Stephanie Syjuco is mixed-media conceptual art

Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...

ist based in San Francisco. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA 1995) and Stanford University (MFA 2005). Her works tend to mix the familiar consumer world with natural worlds or imagined future worlds. She frequently uses foam-core board and downloaded images to recreate familiar objects, while distorting or de-purposing them in slightly alien ways. Notable projects include:

• "Comparative Morphologies", exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art
  Whitney Museum of American Art
  The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
  
  , in which dissected and mutated computer mice, cables, and connectors were portrayed in the style of a 19th century botanical print
• "Multi-User Interfaces" and "Non-Specific Product Units", a collection of small objects, each built in the familiar woodgrain-and-black-plastic style of late 20th century consumer electronics, but with no apparent function
• "Black Markets", a series of re-imagined shops: photographs of marketplaces with the products digitally blacked out, and museum installations with the familiar decor and shelving design of a high-end boutique, but displaying unidentifiable lumps of "merchandise" wrapped in black papier-mache
  Papier-mâché
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• Syjuco encourages amateur crochet
  Crochet
  Crochet is a process of creating fabric from yarn, thread, or other material strands using a crochet hook. The word is derived from the French word "crochet", meaning hook. Hooks can be made of materials such as metals, woods or plastic and are commercially manufactured as well as produced by...
  
   hobbyists to make "counterfeit" high-fashion handbags entirely out of yarn---including crocheted buckles, zippers, Louis Vuitton logos, etc.

Her work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...

 and the Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...

 in New York City

New York City

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External links

• Www.stephaniesyjuco.com
• Www.stephaniesyjucowordpress.com
• Shadowshop project at SFMOMA
• Counterfeit Crochet Project
• Young artists on the verge. San Francisco Chronicle article