Artist Statement

My work is rooted in repair and lives at the intersection of community building and an individual sculptural practice. In my individual practice, I cobble discarded feminine, domestic, and industrial artifacts into assemblage cyborg figures. Materiality acts as metaphor. Each cyborg tells my story and the story of others. In a society that discards objects and humans, creates war machines, and perpetuates trauma, these hybrid beings stretch upward to the sky and teeter awkwardly into an uncertain future.

Pots and pans, sporting the colors of the 50’s, shiny open mouthed kettles, and orange Home Depot buckets become anthropomorphic limbs, gaping orifices, and skeletal armatures. Tightly bound together with tape and thread, the sculptures alternatively reveal and conceal their vulnerable interiors. Genders morph and swap inside a single body, masculine columns are built from kitchen objects, hardware is adorned with delicate hand woven coverings. Slowing down from the physicality of wrapping with tape, I weave garments, enclosures, and abstract interactions within and around the sculptures. These cyborgs grow internal structure and strength as they become newly autonomous characters. In my world, they embody fragmented and resilient figures of survival.

Artist Bio

Chason-Sokol is an artist living and working in Everett, MA. Her work has been exhibited in Massachusetts and nationally. She holds a BA from Brandeis University and an MFA from Lesley University College of Art + Design. She is the Founder/Director of Arts for Everett, a nonprofit, artist-run, community artspace and nomadic arts organization, an associate member of the Kingston Gallery and she serves as Chair of the Everett Cultural Council.