Graduation

Kristin Eichenberg’s Graduation, draws upon her family’s quilt-making tradition as she reconstructs the lone-star pattern of her high school graduation quilt. The delicate, hand-stitched union of disjointed materials signifies an anamnesis of things lost, forgotten, and effaced. Graduation composes hundreds of inactive records patterned from the artists’ archives collected over the past decade. Cutting apart the archives establishes a destructive process in reevaluating the sentiment and purpose of the materials to determine what must be included or omitted in the new body of work that is resurrected and preserved. Shedding material and emotional excess from the past, Graduation locates shifting thought patterns and perspectives within the artist’s personal development. The remaining severed fragments piece together estranged narratives that reflect both the fragility and persistence of memories.

Kristin Eichenberg is a visual artist and writer whose work explores themes of authorship, ephemeral matter, and conservation. Originally from Minnesota, Kristin received an A.A.S. degree in Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and is graduating from The New School with a B.S. degree in Liberal Arts and minors in Art and Design History and Museum and Curatorial Studies. She currently works and resides in New York City.