Wed 11/16 @ 5:30-7:30PM
Fri 11/18-Fri 12/30
Jessica Pinsky is known in the arts community as the founder/executive director of Praxis Fiber Workshop, a space for creating, teaching and displaying textile-based art. She’s also an artist herself, who learned weaving and dying after first training as a painter.
She’s represented by HEDGE Gallery, which will host her next show, titled I Can’t Remember Anything. Her artist statement tells use she’s drawn to natural fiber “because of its connection to skin and tissue, and its relationship to human experience and memory,” and that her latest body of work evolved from her experience as a new mother of twins during the pandemic.
She based the work on images taken with her cell phone of her living room carpet and scans of her children’s crayon drawings, which she exaggerated by pulling and altering the yarns to create multi-dimensional textures. She says, “I’m continually interested in creating woven structures that challenge the geometry of the grid while allowing me to reflect on the complexities of life.”
The show opens with a preview on Wednesday November 16, followed by a reception from 5-9pm on Friday November 18 during 78th Street Studios’ Third Friday It will be on view through Friday December 30.
hedgeartgallery.com/exhibitions