Goings on at Russell Janis Projects
Haptic Memory
Natalie Baxter, Ellen Dynebrink & Mariana Vidal‑Escabi
Opening Reception/ Artist Talk Wednesday Sept 17, 5-8pm, 2025
Russell Janis Projects 292 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn
A New York Textile Month Event
Haptic Memory brings together the works of artists Ellen Dynebrink, Mariana Vidal‑Escabi, and Natalie Baxter. Each engaging in the traditions of textiles, re-configuring by methods of quilting, printing on, repurposing, shaping fabric into form – adding new layers of history, context and conversation.
A New York Textile Month event, this exhibition and artist talk explores how materiality, memory, and identity intersect in their practices. From Dynebrink’s use of textile remnants and transformative processes, to Vidal-Escabi’s participatory works exploring cross-sensory translations, generational memories, and the language of adornment, and Baxter’s bold, soft sculptures which reimagine domestic symbols and gendered labor. Each artist reclaims the everyday challenging cultural narratives and create intimate, critical dialogues through their chosen materials.
Please join us for the exhibition reception and artist talk Wednesday September 17, 5-8pm. Artist talk at 6:30 pm, moderated by Janis Stemmermann.
About the Artists
Mariana Vidal-Escabi (b. 1977, San Juan, Puerto Rico) earned a BA from Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Colombia, and a double major MFA with honors in Fashion Design and Fashion Print Textile Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. She has participated in exhibitions at Hunterdon Art Museum in 2025, Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, New York, in 2018 and 2019; Baxter Street Camera Club, New York,in 2019; Stand Out Prints at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN in 2018. Vidal-Escabi had a solo exhibition of her textile work in 2021 in New York City and at De Bouwput Gallery in Amsterdam, NL, in 2023. Her work is part of the MoMA and SFMoMA library collections. Lives and works in New York City.
Natalie Baxter (b. 1985, Lexington, KY) received her MFA from the University of Kentucky in 2012 and a BA in Fine Art from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, universities, and fairs internationally with recent shows at Denny Dimin Gallery in both New York and Hong Kong, The New York Historical Society, The Torrance Art Museum, and Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm. She has been an artist in residency at the Wassaic Project, Stove Works, a fellowship recipient at the Vermont Studio Center, IASPIS grant recipient at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, Sweden, New York State Council for the Arts grant recipient, and twice awarded the Queens Art Fund Grant. Press for Baxter’s work includes, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, and Bomb Magazine.
Ellen Dynebrink (b.1986) is a textile artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2017 Ellen received an MFA in Textile Art from HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, and in 2014 a BFA in Textile Design from The Swedish School of Textiles. Between 2019-2020 she undertook studies at the post-master class Research Lab CRAFT! at Konstfack, University of Art, Craft and Design. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally; Format Gallery (Oslo), Konstepidemin(Gothenburg), Charlottenborg Kunsthall (Copenhagen), 3e våningen/GIBCA Extended(Gothenburg), Gustavsberg Konsthall (Värmdö), Nina Sagt Gallery (Düsseldorf).