About

Esther Traugot’s installations include crocheted wrappings in and around found natural objects with hand-dyed golden yarns, eliciting both a vibrant warmth and intimacy with her objects, bringing attention to their fragility and implying an intrinsic value. Touching on narratives both personal and universal, she investigates a personal relationship with the natural world. Her experiences growing up very close to nature in the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970’s amidst an idealistic farming community influence her interest in the dichotomies in seeing oneself as an intrinsic part of nature and living in the modern world.

Since receiving her BFA from the University of California Berkeley in 2005, and her MFA from Mills College in 2009, she has shown extensively in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Her work has been exhibited in the Bay Area, in L.A., New York, Paris, and Columbia, at venues such as the Berkeley Art Center, Bedford Gallery, Palo Alto Art Center, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Brea Art Center, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Samek Gallery in PA, Kathryn Markell in Chelsea, NY, and overseas in the Paris Art Fair, and Floriligio in Bogota. She has been commissioned for the permanent collections of Neiman Marcus in Walnut Creek and Beverly Hills, and for private clients as well.

Traugot has been featured in Mills quarterly magazine, and her work has been the subject of inspiration for poet Randall Potts’ “Fable” in his book Trickster. This poem became the inspiration for “Gilded Tree”, a solo flute performance based her crocheted creations, by musical composer John Liberatore at the University of Notre Dame and Grammy Award winning flutist Molly Barth at the Blair School of Music.

Esther Traugot is represented by Muriel Guepin Gallery in NY, and Chandra Cerrito Art Advisors in the Bay Area, CA, and currently lives and works in Northern California.