Oriane Stender

Based in Brooklyn, New York, American artist and writer Oriane Stender’s diverse influences and affinities include Pop, folk, and outsider art, textiles, and the political, cultural, and visual culture of her childhood growing up in San Francisco and Berkeley, California in the 1960s and 70s. She works with a variety of materials to critique material consumption, finding a balance between the stimulating ways of conceptual art and the visceral qualities of craft.

Throughout her practice since the 90s, Stender has been weaving with found objects and materials of cultural and personal relevance, including US currency, books, pop art reproductions, photographs, and newspapers – focusing on the handmade acts of writing, drawing, cutting, weaving, and stitching. She encourages viewers to slow down and experience these mundane objects that are exchanged frequently in daily life, but are not necessarily considered for their broader implications around cultural, social, economic, and political patterns of circulation and narrative symbolism.

Stender’s work has been exhibited widely throughout the US and internationally and is in over 100 private collections. She studied at San Francisco Art Institute and UC Berkeley and has been referred to as ‘the secret love-child of Anni Albers and Andy Warhol’.