Susan Hensel Gallery
The Susan Hensel Gallery closed in 2023. The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery was on compelling objects, meaningful use of materials, and engaging sculpture. It is a gallery where experimental ideas and works of the hand join to create unique sensory experiences. Opened September 10th, 2004 Susan Hensel Gallery was a gallery/ workspace presenting 5-6 shows per year in an intimate space, with hardwood floors and high tin ceilings. In 2013 the interior space reverted to a working studio for Susan Hensel where she continued to work on small and largescale artwork that engages both sculptural and cultural space. With the sale of the building in 2023, the Susan Hensel Gallery closed. Susan Hensel still produces and exhibits her work nationwide.You can find her current work at www.SusanHenselProjects.com.
Featured Exhibitions
But Trailing Clouds of Glory Do We Come by K. Daphnae Koop
Daphnae Koop’s abstract pieces are both heavy and elegant, muscular and mysterious. Their physicality projects such presence, yet their details point to so much ethereal intricacy. But Trailing Clouds of Glory Do We Come trains that dynamic visual language onto precise themes that open the viewer up to contemplation on the nature of reality and the miracle of existence.
6/15-8/15/23
Single Story by Ingrid Restemayer
Single Story takes the idea of the house as a situation of place and circumstance. Each piece is the house overlayed with a stitched or collaged element. Simple elements – stitches, the image of a chicken – can change the implied situation. The combination tells a single story.
Single Story, by Ingrid Restemayer. January 15-March 15, 2023
The Glow of Love by Kim Matthews
The pieces stand with open arms, a kind of inner presence emitting out into the shared space. This is the sculpture of Kim Matthews. It is a study of geometry splashing through color, neither overly formulaic nor totally lost to its own enthusiasm. In the end, the abstract shapes bring us somewhere new, inspiring fresh perspectives on the way both objects and our own selves exist in the world.
The Glow of Love delivers this balanced approach to color and form to the Susan Hensel Gallery from September 15 to November 15, 2022.
Featured Artwork by Susan Hensel
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Bookish Transition, 2020
Digital embroidery
18 × 42 × 2 in
45.7 × 106.7 × 5.1 cm
It’s a book. It’s a sculpture! It is the transition from Fall to Winter, Sunrise to sunset, health to illness. Always life is in transition. This piece can be hung on the wall…But it also can easily be removed from it’s hanging device to be set up on a table. Digital embroidery, tri-lobal polyester thread on polyester felt
“Fiber and mixed media objects of overwhelming color that transcend the quotidien, creating experiences that step into pure sensation.” – Susan Hensel
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