NICOLE SALIMBENE
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RECEIPT TAPESTRY SERIES

2017-2019, materials: receipts, waxed linen thread, jewelry wire, metal
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In this series​, I  use receipts as sculptural material to look at consumption. Working with receipts rolled and bound with wire, the bar codes, product names, and corporate identities are simultaneously hidden and exposed. This material is then beaded together and transformed into tapestries. Historically, tapestries have been a textile art used for communication; here, the tapestries voice the complicated story of contemporary consumerist culture.

What Consumes Me Shroud 

WHAT CONSUMES ME SHROUD TAPESTRY, 2019, 31” x 48” x .5”
WHAT CONSUMES ME SHROUD TAPESTRY, detail
installation view, om Rooney Tribute Invitational, Salve Regina Art Gallery, Catholic University, 2019

Hidden Scroll 

HIDDEN SCROLL TAPESTRY, 2018, 12” W x 84”H x 7”, detail
HIDDEN SCROLL TAPESTRY, 2018, 12” W x 84”H x 7”, detail
installation view, Trawick Prize, HIDDEN SCROLL TAPESTRY, 2018, 12” W x 84”H x 7” D

In the Balance 

IN THE BALANCE TAPESTRY, detail (sold)
IN THE BALANCE TAPESTRY, 2017, 52” W x 24”H (sold)
IN THE BALANCE TAPESTRY, detail (sold)

Code 

CODE TAPESTRY, 2018,24.5” x 30.5 x .1” (framed) (sold)
CODE TAPESTRY, detail (sold)
installation view, CODE TAPESTRY, Hickok Cole Art Night (sold)

© 2020 Nicole Salimbene

  • Works
    • ARTFORUM TAPESTRY SERIES
    • RECEIPT TAPESTRY SERIES
    • AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CONSUMPTION: FIVE SCROLLS
    • DIVINE FEMININE SERIES
    • MAKEUP SERIES: TREMBLING
    • SCAPULAR SERIES
    • KNOWING YOUR WATER
    • MOVED BY WATER SERIES
    • MENDING
    • STUDIES IN INVASIVENESS
    • UNFOLDING
    • COMMUNITY PROJECTS
    • ARCHIVE >
      • STONE TO STONE
      • PROTEST RECEIPTS
      • FIGURES IN CEMENT
      • BOX SERIES
      • FACTORY SHRINE
  • ABOUT
    • STATEMENT
    • BIO
    • CV
  • PRESS
  • NEWS
  • WORKSHOPS
  • CONTACT