Eileen Braun
She/her
Eileen Braun
Regal, 2025
salvaged dressmaker’s pattern tissue, Georgia mill-end fiber, vintage inspired glass dresser pulls. 9”H x12”W x 12”W
Eileen Braun
Gotta Dance, 2025
salvaged dressmaker’s pattern tissue,Georgia mill-end fiber and landscaping baling cord. Found objects metal stand. 21”H x19”W x 12” D
Eileen Braun
Fred, 2025
factory discard dressmaker’s pattern tissue, salvaged Georgia mill-end fiber and landscape baling cord, card-board tubing. 17”H x 8”W x 8”W
Eileen Braun
The Key, 2023
Rattan Reed and Copper oxidizing speciality paints. 51”High x 36” Wide x 13”Deep
Working from her Atlanta studio, Ms. Braun is recognized for her innovative, self-directed explorations of thoughtfully selected materials—porcelain, reed, rubber, encaustic wax, aluminum screen, fiber, reclaimed post-consumer discard, and foil gilding—used in unconventional applications. She challenges the boundaries of what should be included in an artist’s toolkit, reimagining materials for her new purposes.
Eileen Braun
Knit Paper Vessel, 2024
Factory discard dressmaker pattern tissue paper innovative, self-directed explorations of thoughtfully selected materials—porcelain, reed, rubber, encaustic wax, aluminum screen, fiber, reclaimed post-consumer discard, and foil gilding—used in unconventional applications. She challenges the boundaries of what should be included in an artist’s toolkit, reimagining materials for her new purposes. Her latest work involves knitting dressmaker’s pattern tissue accented with gilding foil, which she transforms into large tapestries and vessels with undulating, intricate surfaces. Recently, Ms. Braun gained international recognition for combining the contrasting materials of rattan reed—a traditional basket-making material—and rubber, commonly found in construction. The unexpected fusion of these elements results in sculptures that exude personality and movement. Since 2019, Ms. Braun has been exploring the potential of the pattern tissue, initially using it to texture surfaces and encase her reed forms. By 2023, she embraced the material as her primary medium, knitting fragile 4-inch-wide strips with no tool other than her fingers, that in close inspection reveal the tissue’s inked patterns and instructions. By juxtaposing the undervalued mundane factory waste tissue with precious gold gilding foil, Braun challenges social norms, traditional notions of value and materiality, undervalued labor in the sewing industry, and the preciousness of gold. In these works, the tissue gains new life and value. The large scale of these knitted constructs twists its use from unseen to the forefront. Ms. Braun sees in the finished draped gullies and peaks a reference to natural
innovative, self-directed explorations of thoughtfully selected materials—porcelain, reed, rubber, encaustic wax, aluminum screen, fiber, reclaimed post-consumer discard, and foil gilding—used in unconventional applications. She challenges the boundaries of what should be included in an artist’s toolkit, reimagining materials for her new purposes. Her latest work involves knitting dressmaker’s pattern tissue accented with gilding foil, which she transforms into large tapestries and vessels with undulating, intricate surfaces. Recently, Ms. Braun gained international recognition for combining the contrasting materials of rattan reed—a traditional basket-making material—and rubber, commonly found in construction. The unexpected fusion of these elements results in sculptures that exude personality and movement. Since 2019, Ms. Braun has been exploring the potential of the pattern tissue, initially using it to texture surfaces and encase her reed forms. By 2023, she embraced the material as her primary medium, knitting fragile 4-inch-wide strips with no tool other than her fingers, that in close inspection reveal the tissue’s inked patterns and instructions. By juxtaposing the undervalued mundane factory waste tissue with precious gold gilding foil, Braun challenges social norms, traditional notions of value and materiality, undervalued labor in the sewing industry, and the preciousness of gold. In these works, the tissue gains new life and value. The large scale of these knitted constructs twists its use from unseen to the forefront. Ms. Braun sees in the finished draped gullies and peaks a reference to natural
Eileen Braun
Slow Release, 2024
Factory discard dressmaker pattern tissue paper and gold foil 56” High X 55” Wide
