MARILYN HENRION www.marilynhenrion.com marilynhenrion@mac.com
ABOUT THE ARTIST
A graduate of Cooper Union and a lifelong New Yorker, Marilyn Henrion is included in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. Her award-winning works included in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. and abroad. The works, in major corporate, museum, and private collections, including the Museum of Arts & Design in New York, the Newark Museum, Newark NJ, the International Quilt Study Center Museum, Lincoln, NE, the U.S. Embassy in Pnom Penh, Kaiser Permanente, Lucent Technologies, Avaya Corporation, Carnegie Abbey Country Club, Portsmouth, RI, and others, have also been featured in numerous publications, including "Women Designers In The U.S.- 1900-2000", published in 2001 by Yale University Press. Among the grants she has received, was one awarded in 1996 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.
ABOUT THE WORK
In the works of Marilyn Henrion, the medium IS the message. The artist celebrates that irregular and intimate quality of things made of the human hand. Applying contemporary aesthetic sensibilities to traditional textile techniques, and combining them with modern technologies, Henrion transforms the medium into a vehicle for sophisticated visual expressions with strong graphic impact. About her work, art critic Ed McCormack writes: “This major American artist is one of precious few who have taken the textile medium far beyond its brief popularity during the feminist era and continued to broaden its possibilities and elevate it to the highest level of contemporary mainstream aesthetics.”
Her latest series of work, entitled COMPLEXITY, is inspired by the natural world. The mixed media works are created by printing her digitally manipulated photographs on cotton fabric, adding a layer of depth and animation to the surfaces by hand quilting with silk thread. The works find resonance in the scientific theory of Complexity, as well as in poetry.
“As we begin to understand complex systems, we begin to understand that we’re part of an ever-changing, interlocking, non-linear, kaleidoscopic world…….The elements always stay the same, yet they’re always re-arranging themselves. So its like a kaleidoscope: the world is a matter of patterns that change, that partly repeat, but never quite repeat, that are always new and different.”
William Bryan Arthur, Director of the Santa Fe Institute
“Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.”
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
PAST NOHO EXHIBITS
2010 Soft City: Solo Exhibition
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Cornwall Rock (triptych) 50" x 63" Mixed media 2011
Green Sea (triptych) 50" x 63" Mixed media 2011
