Jeila Gueramian: DO YOU WANDER Feb 7th - Feb 28th, 2025

Feb 7th  - Feb 28th, 2025
First Friday Opening Reception, Friday, Feb. 7th, 6-9pm

Practice Gallery is pleased to present DO YOU WANDER a new immersive installation by artist Jeila Gueramian. Merging the tactile warmth of crocheted afghans with the dynamic interplay of light, sound, and kinetic elements.

Gueramian, known for her expansive fiber-based environments, constructs DO YOU WANDER  from a patchwork of found materials, layering history and memory into a sensorial dreamscape. The installation includes elements of  movement and sound, activating the space creating a multisensory dialogue between the handmade and the mechanical. 

Artist’s Bio

Jeila Gueramian is a Brooklyn-based artist best known for her large-scale installations in which she connects and combines handmade or repurposed textiles including afghans and other stuffed objects. Through these installations she seeks to instill in the viewer a sense of immediacy, of being present in the moment, reminding us of how we experienced the world as a child. Her work is characterized by lush textures, bright colors and playful motifs. Gueramian began her career constructing props and costumes for film and theater. On the side, she collected vintage quilts, knits, stitched and crocheted artifacts out of which she fabricated inventive stuffed creatures. Her fantastical stuffed creations soon grew in size, eventually morphing into the elaborate, hand-crafted environments that now constitute her full-time artistic