About
Elodie Blanchard is a textile artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is working between art and design. Her expertise in textile from creating and fabricating large scale fiber installations, designing woven and printed textiles, embroidering fiber pieces and sharing her passion for recycling and material with others.
Born in Grenoble, France in 1976, Blanchard studied sculpture at l’Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, fashion at l’Ecole des Arts Appliqués Duperré, where she explored the material intelligence of textiles, and performance at CalArts, where she collaborated with musicians and dancers.
She established her design studio in 2005, and over the course of her career, collaborated with numerous architects, designers, and brands, developing textile collections and working on large scale works for public spaces, institutions, residences, offices, and hotels, in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Houston and abroad. She was most recently “interiors + sources” designer of the year, Artist in Residence at the Museum of Arts and Design and Artist in residence at the lycee Francais in NYC and exhibit her work at the Somerset house in London..
Statement
Through material exploration, repurposing, and a near meditative process of repetition, she transforms the discarded and the commonplace into fantastical objects and playful environments that give us permission to explore our ambiguous relationship to nature, to others, and to ourselves.Her universe is joyful and humorous.
Contact
Studio visit, pricing, commissions: elodie@elodieblanchard.com
1923 8th Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11215