Jill Scipione: Yarn Work and Public Art Projects 2020-2
Above: detail of Prayer Flag for the Ukraine, 2022
Crusoe's Umbrella, 2024, yarn and wire on umbrella frame
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Crusoe's Umbrella, 2024, yarn and wire on umbrella frame
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Scipione, Flowerballs at Eonta Space 2022
Scipione, Prayer Flag for the Ukraine, 2022-23,
9ft x 30ft, yarn, wire
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Scipione, Madonna, approx 100 " x 50" diameter, yarn , wire structural frame 2024-5
Scipione, Flowerballs at Eonta Space 2022
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ALL MY SISTERS at Montgomery St Jersey City, NJ 2021
25 hanging flower balls consisting of over 2,500 crocheted yarn flowers and leaves placed in trees along a 100 foot traffic island next to the Jersey City main post office. The materials included crocheted yarn flowers, aluminum wire, topiary spheres, crocheted yarn hanging straps. The project was funded and commissioned by the Exchange Place Alliance. The project was installed from February 2021 through October 2021. 
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DOTS at TOPPS 2020-21
Dots installation by Jill Scipione at the Topps Building 926 Newark Ave., Jersey City as part of the Drawing Rooms’ Prayers for the Pandemic project. Approximately one thousand four hundred crocheted yarn and wire dots on yarn strings with bells, covering over 40 feet of building-front. Project was funded by the Jersey City COVID-19 Relief Fund.
Dots installation by Jill Scipione at the Topps Building 926 Newark Ave., Jersey City as part of the Drawing Rooms’ Prayers for the Pandemic project. Approximately one thousand four hundred crocheted yarn and wire dots on yarn strings with bells, covering over 40 feet of building-front. Project was funded by the Jersey City COVID-19 Relief Fund.
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MINT MARKET PROJECT Grove St. Jersey City, NJ 2021
Five Flower ball heads commissioned for window design by store owner, Valerie Duardo
Five Flower ball heads commissioned for window design by store owner, Valerie Duardo
.“Woman’s Work” -
“Even though things have progressed, we are still expected to cook, clean, look pretty and take care of children. Crocheting, sewing and even selling clothing can be attributed to the same class of work. It’s also work that would never be taken seriously or tossed for rubbish in the modern art world. Most men would never have the patience for this repetitious work. Yet many of us do this work happily each and everyday. But why is a practice that is just as technical and tedious, with roots dating back to the early 1600s, as any other art form regarded as nothing more than a craft or hobby. You rarely see it in galleries, art shows or museums - mostly in crochet’s distant relative form, Tapestry. Jill’s work pushes the boundaries of the medium itself, the Crochet yarn. These floral crocheted sculptures are a small but proud monument to represent what small acts of kindness, love and community can produce. May they be a daily reminder to us all that nothing great ever started complete and that we are are all but one pixel in a big picture.”
-Valerie Duardo
“Even though things have progressed, we are still expected to cook, clean, look pretty and take care of children. Crocheting, sewing and even selling clothing can be attributed to the same class of work. It’s also work that would never be taken seriously or tossed for rubbish in the modern art world. Most men would never have the patience for this repetitious work. Yet many of us do this work happily each and everyday. But why is a practice that is just as technical and tedious, with roots dating back to the early 1600s, as any other art form regarded as nothing more than a craft or hobby. You rarely see it in galleries, art shows or museums - mostly in crochet’s distant relative form, Tapestry. Jill’s work pushes the boundaries of the medium itself, the Crochet yarn. These floral crocheted sculptures are a small but proud monument to represent what small acts of kindness, love and community can produce. May they be a daily reminder to us all that nothing great ever started complete and that we are are all but one pixel in a big picture.”
-Valerie Duardo
