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Channing Hansen (b. 1972) explores ideas of connection through his abstract knitted forms. He collects, processes, and dyes raw fleece from conservation-bred sheep. After spinning fleece into yarn, Hansen transforms the material into complex forms through knitting, weaving, and felting.
Elaborate computer algorithms dictate his designs, combining craft and computation. By uniting technology with human-made and environmental concerns, Hansen’s work underscores our interconnected place in the universe, whether to the earth itself, an algorithmic world, or the cosmos, and asks us to consider what mark we should leave behind.
Selected group exhibitions: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (2024); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (2022); Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California (2019); Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia (2018); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2018); and Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York (2017). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA (2014). The artist’s work is found in permanent collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Rachofsky Collection, Dallas; the Art Institute of Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Art; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, among others.
