A contemporary studio artist, Adrienne Sloane absorbs and translates current events into multifaceted and deeply felt constructions that reflect both her own moral universe as well as the ethos of the day. Having begun her career as a sculptural knitter, she remains mindful of the rich historical context of that medium. More currently, while continuing to draw from a fiber toolbox, she increasingly incorporates techniques of new media to address the timely yet universal issues that make up the body of her work.

Sloane has work in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Fuller Craft Museum, the Goldstein Museum of Design and the Kamm Collection as well as private collections. Besides exhibiting and teaching internationally, she has also worked on economic development projects with indigenous knitters in Bolivia and Peru. Sloane’s political performance art piece The Unraveling was on view at 13FOREST in 2020. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and works out of her studio in Lexington, Massachusetts.

I am a mixed media artist with a focus on fiber techniques. Using iconic imagery, my work is a visceral response to the moral and political landscape of the day. By visually addressing the frayed and unraveled places around me, my work seeks to promote thoughtful dialogue about critical questions as we navigate the difficult times we live in.