Karyl Sisson
Karyl Sisson (b.1948) is a fiber artist originally from Brooklyn, NY. Using recycled or repurposed materials (like old cloth tape measures, wood clothespins, vintage paper drinking straws and vintage zippers), she creates wall art and sculptural forms. Sisson says, “My practice is a means for exploring the physical and psychological properties of holes, cavities, insides and outsides. I’m influenced by the beauty and simplicity of ancient, indigenous, and animal architecture, organic growth, and patterns found in nature and in the nature of man.”She holds a BS from New York University and received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work is in numerous private collections as well as the collections of the Museum of Arts and Design, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Racine Art Museum, and the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of Art.
![Karyl Sisson, Dizzy, 2016. Vintage paper drinking straws and polymer](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Sisson-Dizzy.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, V (pink), 2016. Vintage paper drinking straws and polymer](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Sisson-V-pink.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, Sunny Side Up, 2016. Vintage paper drinking straws and polymer](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Sisson-Sunny-Side-Up.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, Straw Suites (Pepsi II), 2016. Vintage paper drinking straws](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Sisson-Straw-Suites-II.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, Straw Suites (III), 2016. Vintage paper drinking straws](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Sisson-Straw-Suites-III.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, Faux Pots (Salsa Sets), 2015](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Salsa_Shot_Faux_Pots_2015-scaled.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, In Stitches, 2015](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/In_Stitches_2015.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, Puff IV, 2015](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Puff_IV_2015.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, Growth II, 2014, Fissures & Connections, Craft in America](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Growth_II_2014.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, Reaching Out, 2013, Craft in America](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ReachingOut_2013.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, Looped, 2013](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Looped_2013.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, Untitled, 2012](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Untitled_2012-scaled.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, Straw Skyline, 2011](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Straw_Skyline_2011-scaled.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, Heavy Hearted, 2001](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Heavy_Hearted_2001_web_o.jpg)
![Karyl Sisson, Faux Pots, 1997, Tape Measures](https://www.craftinamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Sisson-Karyl_measuring-tap.jpg)