Lydia Kern reclaims natural and mundane found materials to create wayfinders for ineffable experiences. Devoted to each object, she creates metaphoric relationships between disparate materials, carefully sewing, wrapping, and sealing everything together into a new meaning. Her sculptures are narrative structures in which emotion, symbology, mysticism, tragedy, and transcendence echo.
Lydia has been an artist-in-residence at the Corporation of Yaddo, Champlain College, Vermont Studio Center, the Lab Program in Mexico City, and AS220. Originally from Massachusetts and Burlington, Vermont, she lives and works in Queens, New York.