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Artist combines ceramics with embroidered artwork to create delicate sculptures

If you love seeing artists mix media in unexpected ways, Diem Chau is someone who should definitely be on your radar. She threads delicate embroidered artworks and combines them with white porcelain cups and plates to create unusual sculptures.

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Two simplified figures with their heads replaced by textured fabric panels in blue and green, embroidered onto a white porcelain cup

As her profile states: "Chau combines common mediums and common means to create delicate vignettes of fleeting memory, gesture and form, resulting in works that combine egalitarian sensibility and minimalist restraint. Her work touches on the value of storytelling, myths and its ability to connect us to each other through cultural and humanistic similarities. Chau's current work drifts into new territory by exploring the periphery of the narrative, moments forgotten and faded, or too brief to retain."

A Vietnam native, Diem and her family moved to America as refugees in 1986. She is a BFA graduate from Cornish College of the Arts and has received an Artist Trust GAP Grant and a PONCHO Artist-in-Residence Award. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, Seattle and Los Angeles. Discover more at www.diemchau.com.

Via Artistic Moods | All images courtesy of Diem Chau

White porcelain plate with embroidered illustration of a woman in an orange patterned dress with arms raised above her head
White porcelain plate with embroidered figure of a person wearing striped socks and holding a jump rope, surrounded by concentric circular stitching
White ceramic plate featuring an embroidered figure in a light blue dress with thin line-drawn arms and head extending upward
White ceramic bowl featuring embroidered figures with blue tops and red polka-dot bottoms dangling over the rim
Diem Chau's ceramic plate featuring two embroidered figures, one in a plain white outfit and one in a lime-green patterned jacket with a long black braided hair trailing down
Embroidered legs in textured grey thread emerge from a white porcelain plate with a red thread trailing downward, by Diem Chau
White porcelain cup with embroidered hands holding a red thread connecting two sides of the bowl
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