innovative, self-directed explorations of thoughtfully selected materials—porcelain, reed, rubber, encaustic wax, aluminum screen, fiber, reclaimed post-consumer discard, and foil gilding—used in unconventional applications. She challenges the boundaries of what should be included in an artist’s toolkit, reimagining materials for her new purposes. Her latest work involves knitting dressmaker’s pattern tissue accented with gilding foil, which she transforms into large tapestries and vessels with undulating, intricate surfaces. Recently, Ms. Braun gained international recognition for combining the contrasting materials of rattan reed—a traditional basket-making material—and rubber, commonly found in construction. The unexpected fusion of these elements results in sculptures that exude personality and movement. Since 2019, Ms. Braun has been exploring the potential of the pattern tissue, initially using it to texture surfaces and encase her reed forms. By 2023, she embraced the material as her primary medium, knitting fragile 4-inch-wide strips with no tool other than her fingers, that in close inspection reveal the tissue’s inked patterns and instructions. By juxtaposing the undervalued mundane factory waste tissue with precious gold gilding foil, Braun challenges social norms, traditional notions of value and materiality, undervalued labor in the sewing industry, and the preciousness of gold. In these works, the tissue gains new life and value. The large scale of these knitted constructs twists its use from unseen to the forefront. Ms. Braun sees in the finished draped gullies and peaks a reference to natural
Eileen Braun
Sandy Shore, 2024
factory discard dressmaker pattern tissue paper and gold foil gilding 72” x 62”
innovative, self-directed explorations of thoughtfully selected materials—porcelain, reed, rubber, encaustic wax, aluminum screen, fiber, reclaimed post-consumer discard, and foil gilding—used in unconventional applications. She challenges the boundaries of what should be included in an artist’s toolkit, reimagining materials for her new purposes. Her latest work involves knitting dressmaker’s pattern tissue accented with gilding foil, which she transforms into large tapestries and vessels with undulating, intricate surfaces. Recently, Ms. Braun gained international recognition for combining the contrasting materials of rattan reed—a traditional basket-making material—and rubber, commonly found in construction. The unexpected fusion of these elements results in sculptures that exude personality and movement. Since 2019, Ms. Braun has been exploring the potential of the pattern tissue, initially using it to texture surfaces and encase her reed forms. By 2023, she embraced the material as her primary medium, knitting fragile 4-inch-wide strips with no tool other than her fingers, that in close inspection reveal the tissue’s inked patterns and instructions. By juxtaposing the undervalued mundane factory waste tissue with precious gold gilding foil, Braun challenges social norms, traditional notions of value and materiality, undervalued labor in the sewing industry, and the preciousness of gold. In these works, the tissue gains new life and value. The large scale of these knitted constructs twists its use from unseen to the forefront. Ms. Braun sees in the finished draped gullies and peaks a reference to natural
Eileen Braun
Untitled, 2020
Rattan reed, Encaustic Wax, Dressmaker's pattern tissue, cotton string and adhesive. 40H x24W x14
I create biomorphic organisms that appear to be communicating human-like emotional needs (nurture). These newly formed organisms represent a new questionable species conjured in my studio by cross-breeding insects, birds, fish and vegetation. Their skeletal hulls revealing germ, the pending emergence of new life from chrysalis. The ectoplasm now peeling away from the dystopian structure, miraculously composed of metal, revealed (x-rays).
Eileen Braun
Swoosh, 2019
Rattan reed, Encaustic wax, Specialty paints, Dressmaker's pattern tissue paper, adheasive and cotton string. 37H x25W x23D
I create biomorphic organisms that appear to be communicating human-like emotional needs (nurture). These newly formed organisms represent a new questionable species conjured in my studio by cross-breeding insects, birds, fish and vegetation. Their skeletal hulls revealing germ, the pending emergence of new life from chrysalis. The ectoplasm now peeling away from the dystopian structure, miraculously composed of metal, revealed.
Eileen Braun
AFloat, 2017
Rattan Reed, Encaustic Wax, Dressmaker's Pattern Tissue, Adhesive and Cotton String. 32H x21W x15D
I create biomorphic organisms that appear to be communicating human-like emotional needs (nurture). These newly formed organisms represent a new questionable species conjured in my studio by cross-breeding insects, birds, fish and vegetation. Their skeletal hulls revealing germ, the pending emergence of new life from chrysalis. The ectoplasm now peeling away from the dystopian structure, miraculously composed of metal, revealed .
