Complexity

ISBN: 1470049007

Author: Henrion, Marilyn

Condition: New

Product Description A full color exhibition catalog of Marilyn Henrion's latest series of artworks entitled Complexity, introduced at Noho Gallery in New York City in April, 2012. The catalog includes an insightful essay by art critic, Ed McCormack. These new mixed media works are inspired by the natural world. The works find resonance in the scientific theory of Complexity, as well as in poetry. With this 20th solo exhibition, Marilyn Henrion marks her 80th birthday. Continuing her commitment to applying contemporary aesthetic sensibilities to traditional textile techniques and combining them with modern technologies, the artist celebrates that irregular and intimate quality of things made of the human hand. In this series, she prints her digitally manipulated photographs on fabric, adding depth and animation to the surfaces by hand quilting with silk thread. Constructed with the finest materials and museum-quality craftsmanship, the medium is transformed into a vehicle for sophisticated visual expressions with strong graphic impact. About the Author A graduate of Cooper Union and a lifelong New Yorker, Marilyn Henrion is represented in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art in Washington, DC. Her award winning artworks have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. They are included in major museum, corporate and private collections, including the Museum of Arts & Design in New York, the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, the National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY, the International Quilt Museum, Lincoln, NE, and the U.S. State Department Embassy in Pnom Penh, Cambodia. They have also been featured in numerous publications including "Women Designers in the U.S.- 1900-2000, published by Yale University Press. Among the grants Henrion has received was one awarded by the Artslink Partnership, devoted to fostering excellence in the arts between the U.S. and countries of the former Soviet Union. In 2005, she was awarded a fellowship by the New York Foundation for the Arts.