Press Releases

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Exhibition Catalogs

:: Adaptation: Artists Respond to Change
browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT, 2021. group exhibition

:: Volume 50: Chronicling Fiber Art for Three Decades
browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT, 2020. group exhibition

:: art + identity: an international view
browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT, 2019. group exhibition

:: Blue/Green: Color/Code/Context
browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT, 2018. group exhibition

:: Still Crazy After All These Years... 30 Years In Art
browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT, 2017. group exhibition

:: Considering the Kylix
Peters Valley Craft Center, Sally D. Francisco Gallery, Layton, NJ, 2014. group exhibition

:: Retro/Prospective: 25+ Years of Art Textiles and Sculpture
browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT, 2012. group exhibition

:: Stimulus: art and its inception
browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT, 2011. group exhibition

:: 10th Wave III
browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT, 2009. group exhibition

:: Contemporary Katagami: Works by Jennifer Falck Linssen
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2008. solo exhibition

:: Mystery Contained: Contemporary Sculptural Basketry
Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, 2007. group exhibition; Cover image

:: All Things Considered IV
National Basketry Organization, Arromont School of Art and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 2007. group exhibition

:: Beyond the Basket
del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2007. group exhibition

:: Selected Works, A Curated Exhibition of Work in Wood & Fiber
del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2007. group exhibition

:: Contemporary Baskets & Fiber Sculpture
del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2006. group exhibition

:: Selected Works, A Curated Exhibition of Work in Wood & Fiber
del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2006. group exhibition

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Books

Thames & Hudson has published Textiles: the Art of Mankind by Mary Schoeser. This huge book celebrates the enduring appeal of textiles across the centuries and highlights contemporary works. Two of my pieces, "Shelter" and "Beauty in the Deep", are featured in this volume. The ISBN numbers are ISBN-10: 0500516456 and ISBN-13: 978-0500516454. Many thanks to both Ms. Schoeser and the collectors, whose art appears in this book.

Gestalten (Berlin, Germany) has published Papercraft 2: Design and Art with Paper in which six of my sculptures, "Comfort", "Order and Chaos", "Crest", "Wind Folds", "Chasing the Curl", and "Sheathe", are featured. (ISBN#3899553330)

Lark Books has published 500 Baskets: A Celebration of the Basketmaker's Art in which two of my pieces, "Wind in the Pines" and "Open Up", are featured. (ISBN#1579907318)

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Publications and Quotes

Surface Design Journal
"Katagami Inversions"
profile by Ginger Knowlton
Fall 2009
Open Surfaces Issue
Volume 34, No 1

"... This process of transference, and of the imagined, is what seems to drive the artist: an exploration between real/physical/tangible and tenuous/ethereal/potential. On one level, there is the dynamic between positive and negative space constructed through paper carving, air and light passing through the small pieces of fiber cut away from a larger whole. But there is also the sweep and curve of a vessel filled with - nothing, but in this sense, everything - all of the potential of the absence of the missing elements. This is where Linssen's sculpture becomes water, or fire, in that essential empty space at once created and surrounded by earth and air elements.

It is a credit to Linssen's vision that she, like all artists must, can see with "new," or unbiased, fluid eyes. Historically, katagami is a means to an end, a pattern, a stencil. But Linssen uses the stencils themselves to make her sculptures, thus interrupting an ancient process and inverting a long-established order and outcome. ...

... As the cliche stands, an artist cannot expect to successfully reinvent the wheel. Rather, she must first learn from what has come before. It seems that, through some lenses, Jennifer Falck Linssen has accomplished both endeavors."

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Los Angeles Times
"Cutting-edge Visions Take Shape on Paper"
preview by Lea Lion; January 31, 2008
If you missed it on newsstands, you can read the article online here.

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Southwest Art Magazine
"Paper Like You've Never Seen It"
profile by Gussie Fauntleroy
December 2007
If you missed it on newsstands, you can read the article online here.

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Review magazine
"How to See the Forest through the Trees" solo exhibition
review by staff
Kansas City, MO
June 2007

"A peaceful hike through nature at any time of year tends to inspire the collector out of each of us. Provided with enchanting gazes into the trees or at the ground below, one is likely to discover shapes, forms and objects that have long gone unnoticed. Many a traveler has filled their pockets with these precious keepsakes for private reflection: the perfection of a seed, the functional beauty of a cocoon, the texture and color of a leaf. Yet, it sometimes seems impossible to take the time to appreciate such things.

Formed out of various papers and precious metals, Jennifer Falck Linssen's sculptures enliven this desire to become enraptured with details. Her delicate handcrafted baskets are created from organically inspired tones, forms and patterns that urge viewers to take the time to experience. Linssen's intricately cut patterns invoke the Japanese katagami processes that were developed as ancient forms of silkscreening to create resist stencils for use in kimono dyeing. In Linssen's work, these stencils are re-contextualized from artist's tools to an art object in its own right. These lattice-like patterned surfaces illustrate a fetish in details that are delicately crafted metaphoric and archetypal forms. The addition of metallic wiring used to create sterling silver cores or to reinforce and bind the papers' outer edges strikes a sense of balance in her work."

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"The intricacy of the paper carving is like a secret treasure hidden in the strong, bold structure of each [vessel]."

-Linda Ligon, CEO & Editorial Director of Interweave Press, Juror, IWC Tony Hacker Award for Excellence in Craftsmanship & New Use of Materials, 2005

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Press Image Use

Winter 2007 - Summer 2009
The Surface Design Association has chosen my work "Beauty in the Deep" as the image to advertise their 2009 Conference Off the Grid. The first exposure to the advertising campaign appears in the Winter 2007 Surface Design Newsletter (Volume 21, No.1). See it here.

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Online Press Links

2010 :: Hand/Eye Magazine by Rebeca Schiller, "Resiliency, Rebirth, Endurance", April 1, 2010

2008 :: American Craft Magazine by Beverly Sanders, "Sculpture in Hand-carved Paper", April/May 2008 hard copy also

2008 :: Los Angeles Times by Lea Lion, "Cutting-edge Visions Take Shape on Paper", January 31, 2008 hard copy also

2007 :: Southwest Art Magazine by Gussie Fauntleroy, "Paper Like You've Never Seen It", December 2007 hard copy also