About

Chris Bobin is New York City based artist who uses fabric and the historically feminine craft of sewing to create distinct and impactful works of art. Her pieces draw inspiration from various Americana themes including consumer advertising, restaurant menus and cookbooks, newspaper inserts, directions, pin-ups, movies and pulp fiction, and are created using a treasure trove of materials collected through years of sewing. Using piecing and applique techniques, Bobin's pieces are often finished with her signature black outline, "drawn" with stitched bias tape. 

Bobin's work is more than just beautiful art; it is a contemporary examination of the norms and expectations of femininity, customs and rules of society and gender. By using traditional craft techniques, Bobin challenges the expectations of the medium and brings a fresh, modern perspective to her work. Her art is a true reflection of her unique vision.

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Publications

  • Textile Designs  Ideas & Applications
    Joel Sokolov
    Library of Applied Design  - PBC International, Inc  (1991)

  • Problems: Solutions
    Visual Thinking for Graphic Communications
    Richard Wilde
    Van Nostrand Reinhold Company  (1986)
    Cover Art, featured in the book & created the show poster for The School of Visual Arts/ Master Eagle Gallery

  • Folk Arts of the Americas 
    Harry N. Abrams, Inc. -  (1981)
    featured under “handiwork”

Commercial Work

  • Time Magazine - Album cover for Treasury of Radio Commercials

  • Famolare Inc. - LOTS of stuffed shoes — one of which was featured in Forbes Magazine in an ad for Fortune Magazine

  • Frangelico Liqueur - Ad Campaign — series of costumes for the liqueur bottles

  • Creative Black Book - Costumed sourcebook (pin striped suit) for ad

  • Bank of New York - custom made boxing shorts with embroidered “Bank of New York” label, bunny slipper investment ad

  • Champion Sportwear - vintage basketball jerseys

  • Macy’s - Linen’s Dept - Modern Living Show / “Memphis” quilt

  • Tylenol Calendar - children’s costumes

  • Crown Royal - purple Santa suit

  • Sweet & Low - embroidered leather jacket, boxing gloves & shorts / HBM - Creamer

  • Gap International - embroidered prototypes

  • Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus - Eaves-Brooks / Custom Props

  • Sheraton Suites - Custom Made Towels / Della Femina

  • General Electric - copy of Energizer Bunny / BBDO

  • AT&T - embroidered suit label

  • Fruit of the Loom - stuffed bears, embroidered t-shirts / Grey Advertising

  • New York Production Guide - appliquéd cover for 1991 sourcebook

  • American Express - sampler series / O&M

  • Incentive Magazine - Cover / cross stitched sampler November 1995

  • Penquin, USA - book jacket / Jim Bouton’s “Strike Zone”

  • Conde Nast Traveler - Cover / hand embroidered logo, American flag

  • Bronx Museum of the Arts - emboidered catalog cover - “Women’s Work” in Contemporary Art

  • New York Magazine - Cover / American flag embroidered with Star of David

  • General Foods International Coffees - engineered silk screened dress / Young & Rubicam

  • McGraw Hill - text book cover/ embroidered California flag

  • Bloomingdales - Catalog Cover/ Home Furnishing Sale

  • TBWA Chiat Day NY Christmas card - costumes Taco Bell chihuahua 

  • YES network - appliqued quotes/ bus stop ads, billboards, bus sides

  • Workman Publishing - Teddy Bear Calendar /1998, 99, 2003, 04,05, 06

Film

  • “You’ve Got Mail” - Nora Ephron/ emboidered handkerchiefs

  • “Stepmom” - Hand embroidered quilt

  • “Maid in Manhattan” - Ralph Fiennes’ embroidered handkerchiefs

  • “Beloved” - embroidered dress/ designer Colleen Atwood

  • “Memoirs of a Geisha” - embroidered kimonos

Television

  • Jello Pudding Pops - Little Rascals costumes

  • Secret Deodorant  - School play / flower costumes

  • Carvel Ice Cream - Mother’s Day cake - business suit for baby

  • Hess Gasoline - children’s flight suits / Christmas ad

  • NBC Today Show - embroidered boudoir pillow

  • America’s Next Top Model - appliquéd pillows

  • Murrphy Brown Show - “Tired Ass Honky Ho” needlepointed pillow

  • Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - cross stitched map of the world

Theater

  • Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus

  • Jerome Robbin’s Broadway

  • Rent

  • MJ the Musical

  • Bad Cinderella

Prototypes

  • Warner Brothers

  • Disney

  • Nascar 

  • Target

  • Walmart

  • K-Mart

  • Dan River

  • ExCell Home Fashions

  • Jay Franco & Sons

  • Town & Country Living

  • Franco

  • Martha Stewart Living