Bean Gilsdorf says that she likes to test the limits of what is traditionally a humble, domestic medium. She is subverting the idea that cloth comes with a built-in reference to home and to “women’s work”; and combines the cloth and stitches with non-domestic imagery and processes.

Caption: Infantry (2004) 45″ x 45″

Caption: Albatross (2003) 43.5″ x 36.5″