Kamonchanok Phon-ngam on the Lower East Side, NYC Photo by: Ryan Teeramate Kamonchanok Phon-ngam is a multi-disciplinary artist and an integral part of the art communities in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side in Manhattan. Her art practice and the ideas that fuel it are wide ranging, deeply personal and frequently visionary. Phon-ngam pushes the medium and methods of fabric and sewing far beyond their traditional associations with craft by infusing them with a contemporary personal narrative as well as shared experiences of life in New York City. Often she uses indigenous materials as a foundation and backdrop to be embellished by the more traditional methods of drawing, collage and a painter's eye for color and composition. The satisfying combination of the historic and the intimate transforms matter into a shared experience of the mundane and the discarnate. Kamonchanok Phon-ngam was born in 1986 and is a Thai artist living in New York City. In 2013 she completed ...