Caroline Silverman

Caroline Silverman is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on the intersection of object, narrative and context. Working predominantly with textiles, she explores how the soft things that people live with reflect the realities and records of their experiences. In the process of exploring what draws people to their objects, she has made quilts, writing, embroideries, tools, poetry, garments, books and paintings to help her better understand this relationship. In her work she contemplates how these objects are often made with the intention to provide comfort and protection, and strives to extend these gestures to her collaborative work and teaching. Caroline’s recent research has delved into the tactile and intimate relationship between textiles and the body, specifically looking at quilts and embroidery as an extension of memory and embodied experiences. She thinks this relationship is particularly important to consider in analog and digitized ways.

Born in Newburyport, MA, she earned her BFA in Textiles from RISD in 2018 with dual concentrations in Literary Arts Studies and Gender, Race and Sexuality. Her work has been exhibited at the Burroughs & Chapin Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Emily Harvey Gallery, Dedee Shattuck Gallery and at The Yard, among others places. Her work has been published in Quiltfolk Magazine (2023), A Form of Perpetual Caress (2020) and Objects as Texts in conjunction with Brown University (2018). Caroline currently maintains a multidisciplinary studio practice in New York, NY.

More of Caroline’s work can be found at carolinesilverman.com.