OBJECTS.
Material shaped into form — singular pieces and quiet structures across painting, textile, and the work between.
Foundations · 1997–2003
Academic Works, 1997–2003
Where the practice began. Paintings, sketches, garments — early objects that still set the tone for everything I make today. Some of these works are kept. Most exist only in this archive.
Two registers, kept apart on purpose. Paintings and drawings stay in their original color — the work itself was made in pigment, and the pigment is part of it. Photographs of finished garments are rendered in black and white, the way archives are kept: a quiet documentary tone that lets the form, the drape, the texture do the speaking. Iwona Sinderman, in her own work, with one trusted friend.
Fifteen entries in the archive.
Current work is being documented in the studio and will appear here when it is ready.
01 · ~2002
The wheel, oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Untitled. The earliest appearance of the circle that later became the bow.
02 · ~2002
Workshop, oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
Untitled. A ladder, folds of cloth, a wheel — the motifs of the workshop.
03 · ~2001
Branch dress, on the form
Branches, raw linen, the wooden form
Free-form garment from unconventional materials. Second year of design studies.
04 · ~2001
Branch dress, study
Watercolor and ink
The drawing that became the form.
05 · ~2001
Renaissance sleeve, type Sajan
Pencil and gouache
“Inspiration from a chosen historical detail.”
06 · 2000
Night lingerie, after nature
Watercolor and pencil
Two figures, coral motifs spilling across the body.
07
Double tunic with sash
Watercolor and pencil
The tunic is the same fabric as the trouser — a quiet rule.
08
Coral evening, study
Watercolor on cream paper
Short blouse, top, long skirt with godets — pleated or gathered.
09 · ~2002
Caramel column, two views
Suede
Column gown with bolero. Two views.
10 · 2002–2003
Cut suede, Klimt collection
Suede
Blouse with horizontal slashes, paired with a long skirt. From Patchwork — A Travesty of Klimt’s Painting, diploma collection.
11 · 2001
Beige drape, outdoor study
Fluid fabric
Asymmetric draped gown. Two frames shot outdoors.
12 · ~2002
Black evening, sheer yoke
Long evening dress with a sheer striped yoke and contrast cuffs. From the Klimt collection.
13 · 2001
Deconstruction
Pencil sketch and archival frame
“Double dress — top half smooth, bottom half pronounced texture.”
14 · 2001
Sajan — three iterations
Collage — line drawing and photographic fragments
“Inspiration from a chosen historical detail” — the renaissance Sajan sleeve. Three studies of the same idea: how an old shape becomes new cloth.
15 · 2001
Pagoda — inspiration to form
Collage — line drawing and photography
Architecture as garment. From the gold of Shwedagon to the line of the body — a study in how form travels between scales.