July 24 – September 4, 2021
Twiggs Gallery
254 King Street
Boscawen, NH 03303 USA

Reception: July 24, 1-3 p.m. ET
Artists Talk: August 14, 1-3 p.m. ET

• Award of Excellence Winner: Anne McMillan

Tension: Process in the Making features fiber art and textiles by New Hampshire artists. The artists explore tension – the act of expanding or widening. In a world that has become overstimulated and intense, the artists show that the process of making slows us down to find balance and create broad narratives within the visual aesthetics of fiber art.

JUROR: Jenine Shereos is an American artist who uses textile techniques alongside natural and organic materials to explore the complex and tenuous relationship between humans and the natural world. While her oeuvre includes installation, photography and sculptural works, she is best known for her intricately crafted leaves stitched entirely with human hair.

The work of Jenine Shereos has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and included in exhibitions at Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands; Musée Jean Lurçatet de la tapisserie contemporaine in Angers, France; Museo dell’Arte Fabbrile e delle Coltellerie in Maniago, Italy; Muzeum Miasta Gdyni in Gdynia, Poland; The Montreal Center for Contemporary Textiles in Montreal, Canada; and Long Beach Museum of Art in Long Beach, California. Her work has also been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Frame Magazine, and Mary Schoeser’s publication; Textiles: The Art of Mankind.