Kent henricksen biography

 Kent Henricksen is an artist best known for embroidered paintings and immersive installations. Henricksen creates faux style period rooms where scenes of light-hearted innocence become dark vignettes of sadism and emotional aggression, bad dreams layered overtop the surface of good ones.

Henricksen's work constructs a field of surfaces: architecture becomes pattern, pattern gives way to framed canvases, which in turn become places for threaded drawing. He lives and works in New York City and Cold Spring, NY.

  His work has been the focus of numerous solo and group museum exhibitions including the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach,  The Gold Standard (2006) and Greater New York at PS 1/MOMA; ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland; Crafty, curated by Lisa Tung, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, at the Museum of Art and Design, New York.

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