Two Rooms is proud to announce Present Tense, featuring the work of Kirstyn Hom (b. 1990, San Francisco, CA) and Sibyl Rubottom (b. 1942, New York, NY). Working in textile and book arts, these artists contend with their familial lineages from Guangdong, China and Vienna, Austria. In this exhibition, they bring diasporic materials, forms, and phrases into the contemporary context of the United States. Using experimental craft techniques and dyes from ephemeral plant matter, Hom preserves memory, processes loss, and carves spaces of belonging. Hom’s installations blur the lines between gallery, domestic space, and the natural environment. Rubottom’s six decade career has spanned painting, collage, textile, printmaking, book arts, and letterpress. Her throughline is an inquisitive and assiduous approach to pattern, natural elements, and typography. In Present Tense, Hom and Rubottom reinvigorate materials and memories from the past century to form new tapestries within the walls of Two Rooms.
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Exhibition at Two Rooms Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Curated by Lizzie Zelter
July 11-August 9 2025
and Elsewhere, the first exhibition of the work of Tigercrow Collective (Cat Gunn, Kirstyn Hom, Heige Kim, Jun!yi Min, and naomi nadreau). While the images, videos and sculptures included in this presentation all originate from each artist’s studio, the margins between these works blur opening up occasions for collaboration in the gallery.
and Elsewhere is Tigercrow Collective’s first exhibition together, which ruminates on experiences of longing for home. The word home is not particular, but home is always with elsewhere. Simultaneously specific and ambiguous, “elsewhere” invokes the notion of a place anywhere and here, recalling displacement, precarity, and Asian diasporic memory. Utilizing singular and collaborative artworks, the collective seeks places of refuge through objects that hold memory, materials that preserve touch, and references to ever-changing landscapes. The installation begins to connect these points of belonging to trace a transitory narrative together.
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Exhibition at BEST PRACTICE, San Diego, CA
July 13- August 23 2024
Collaboration with beck haberstroh
avocado dye, iron mordant, cotton, pvc pipes, raw silk, sweat prints, twill tape, vacuum formed panels, wood
There is a myth carried across cultures about trees made up of human heads. In some cases, the heads laugh so hard that they fall to the ground. Here, light projects through vacuum-formed casts of faces. The reflections intermingle with fragmented patterns that are created by natural dye resist techniques and sewn piecework. Fabric, light, and community- three essential elements of ritual- come together to index how people and the natural world imprint onto each other.
Featured in Project Blank’s “Working Title” Show at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, San Diego, CA
January 11-13, 2023
Meiguo* is an installation of sculptures and textiles based on memories from my grandmother’s home. Attempts to grasp the past become a departure for new sensibilities of (be)longing. The drop ceiling of steel wire rope weaves into a grid, which lifts and gathers gestures of mended objects. By blurring relationships between inside and outside, I hope to frame the in-between spaces that I occupy within culture, time, and place. Fabrics soaked with pomegranates, onion skins, lemon juice, and rice are joined through long durational sewing methods. Building up the textile with repetition and pattern explores practices of writing, erasure, and remembering.
*"The word miguk in Korean means 'beautiful country.' Miguk is a transliteration of the Chinese characters Meiguo, which also means 'beautiful country'...Korean people and Chinese people must call America Beautiful in order to speak its name."
-Monica Youn, “Detail of the Rice Chest”
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