Channing Hansen

Channing Hansen presents a comprehensive survey of works from across his practice alongside new ones, highlighting the evolution in theme, composition, and material. Hansen’s intricate fiber works tether the natural world to the manmade, dyeing, carding, and spinning woolens by hand while leaving their final weave patterns to algorithms and formulas, creating vibrant works at the intersection of man and machine.

About the artist

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 and weaving. Elaborate computer algorithms dictate his designs, combining craft and computation. In uniting technology with manmade 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.