Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, HENSE is a visual artist who has been applying paint to surfaces for almost two decades. He creates free-formed paintings and public mural installations using a combination of abstract lines, shapes and organic forms to produce compositions. The work has been described as a fluid, playful, explosion of pastels. The artist may best be known by his moniker, HENSE that been located in the public realm since he began his career in the early `90`s painting walls and writing graffiti in and around Atlanta.
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HENSE | 2020
Moving between predetermined and spontaneous approaches, the artist may either begin with an initial concept or start out with no preconceived idea, seeking the right compositional arrangement and balance for the final image. For this work, he references paintings created in the studio. The forms and colors have been scaled down while leaving the overall picture plane at a large scale.