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来自美国亚特拉大的艺术家HENSE最近在华盛顿特区搞一项大创作。他将一个历史悠久，但即将拆除的教堂用喷雾器满满喷上一遍，喷出了绚丽的抽象画作。在街道上为人们上演了一个惊人同时单纯的艺术之作。

” Labeling an artist who floats seamlessly from graffiti tags to 1,200 square foot murals to precise fine art drawings is a foolish game. However, HENSE’s gestural splashes and scribbles certainly bring to mind abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Willem de Kooning. For them, and for HENSE, painting is an encounter between the artist and the canvas. The works take on a life of their own in the process. Remarkably, that often requires re-doing, re-painting, or destroying major portions of the painting during the course of its construction. Often several layers lie underneath each finished product, adding literal and figurative depth to his paintings. ‘I generally work on things in a very instinctive way. I paint, spray or draw shapes and marks, then decide on what stays and what goes. I try to never be afraid to paint over something or make changes, allowing breakthroughs to the other side. Sometimes the part you hate the most about a painting becomes the most layered and interesting area once you’ve destroyed it.’ His process and product is a unique battle between the beauty of fine art and the bricolage of the street. The works that result from this unfolding do not serve as an interpretation, but rather as a presentation—an unconditional gift, an invitation with no destination. HENSE’s manic marks, scribbles, drips and splashes produce an agitated tangle of shapes, symbols and figures that offer the viewer a unique and strangely peaceful platform for the eyes and mind. His slick stylizing may send observers on a roller coaster ride of emotions, perturbed to peaceful, angry to inspired, always travelling at the command of the individual’s own subconscious collection of experiences.”’

Ted Elmore – RVA News

About the Artist

An Atlanta native, Alex Brewer (better known as HENSE) has been working as a visual artist for almost two decades. His free-form paintings and public mural installations incorporate a combination of lines, shapes and organic forms. His work has been described and fluid and playful, and as an explosion of pastels.

HENSE launched his career in the 1990s painting walls and writing graffiti in and around Atlanta. By 1999, he had achieved what is known as “all city status,” because his work could be found in almost every neighborhood in Atlanta. In addition, HENSE has produced exterior works across the U.S, and abroad in Spain, France, Japan, Taiwan and Mexico.

As part of his continuing efforts to work amidst the urban landscape, HENSE has adopted a variety of innovative techniques, realizing art in public spaces by means of print-making, painting, and art installations.

For inquiries regarding the work or to obtain pricing and commission information, exhibition opportunities, installation or mural proposals, please use the contact section of this site.

HENSE currently lives and works in Atlanta GA.