Website: korissa-frooman.com
Instagram: @korissafrooman
Korissa Frooman is a Brooklyn-based anti-disciplinary artist whose practice exists between sculpture, fashion, and material memory. A graduate of Parsons School of Design (BFA, Fashion Design, 2022), Frooman constructs poetic objects that live at the edge of containment and collapse—merging softness with structure, memory with form. Her background in textile construction and patternmaking anchors her visual language, while her conceptual investigations drift into the spaces of touch, care, and impermanence.
Frooman’s work speaks through material contradiction: vegan sausage casings meet chiffon, copper meets latex. These pieces are often sewn, suspended, or burned—gestures that reflect both domestic ritual and corporeal transformation. She approaches memory as something physical: something that can be stitched, scorched, and held. In fall 2025, Frooman will begin her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London.
Her recent exhibitions include Echoes: The 21st Annual Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition (Main Line Art Center, 2024), Dining on the Stars and Container (A Space Gallery, NY), High in Fiber (Abington Art Center, PA), and the upcoming Echoes of the Earth: Environmental Art at Bushwick Gallery. She is a recipient of the 2024 Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art, and her work has been featured in Art Seen, New Visionary Magazine, and Arts to Hearts Studio Visit.
Featured Artwork
Title: Hanging by Threads
Year: 2024
Medium: Bioplastic, chiffon, thread, copper
Dimensions: 65″ x 64.5″ x 3″
Price: $10,000
Status: Original, 1 of 1
Exhibition Information
This work is presented as part of May 2025: Echoes of the Earth – Environmental Art, curated by Mekhi Deleon. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices challenge conventional approaches to environmentalism, emphasizing texture, transformation, and reclamation.
Hanging by Threads captures the tension between fragility and resilience. Using bioplastic, chiffon, and copper, Frooman builds a suspended form that both resists and embraces collapse. The work speaks to the transitory nature of the body and the landscape alike—how they stretch, scar, and adapt over time. By threading care and decay into a single sculptural gesture, Frooman reminds us that sustainability is as much about emotional stewardship as ecological survival.
Exhibition Dates: May 1 – May 8, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 1 | 6 PM – 8 PM
Location: Bushwick Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
(for accessibility: full transcript below)
Suspended between tension and tenderness, Hanging by Threads is a meditation on fragility.
Korissa Frooman weaves bioplastic, chiffon, and copper into a surface that shimmers between strength and unraveling. Light catches on the delicate layers, revealing a skin of stitched memory—patched, stretched, and quietly resilient.
Look closely—the material almost dissolves into air. Threads strain against their own weight, creating a landscape where care and collapse coexist.
Frooman’s practice draws from both domestic ritual and bodily transformation, using humble materials to build structures that feel both intimate and impermanent.
Hanging by Threads asks us to consider what holds us together—and how easily it might slip through our grasp.