Lena wolff: forms of forms of forms

August 4 - september 30

Longstanding correlations between quilts, democracy, craft, and civic engagement permeate Lena Wolff’s practice. On site at Local Language, Wolff experimented with carved plaster and layered low-relief wood sculptures based on the geometries of lyric quilt patterns. The patterns represent a visual language often shared between women, passed down for centuries and across communities in our nation’s fraught history.  Wolff’s work gives rise to an interplay of poetically related images – a call and response – emblematic of the interconnectedness of patterns in the universe, the natural world, and the ongoing pursuit of equality.  

Lena Wolff is a visual artist, craftswoman, and activist for democracy. She lives with her wife, artist, teacher, and illustrator, Miriam Klein Stahl and their daughter in the East Bay. On November 12, 2018, Mayor Jesse Arreguin named "Lena Wolff and Miriam Klein Stahl Day" in the city of Berkeley for their work that merges art and civic engagement.