Denja Harris is a San Diego based artist whose tactile yarn paintings and dimensional works engage traditional and contemporary fiber practices. Her work approaches softness as both material and metaphor, weaving narratives of vulnerability, memory, and transformation. Through labor, intuition, and improvisation, she allows materials to guide the process.
Working with both dead-stock and new yarns, she constructs layered surfaces that blur the line between painting, function and abstraction, exploring how color and texture hold memory and act as sites of connection.
Denja has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside, CA), McDonough Museum of Art (Youngstown, OH), and has an upcoming exhibition at Visions Museum of Textile Art (San Diego, CA). She has also presented workshops and demonstrations at institutions including San Diego City College and Mingei International Museum.
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