BIO
Enne Tesse (Antonella Piemontese) is a contemporary visual artist who uses fabric and found objects to blend several artistic disciplines including installation, sculpture, written word, and social commentary. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally since 1989 including MoMA PS1, LICNY; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; the Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, JP. Solo exhibitions include “Animal Kingdom”, Super Secret Projects, Beacon, NY; “Passage”, Trolley Barn, Poughkeepsie, NY. Group exhibitions include “Time Travelers” and “Undercurrents”, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz; “Unusual Threads”, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT; “Go Figure” and “Off the Charts”, Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY; “Word” and "Intentional Play", Gallery 44, Washington DC. Tesse’s work has been written about in Woven Tale Press, ARTiculAction Art Review, Artscope Magazine, and Asahi Shinbun Tokyo. Images of her work have been published in Vassar Art Review; Rattle Poetry Magazine; Climate Art Collection; Jelly Bucket Literary Journal. Her works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, JP; the Kyoto Costume Institute, JP; the Progressive Art Collection, OH; the Sol LeWitt Collection, CT. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; the Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist Commission Grant; the Arts Mid-Hudson Under-Recognized Artist Award. She holds a BFA from SUNY College at Purchase and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC. She lives in Beacon, NY. Interview in "ARTiculAction Meets Enne Tesse", ARTiculAction Art Review 2022, https://issuu.com/articulaction/docs/bien.ed.22.v1/22
STATEMENT
I view fabric and written words as layers that can offer modifications and transformations, simulate protection and provide concealment. I am interested in repetitive acts, rituals, patterns, rhythms, and the act of reading. I revisit and reimagine familiar objects while challenging the ways we perceive and interact with fabric and written words. Organs and body parts are concepts that inspire my work. I use textiles of natural and synthetic fibers including rope, cord and twine as well as component parts of used book pages. I produce my work through detailed and precise use of the hand. My creative process involves cutting, rearranging, sewing, and collaging. Visual and tactile components are linked in my work. My works generate from the transformative qualities of these functional materials.