Hemmings Gallery is pleased to present fiber artist Kristina Foley, whose large-scale felted works invite viewers into lush, tactile landscapes that shift between the familiar and the fantastical. Using raw wool, combed Merino, and wild silks, Foley continues her twenty-year long exploration of feltmaking—an ancient, transformative craft. Her carefully chosen materials engage the senses and highlight the origins and slow processes that shape each piece. For this exhibition, Foley combines wool from a flock of endangered Navajo-Churro sheep near her Western Oregon home with fine Merino from Shaniko Wool Company, an Oregon-based leader in regenerative agriculture and fully traceable domestic wool production. In addition to wool, Foley incorporates rare wild silks—Muga, Tussar, and Eri—from rural India. She further enhances these silks with botanical dyes grown and prepared in her own garden, producing luminous, richly textured surfaces. Foley’s work is grounded in the Latin root of animal—anima, meaning soul or life force. For her, natural fibers are not just materials, but living connections to landscapes, economies, and cultural lineages. Whether wool from endangered sheep or silk from wild moths, each fiber carries the stories of the people and places it comes from. In Foley’s hands, these materials become expressions of interconnection—between ...

Jeff Juhlin is a nationally recognized artist known for his Encaustic / Mixed Media painting work that evokes a meditative and grounded exploration of color, space and mark making. His work is about discovery, the hint of possibility. It’s about the layers, the flow and the strata of things substantive, imagined, physical and implicit. Juhlin works by accumulating layers of material, images and color that make up the whole of a work, then he goes back in to explore, excavate, expose and obscure. The end result is a non-literal visual form, a translation of that experience and process. “Often we see only the surface of things when in reality there are many layers, artifacts, histories, clues that hint of something curious and magical that might lay beneath the surface waiting to be discovered, excavated, explored and experienced. “ He adds, “ My work seeks to reflect a sense of stillness, space and the visual history of time evident in the western landscape. The work alludes to the raw typography and vast space where I live and work. In this environment, time often reveals itself in the form of rock strata created by erosion, wind and water both building up in ...