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Alaina EnslenFibrosa (Abstract Encaustic, Fabric and Collage Painting on Linen)2025
2025
$1,750
£1,353.55
€1,540.94
CA$2,512.72
A$2,745.22
CHF 1,438.78
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NOK 18,207.90
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"Fibrosa" made by Hudson Valley artist, Alaina Enslen, in 2025
Encaustic, dyed fabrics, and paper mounted on panel
20 x 16 x 2 inches unframed, sides reveal raw panel and wrapped fabric
Excellent condition, ready to hang
Signed, verso
Cornwall-on-Hudson–based artist Alaina Enslen explores the tension between organic forms and abstract expression through discarded clothing and encaustic monotypes. By fraying, pulling, and cutting fabric apart, she allows it to shed its fixed function and become something raw and expressive. Her encaustic monotypes, made from molten pigmented wax, echoes the earth’s cycles of freezing and thawing, eruption and settling. Each print becomes a record of elemental flux. Enslen layers these materials by fusing them with beeswax and damar resin on birch panel, creating vessels for memory and experience. She is drawn to textiles that evoke personal history or resonate with a collective response. Lately, her palette has shifted to a range of bold earth-tones that, when combined with manipulated strands of thread, highlight a strong understanding of the material’s structure and her passion to collaborate with its spontaneous folds and intricacies
About the artist:
Alaina Enslen expresses her artistic vision through repurposed fabrics infused with beeswax. The Cornwall-On-Hudson based artist collects pieces of textile that evoke memory, tradition, or experience like cherished worn heirlooms, discarded clothes, and religious garments, which are then assembled on panel in an abstract patchwork. Favoring fabrics with a neutral or subtle cool palette, she flattens and frays the material to explore color, form, and lines, reimaging used cloth into something all her own. Enslen has exhibited her work internationally and nationally for over twenty years and is featured in the permanent collections at the West Point Museum and the Paul W. Bryant Museum.
More about the artist:
Alaina Enslen is a mixed media artist residing in Cornwall-On-Hudson, New York, a small village in the Hudson Valley. Having lived in many states across the US as well as in Japan, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, and England, her experiences with diverse cultures, identities, and beliefs throughout her life have deeply influenced her work. Her paintings, encaustics, and collages draw from materials collected from her subjects, memorabilia, fabric, and objects from the environment. Over the last twenty years, her art has been shown internationally and nationally, including an exhibition in 2017 at the Caleidoscópio (University of Lisbon). Her work is part of the permanent collections at the West Point Museum and the Paul W. Bryant Museum. Over the last twenty years, she has received a number of grants and awards including a nomination for Best Temporary Exhibition 2016 from the Portuguese Museological Association for “Bird-watching” (Museu da Ciência, University of Coimbra, 2016) and a Luso-American Development Foundation travel grant for FOLIO 2016. Her most recent series, Remnants, employs encaustic and fabric in bold designs to convey the emotive properties of cloth as experience and memory.
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