Jessie Henson’s sewn works at Tribeca’s Broadway Gallery resemble elements of the natural world – water, wind smoke, arial overviews of landscape, or segments of the atmosphere – yet remain fully and enticingly abstract. The suggestion of movement created by curving masses of stitches is made complicated by rips in the paper support, torn in the process of repeated handling on Henson’s industrial sewing machine. Further evidence of the process of making appears in holes pierced by a needle but not filled with thread, a device which adds shadow and patterning. Contingent yet complex, Henson’s compositions arrest the eye with their dynamism. (On view through Dec 14th).
