Jessie Henson: In The Project Room: See What the Sun Thinks
Opening Thursday, June 22 6-8pm
New York-based artist Jessie Henson will make her Broadway debut with See What the Sun Thinks, an exhibition of new works in our Project Room.
Working with an industrial sewing machine and gold leaf on paper, Henson approaches her abstractions with as much muscle as grace. As the tightly nestled and brightly colored thread accretes across the surface in clusters, the paper buckles and contorts adding a sculptural dimension that is echoed by the reflectivity of the metallic leafing.
Henson is a subtly clever colorist as well, at times situating slight tonal variances side by side or leaving considerable swaths of the paper unsewn. A group of works using primarily black thread on black paper reinforce this disciplined aspect of her work, encouraging a totalizing, topographical effect.
Taken together, this body of work serves as a concise introduction to Henson’s practice and her particular inversion of painterly abstraction—one that is refracted through a prism of both craft and industrial manufacture.
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Jessie HensonNocturne (Dark was the Night), IV, 202312, 18, and 24k gold on handmade paper22.5 x 18.75 x 2 inches framed
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Jessie HensonNocturne (Dark was the Night), V, 202324k gold with polyester and rayon thread on paper22.5 x 17 x 2 inches framed
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Jessie HensonNocturne (Dark was the Night), II, 2021polyester and rayon thread on handmade paper22.5 x 18 x 2 inches framed
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Jessie HensonNocturne (Dark was the Night), 2020polyester and rayon thread on handmade paper22.5 x 18 x 2 inches framed
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Jessie HensonNocturne (Dark was the Night), III, 2023polyester and rayon thread on handmade paper22.5 x 18 x 2 inches framed
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Jessie HensonBurden of Freedom , 202312, 18, and 24K gold with polyester and rayon thread on paper44.5 x 34 x 3 inches framed
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Jessie HensonYou Are Many All on Your Own, I, 202324K gold with polyester and rayon thread on paper35.5 x 26.25 x 3 inches framed
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Jessie HensonYou Are Many All on Your Own, II, 202312, 18, and 24K gold with polyester and rayon thread on paper35.5 x 26.25 x 3 inches framed
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Jessie HensonYou Are Many All on Your Own, IV, 202324K gold with polyester and rayon thread on paper35.5 x 26.25 x 3 inches framed
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Jessie HensonNocturne (pink ones), 2023polyester and rayon thread on handmade paper14 x 20.5 x 2 inches framed