Loren Siems

3 Stages of Growing Up: 1st Embryonic, 2nd Gendered Adolescence, 3rd Pubescent

2008

25.5” x 34” x 18”  

wood, yarn, fabric, little girl’s pajamas, glass, menstrual blood, egg shells, milk, batting, string, thread, acrylic and bronze

Attic: Head, 2nd Fl: Heart, 1st Fl: Stomach and Uterus

2011

24.5” x 27.7” x 20”

wood, yarn, fabric, carpet, plastic, crayola clay, nespresso pods

Sex as Gender and Sex as Intercourse

2015

16” x 25.5” x 12”

wood, yarn, sculpy, acrylic, plastic, birth control packs

Collection House contains a series of my collections that I am afforded growing up in a capitalist society. Shoe Room, Materialistic Room, Bunny Room, and Flower Room.

2015

16" x 17" x 11.5"

dollhouse, yarn, shrink dinks, sculpy, fake credit cards, paper clay, acrylic, felt, plastic, fabric

My 1st dollhouse that I played with as a child.  The memories and space are swaddled in yarn.

2017

12" 12" x 8"

yarn, wood, dollhouse

The medications we rely on to make it through the day.

Top right: brain/mental health; top left: allergies; bottom left: digestive issues; bottom right; sex/reproductive issues

2024

26” x 24” x 16”

dollhouse, yarn, pill bottles, mylar, thread, dried flowers, paper, cheese wax, fruit pits, sculpy, lace

2017

108" x 48" x 48"

wood, yarn, acrylic, fabric, thread, dried flowers, 3D prints, plastic, paper compound, water color*

*wall paper by Teresa Derderian, watercolors T & Lo collaboration 

A house made for women by women, T and Lo's House, is a coming-of-age journey through imposed womanhood: from a little girl getting her first dollhouse to a real house. The Dollhouse is decorated from subconscious anxieties, desires, and questions about gender and body politics.

based on the myth of Pandora, the 1st women, releasing evils into the world but keeping hope

2024

16” x 12” x 12”

vintage handbag, fleece, floral wire, floral tape

based on the myth of Pandora, the 1st women, releasing evils into the world but keeping hope

2024

15” x 12” x 12”

vintage handbag, fleece, floral wire, floral tape

Sculpture about the oppression and surveillance of women’s reproductive rights

2022

15” x 18.5” x 15”

father’s briefcase from 1970s, surveillance camera dome, ceramic, paper, felt, thread

2022

12” x 15” x 10”

antique silver, bedsheets, wooden box

Family heirlooms/sacred objects used as a dowery and ways to tie women to the home

Grandmother, Mother, Daughter

Grandmother’s pincushion used for making. Vase made by Mother, My Hair coming from My Mother and Connecting the Two

2024

15.5” x 11.5” x 4”

pincushion, ceramic, hair, felt, thread, plexi-case

Places that hold us to protect and confine from birth into childhood: womb, manger, high chair

2018

38” x 23” x 23”

high chair, bedsheets, beads, paper compound, ribbon

Dandelions, often seen as a weed, sybolize hope, strenght, and transformaiton.

2024

10" x 6.5" x 12"

Glass, felt, ribbon, floral wire and tape

Irises symbolize hope, wisdom, and positive change

2024

17" x 10" x 10"

felt, floral wire and tape, liquor box

Head, Heart, Stomach, Uterus, Feet

2009

67” x 12” x 12”

organic and inorganic material

Tears, Blood, Bile, Menstrual Blood, Scabs

2015

4" x 0.25" x 0.25" each

test tubes, bodily fluids

2009

60” x 8” x 16”(installation varies)

bed sheets, fabric, thread, bronze, wax, wood, paper, acrylic, plastic, ceramic, acrylic, wood, fiberglass, nylon, pigment, rocks, and Mylar

Ways of Seeing

2021

29” x 10” x 11”

wood, yarn, mirror, beads, color swatches, shrinky dink, 3D print

2020

11.5” x 17” x 2”

wooden shadow box, metal, wax, PLA plastic, sculpy, found objects

Shadow Box contains memories, experiences, and keepsakes. Woodpeckers symbolize time to pay attention because significant change is coming.

giant stuffed animal reminiscent of child's blanket fort

2009

108” x 72” 66”

felt, butchers twine, pigment, little girl’s pajamas, wire

2008

39" x 84" x 10"

fabric, thread, human hair, polyful, and pigment

Dichotomy of pop culture toys and treats: scrumptious at first look, but signify over consumption with their cartoon-like dead expressions

2012

cupcake sized

acrylic on ceramic

bite sized fun

2” x 1” x 1”ea

acrylic on 3D prints

16" x 9" x 2"

fabric from my childhood, teenage bra and underwear

2018

34” x 20” x 12”

felt on chicken wire

2008

16” x 16” x 10”

felt, wax, thread, wire, satin