a conversation with my mother, honoring the strong women who came before me, and reimagining the domestic as a site of creativity and meaning. my quilts hold the traces of that lineage; the grief, the tenderness, the resourcefulness, and invite viewers into the intimate spaces where memory is made and remade.
BACK TO HOME︎︎︎
RESUME︎︎︎
in this practice, i am not only making quilts; i am extending a conversation with my mother, honoring the strong women who came before me, and reimagining the domestic as a site of creativity and meaning. my quilts hold the traces of that lineage; the grief, the tenderness, the resourcefulness, and invite viewers into the intimate spaces where memory is made and remade.
BACK TO HOME︎︎︎
RESUME︎︎︎
DOMESTIC LABOR™
jennifer is a textile artist whose quilt‑based practice centers memory, domestic space, and the often‑invisible labor of women. working with repurposed fabrics and found imagery, she creates layered compositions that transform everyday materials into intimate narratives. her work reflects the quiet strength of the women in her family, whose domestic practices and resourcefulness shaped her understanding of care, creativity, and survival.
before dedicating herself to her art full time, jennifer spent years working in architecture, a background that continues to inform her sensitivity to structure, materiality, and the built environment. this shift from architecture to textile art reflects a return to the tactile, domestic, and intergenerational forms of making that have always grounded her.
before dedicating herself to her art full time, jennifer spent years working in architecture, a background that continues to inform her sensitivity to structure, materiality, and the built environment. this shift from architecture to textile art reflects a return to the tactile, domestic, and intergenerational forms of making that have always grounded her.
raised in an immigrant household where mending, saving, and reusing cloth were both necessity and tradition, jennifer draws deeply from these inherited gestures. she is drawn to the emotional and material histories embedded in textiles — the softness of worn fabric, the scent of a childhood linen closet, and the traces of unpaid labor that linger in household materials. through quilting, hand‑sewing, and the slow, repetitive acts of repair, she honors these histories while reimagining domestic labor as a site of authorship and artistic expression.
jennifer’s work weaves together personal memory and collective lineage, challenging the boundaries between craft and contemporary art while elevating the everyday into something quietly resonant.
jennifer’s work weaves together personal memory and collective lineage, challenging the boundaries between craft and contemporary art while elevating the everyday into something quietly resonant.
DOMESTIC SPACE
EMBODIED STORIES
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