Henna Vainio

We’re here till 4 today and Glyph is up through May 3. Don’t miss @coffeegundam serving up delicious hand roasted coffee on our front porch till 2! 🫧 Henna Vainio Patterns (3) Glazed ceramic on artist’s pedestal 16 x 4 x 10.5” 2025 Henna Vainio (Finland, b. 1981) earned her MFA from The Slade School of Art, London, and her BFA from Chelsea College of Arts, London. Her solo and two-person exhibitions include Ben Peterson - Henna Vainio, 1599fdT, Mill Valley (2023); Hardstep, Josh Lilley Gallery, London (2019); More Life, Ratio 3, San Francisco (2018); Capital Gallery, San Francisco (2017) and Step of Two, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland (2017). She has also participated in a number of group shows in the UK, Finland and Germany. Henna Vainio’s recent ceramic works focus on language in the form of word stacks. In language, understanding, imagination, and meaning intersect as we read, write, speak, and listen from beginning to end. In Vainio’s word stacks, the linear is disrupted as beginning and end are compressed in spacetime. The message becomes nearly impossible to decipher, but the letters remain with their message becoming nearly infinite. @hvain #hennavainio

Many thanks to our dear bud @bessmakhalaf for the beautiful exhibition photographs. 🍌 Glyph is up through May 3 and we’re open Sundays 11-4 & by appointment. Join us tomorrow for a @coffeegundam pop up from 12-2! ☕️ Glyph features works by: 📎 Sadie Buckner @art_at_thearcsolano 📎 Luis Estrada @niadartcenter 📎 Rochele Gomez @monograph_gomez 📎 Kainoa Gruspe @quinoa__salad 📎 Léonie Guyer @leonieguyer 📎 Klea McKenna @klea_mckenna 📎 Mitzi Pederson @mtzpdrsn 📎 Ben Peterson @newertopographics 📎 J Pendleton @art_at_thearcsolano 📎 Robert Smithson @roberthsminthson.artist 📎 Emma Spertus @emma_spertus 📎 Henna Vainio @hvain 📎 Richard Zimmerman @machocity Featuring thirteen artists from the Bay Area and beyond, Glyph embraces a liminal space which allows subconscious connections to reign and centers gut feeling as a source of poetry, mystery, and magic. Collectively, these artists draw from an enigmatic lexicon of symbols, favoring inscrutable familiarity over anything known or quantified. This intuitive language manifests through a varied approach to material translation that underscores, and celebrates, our innate ability to understand things deeply without having to define them in words. #personalspacevallejo #vallejo #glyph

Big news! Personal Space is back from our (much needed) hiatus! 😌 Join us next Sunday, March 15 (2-5pm) for the opening of ᘜㄥㄚ卩卄. This is our first opening since @village__fm opened up next door and it’s sure to be a party. 🥂 Glyph features works by: 📎 Sadie Buckner @art_at_thearcsolano 📎 Luis Estrada @niadartcenter 📎 Rochele Gomez @monograph_gomez 📎 Kainoa Gruspe @quinoa__salad 📎 Léonie Guyer @leonieguyer 📎 Klea McKenna @klea_mckenna 📎 Mitzi Pederson @mtzpdrsn 📎 Ben Peterson @newertopographics 📎 J Pendleton @art_at_thearcsolano 📎 Robert Smithson @roberthsminthson.artist 📎 Emma Spertus @emma_spertus 📎 Henna Vainio @hvain 📎 Richard Zimmerman @machocity Featuring thirteen artists from the Bay Area and beyond, Glyph embraces a liminal space which allows subconscious connections to reign and centers gut feeling as a source of poetry, mystery, and magic. Collectively, these artists draw from an enigmatic lexicon of symbols, favoring inscrutable familiarity over anything known or quantified. This intuitive language manifests through a varied approach to material translation that underscores, and celebrates, our innate ability to understand things deeply without having to define them in words. Glyph flyer design by Crystal Dawana featuring artwork and font by Ben Peterson. Special thanks to @leahtumerman @amyowen @elimanexetiar @itllcometome @tennyson_woodbridge @meowbiralo_o @g4vinpie @tesar_claire and @clarkeselman for making this show happen! Extra special thanks to everyone who supported Personal Space after we were robbed a few months ago. We are so grateful for our community, and so happy to be reopening! 💚 #glyph #personalspace #vallejo #personalspacevallejo

OPENING SATURDAY, January 17, 5-7 pm Henna Vainio: Opposite Knots Casemore Gallery is pleased to present “Opposite Knots,” Henna Vainio’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition brings together new ceramic word stacks, woven forms, and sculptural wall constructions that transform language into fragile, interdependent structures. These forms fold, trap, and contradict themselves much as words and specific phrases do in everyday life. Vainio’s recent work centers on language as a physical and political material. Words such as win, no, anti-age, and tender change are stacked, repeated, and woven into dense sculptural knots in which meaning becomes unstable. As letters accumulate, they begin to slip away from their original messages, becoming objects in their own right. In these works, language no longer moves forward in a straight line but loops back on itself, creating systems where opposites are embedded within each other and where beginning and end collapse into the same space. In a political and cultural moment defined by zero-sum thinking, where losing is no longer an option and certainty is prized over humility, Vainio’s sculptures give form to language caught in its own traps. These tightly wound, delicate objects do not offer clear messages so much as they expose how meaning is built, undone, and knotted together. 📸 Henna Vainio, Anti-Age, 2025, Glazed Ceramic, 22 x 21 x 21 in.

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Super excited to be included with this stellar line-up of artists, in the exhibition AS IF - THE LIGHT, at 1599fdT, curated by Facundo Argañaraz @facundoexec @1599fdT Opening Friday, June 14. The vernissage is Friday, June 14, 6 - 9 PM 1912 Market Street, San Francisco @larrybellstudio @andrew___chapman @takesada.matsutani @mtzpdrsn @hvain @luciavonsprecher @_alexanderwolf #hotelpupik Endless thanks to Facundo, for outstanding support and vision🙏🏼💎

@casemoregallery “Quantum Foam” now through November 18! Henna Vainio Phillip Maisel Dan Davis Henna Vainio’s recent ceramic works focus on language in the form of word stacks. In language, understanding, imagination, and meaning intersect as we read, write, speak, and listen from beginning to end. In Vainio’s word stacks, the linear is disrupted as beginning and end are compressed in spacetime. The message becomes nearly impossible to decipher, but the letters remain with their message becoming nearly infinite. Henna Vainio, “Moreless”, “Untitled (Siri)”, and “Cosmic Latte”, each Glazed Ceramic, 2023

Summer is almost gone, but it's only starting in the Bay Area! 1599fdT is super excited to open our first summer exhibition with works by Henna Vainio and Ben Peterson. Opening Saturday, August 19, 2 - 5 pm Sat August 19 - Sun August 20, 2 - 5 pm 358 Woodside Ave Mill Valley, CA 94941 Henna Vainio Ribbons (Red), 2023 striped cast plaster 12 x 10 in approx Ben Peterson Untitled (Fresco), 2022 Venetian plaster and pigment on panel 10 x 10 inches approx.

Posted @withrepost • @printclubltd Taken from tightly cropped images of @hvain ‘s sculptures (check ‘em out in her profile) we’ve been emulating the plays of shadow and texture that her plaster casting processes creates. Can’t wait to finish these up and get them to @adjframes for @eabfair framing! ❤️💛💙

Tonight! Posted @withrepost • @_joshlilley Henna Vainio opens her exhibition Hardstep, tomorrow night from 6-8pm 🌈🇫🇮 #hennavainio #hardstep #figure #london #sculpture #joshlilley

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