Stephanie Syjuco

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Stephanie Syjuco (1974--) is mixed-media conceptual artist based in San Francisco. Her works tend to mix the familiar consumer world with natural worlds or imagined future worlds. She frequently uses foam-core board and downloaded images to recreate familiar objects, while distorting or de-purposing them in slightly alien ways. Notable projects include:

"Comparative Morphologies", exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in which dissected and mutated computer mice, cables, and connectors were portrayed in the style of a 19th century botanical print
"Multi-User Interfaces" and "Non-Specific Product Units", a collection of small objects, each built in the familiar woodgrain-and-black-plastic style of late 20th century consumer electronics, but with no apparent function
"Black Markets", a series of re-imagined shops: photographs of marketplaces with the products digitally blacked out, and museum installations with the familiar decor and shelving design of a high-end boutique, but displaying unidentifiable lumps of "merchandise" wrapped in black papier-mache.
Syjuco encourages amateur crochet hobbyists to make "counterfeit" high-fashion handbags entirely out of yarn---including crocheted buckles, zippers, Louis Vuitton logos, etc.

Her work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.