Caroline Zimbalist

Caroline Zimbalist is a New York City-based interdisciplinary artist and designer who creates one-of-a-kind works by hand using nontraditional processes and techniques. She works with natural materials as well as gelatin, glycerin and other bioplastic materials to reinterpret archival landscape images, distorting their colors and textures and re-sculpting them into three-dimensional forms. She discovered a love for avant-garde design while studying Experimental Knitwear abroad at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, in London. She recently earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion from Parsons School of Design. Here her work was nominated for the Parsons Class of 2019 “Future Textile Award” and featured in the Parsons Festival.

“As an artist, I am un-beholden to any single medium and often let the materials dictate their final form. My process involves mixing raw materials over a heat source and then pouring the mixture on the ground with a base fabric or plastic sheet. I then add the colors by dripping them into the mixture. Specifically placing the colors in time, flow into one another and attach. From there, I use these organic shapes that form to create my sculptures. I emphasize the dominance, sublimity, and beauty of nature through biomimicry. By operating at the intersection of craftsmanship and chance, of art and science, and of the organic and the constructed, I am able to visualize the invisible, transforming the raw materials in my studio into textile-based sculptural objects that later can become wearable pieces of art. This unique multidisciplinary approach allows me to experiment and to explore the natural world from within my studio”.

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