Details
Sophia Narrett’s Sweet Sounds is an embroidered world where stories of love, desire, and imagination unfold through thread. Using techniques often associated with domestic craft, Narrett creates complex, cinematic scenes filled with figures who seem to move through moments of intimacy, pleasure, and reflection. The piece shifts between lush gardens, performance spaces, and dreamlike encounters, each one blending reality and fantasy. By “painting with thread,” Narrett turns embroidery into a storytelling tool, exploring how emotions and relationships are shown, shared, and sometimes distorted in our digital age. Her work feels both romantic and uneasy, revealing the tension between beauty and vulnerability.
View Sweet Sounds in the McMeen Gallery Spotlight.
About the Artist
Sophia Narrett (b. 1987, Concord, Massachusetts) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She creates large, hand-embroidered narratives that explore themes of desire, intimacy, and identity. Drawing imagery from social media, film, and art history, she stitches together open-ended stories that question how love and sexuality are represented today. Narrett received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. Her work challenges traditional ideas about embroidery, using it as a contemporary, expressive medium for storytelling and self-reflection. Sophia Narrett received her BFA from Brown University, Providence, RI, in 2010, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, in 2014.
Courtesy of Michael Kohn Gallery and the Artist