For the month of October, we welcome Marilyn Henrion to the Green-Mezzanine Gallery!
In celebration of her 93rd year, acclaimed textile artist Marilyn Henrion will be honored with two solo exhibitions in Texas, showcasing 93 of her original hand-quilted and mixed-media textile works. Titled Marilyn Henrion: 93 at 93 – Selected Works Parts I & II, the exhibitions highlight the extraordinary breadth of Henrion’s creative journey—from geometric abstraction to digitally manipulated photographs—capturing nearly a century of vision, experimentation, and mastery.
Henrion’s innovative fusion of traditional hand quilting and contemporary digital technology reflects a lifelong passion for both craft and concept. Her works are grounded in photography—urban landscapes, architectural forms, and the natural world—which are then digitally manipulated and transformed into evocative hand quilted artworks. Whether abstract or representational, each piece is a tactile meditation on memory, place, and perception.
“Although all of the images that I create from my original photographs are manipulated in the computer before I commit them to a work. I am often conflicted about how much abstraction I want to employ. A fascination with detail vies with the emotional component conveyed in the abstraction.”
The tension and duality between the real and the reimagined brings her works to life, inviting viewers into a richly layered world where line, color, and texture vibrate with feeling. The featured image, a hand-quilted cityscape captured at sunrise, encapsulates the artist’s signature style: photographic precision enveloped in abstract rhythm, with quilting lines animating the surface like ripples across memory.
Henrion’s work is included in prestigious museum collections including the Museum of Arts & Design in New York, the Newark Museum of Art, the Racine Art Museum, the International Quilt Museum, and the Central Museum of Textiles in Poland. She is also represented in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. A lifelong New Yorker before relocating to Plano Texas in 2022, her influence has shaped the discourse on fiber as fine art for more than five decades.
A "First Fridays" reception has been scheduled for Friday, October 3. Join us for light bites and meet the artist from 6-8 PM on the second floor of the Eisemann Center lobby.
The gallery is free to view and open to the public every Monday through Saturday from 10am to 6pm and during all public events.
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Artists wanting to be considered for the exhibit can find details at the Eisemann Center website.
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