Wilschanski’s primary medium is sculpture, layered with performance, installation and video. Her time-based architectural-garments carefully construct geometrical forms, evoking frames such as window, book and table. These transformative wearable items the artist enters into, suggest structural shifts in both the artist’s body and the garments. As the artist moves within and reconstructs relation to these fabrics, not only does the form change, but also the appearance of her own body in them, as it (dis)appears in between these layers. Through her choreography and combination of mediums, Wilschanski examines the notion of functionality and corporeality in an environment she creates.
Ye’ela (Ela) Wilschanski, she/her is a Brooklyn based artist. Solo exhibitions / performances include Union Gallery, Wagner College (NY 2025), Parent Company Gallery (NY 2024), The Border Gallery (NY 2022), mhPROJECTnyc (NY 2021), Das Schaufenster (WA 2021) and A.I.R. Gallery (NY 2020). Group exhibitions / performances include Essex Flowers Gallery Flower Festival (NY 2024), Long Story Short Gallery (NYC 2021) and Movement Research at The Judson Church (NY 2019). Awards include Vermont Studio Center Fellowship (VT 2025), LABA House Of Study (NY 2024), NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Craft/Sculpture (NY 2023). Wilschanski holds a MFA from Hunter College (NY 2019) and a BFA from Bezalel (Jerusalem 2014) including a semester at SMFA Boston (MA 2012).
We welcome Ela to the studio as our May WIP resident!
You can visit her studio on Sundays from 2pm to 5pm.
Textile Arts Center’s Work in Progress (TAC WIP) is a window into the studio practice of contemporary artists and designers that engages the public in a dialogue with the field of textiles.