For L.A.-based artist Channing Hansen, the felling of a century-old eucalyptus tree in his backyard in summer proved to be the catalyst for his latest body of work, “Entanglements” a vibrant series of woven paintings created via an algorithm of his own design, now on view at Marc Selwyn Fine Art in Beverly Hills.
A polymath with a penchant for delving deep into whatever fascinates him, Hansen found himself engrossed with a white fungus threaded within the newly cut tree stump, and then he went much, much deeper.