Retrospective of fiber artist opens at Brooklyn Museum
Institutionalized for more than three decades and largely deaf and mute, Judith Scott found her voice through art, forming intricate sculptures of yarn, fabric and other fibers tightly wrapped around an array of found objects.
Born with Down syndrome, the late artist is getting her first solo museum exhibition in the United States. “Bound and Unbound” opens Friday at the Brooklyn Museum featuring 60 of her cocoon-like works.
But the honor would not have fazed Scott, who died in 2005 at 61. It was the creative process — not accolades — that engaged her.