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Judith Scott - Bound and Unbound at the Brooklyn Museum. Exhibition opens Friday, October 24, 2014
Judith Scott's work is celebrated for its astonishing visual complexity. Born with Down syndrome, Scott was also largely deaf and mute.
Judith Scott’s career spanned just seventeen years. She developed a unique and idiosyncratic method to produce a body of work of remarkable originality. Often working for weeks or months on individual pieces, she used yarn, thread, fabric and other fibers to envelop found objects into fastidiously woven, wrapped and bundled structures. This is the first comprehensive U.S. survey of Scott’s work
