Lena Wolff
Lena Wolff’s recent collaged-paper work is based on variations of early American quilt-making patterns. Her creation of these geometric abstractions is labor-intensive, tactile, and meditative.
“My practice is informed by folk art, anthropomorphic fables, animism, early American craft traditions and the natural world...Many of the collages make a connection to narrative textile traditions that have a lineage of carrying encoded messages and telling symbolic stories...I relate to the notion of drawing and painting as a magical practice and to the idea of animism –the belief that animals, plants, and even natural phenomenon embody the same or greater soul or spirit as humans.”
A recipient of an artist grant from the Zellerbach Foundation, Wolff received her BA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and an MFA in Printmaking from San Francisco State University. Her work has been shown at the Legion of Honor Museum, Headlands Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, and Kala Gallery, amongst others. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Kala.
