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Alicia Bailey

2023-06-08T01:20:30-04:00Exhibition, Art|

Alicia Bailey Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Denver artists Alicia Bailey says, "The phrase “home is where the heart is” is one that confounded me in childhood. Others seemed to think that home was a house somewhere. I asked my mother about it once, or maybe more than once. Her response to my idea, if my home is where my heart is, then my body must be my home, was an exasperated “Where do you come up with these ideas?” The conviction that my home is the one that I carry with me everywhere, my physical body, has stayed with me and continues to make sense. I find comfort in the notion of my home as something that is wholly mine. A thing while it can be shared, used, or abused by others, exploited even, belongs to no other. A place that will cease to exist at the same moment that I do. The five books here reference the physical (Shedding), the sensual (Burning Me Open), the psychological (Two Hearts), the spiritual (Mercy) and all the above (Ab)." Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16-April 26, 2012 opening reception Friday, March 16, 7-10 pm Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of [...]

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Fran Beallor

2023-06-08T01:20:35-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

Fran Beallor Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  New York artist Fran Beallor is well established as a painter but of this work, she says, "This is my first altered book. When I think of books, I think of a warm, cozy room. So I put my warm, cozy room inside the book and above, a skylight to see the stars. I call it "Home."   Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16- April 26, 2012 opening reception Friday, March 16, 7-10 pm Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is 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 is 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 continues to work on small and largescale artwork that engages both sculptural and cultural space. You can find her current work at www.SusanHenselProjects.com.

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Maggie Miller

2023-06-08T01:20:46-04:00Articles, News, Artists, Art|

Maggie Miller Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Maggie Miller: "The project is a visual interpretation of the book Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino. Calvino’s book is a dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan as Marco Polo reports on the vast Tartar Empire through the lens of personal insights that arise from interactions in each place. A fourteen-odd page mixed media piece, working with pop-up architecture and found prints, my work creates vignettes of Khan’s cities. Participating in the conversation as a reader reflecting on Polo’s discoveries about the relationship between self and setting. The viewer is given a chance to engage with a city fully assembled. Stretching out like an accordion of compiled images and quotations. Closed, pop-ups retreat back into blank pages. Just as Calvino’s cities themselves are in essence bare canvases. Prints draw on the discussions of the limitations of language in establishing a common vernacular of experience. " Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 12- April 26, 2012 Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is on compelling objects, meaningful use of materials, and engaging sculpture. It is a gallery where experimental ideas and works of the hand [...]

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Lindsey Beal

2023-06-08T01:21:10-04:00Exhibition, Art|

Reader's Art 12:Longing for Home  Lindsey Beal, from Providence Rhode Island, says: "The two-body problem is a physics problem where two bodies orbit around the same point but never meet.  This definition is now used to describe a common situation where couples are failing to find employment in the same geographic location, often leading to long-distance relationships in order for them both to pursue their careers or education. This is a flipbook depicting my own two-body problem by displaying how my relationship often used text messages in order to continue.  Whether it was everyday trivialities or serious statements, we used texting to stay in touch while apart.  We both looked forward to the day when our separate homes, locations, and lives came together and became one and the same.  The thoughts were always present for the day in which we no longer had to describe our lives through texting but could do it in person again." Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16- April 26, 2012 opening reception Friday, March 16, 7-10 pm Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Artist, Art, Artis on compelling objects, meaningful use of materials, and engaging sculpture. It is a gallery where experimental ideas and works [...]

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The Opening

2023-06-08T01:21:38-04:00Articles, News, Art|

The Opening The Opening. Reader's Art 12 opened, Friday, March 16 to good crowds and good sales.  The evening was the first lovely, dulcet evening of our extremely early spring.  Today the elm trees are spewing pollen and the daffodils are poking up through the soil, eager to bloom. Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is 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 is 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 continues to work on small and largescale artwork that engages both sculptural and cultural space. You can find her current work at www.SusanHenselProjects.com.

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Kendra Greene

2023-06-08T01:22:07-04:00Articles, Art|

Kendra Greene Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Texan, Kendra Greene, comes with a story."When my sister bought her first house, its sale came on the condition that she take everything in the house. There were still clothes in the closet, food on the counter, dentures in the bathroom. Everything just as it was when someone came to evacuate the 87-year-old owner from the life he’d been living alone. There were also messages. Throughout the house: a veritable ledger of oil changes scrawled on the garage door. The words “cold backward” were written on the wall above a faucet, and 93 pieces of paper were scattered on the shelves next to a black rotary phone. White Envolopes And Monologes These notes were written on the back of manila envelopes, grocery bags torn into pages, a receipt, white envelopes opened at their seams and pressed flat. They read like transcripts or monologues. They remark variously on the quality of Australian wine and the cost of Chinese dinners. But mostly they chronicle the writer’s failing faculties. His fears about aging, and intense loneliness. After four decades in one place, his home has become something to escape. In his notes, he longs [...]

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LaThoriel Badenhausen

2023-06-08T01:22:12-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

LaThoriel Badenhausen Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  New York artist LaThoriel Badenhausen wrote: "Paper dolls!  Growing up poor in rural Minnesota, my paper dolls were wrinkled, faded dolls culled and cut from the Christmas Sears Roebuck catalog. Every year, I received a bounty of new paper dolls in the mail.  (Montgomery Ward’s “dolls” were inferior).  My paper dolls were constant friends during days spent indoors waiting out a blizzard. Schiaparelli Fashion Paper Dolls remind me of that place, those days.  Just as a child I pasted new dresses to a doll when I became bored with her fashion presence or posture, I have transformed the dated Schiaparelli paper dolls by giving each doll a face evident in the currently fashionable art context.  Yoko Ono, Pamela Lehman, Nara, Cattelan, Warhol, Jesus and his disciples and McCarthy’s “Tomato Head”."  Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16-April 26, 2012 opening reception Friday, March 16, 7-10 pm Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is 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 is a gallery/ [...]

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Karen Hanmer

2023-06-08T01:22:36-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Karen Hanmer Karen Hanmer. Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Chicago area artist, Karen Hanmer, has said about her piece in the show:"This is the painting that hung over the bookmaker’s childhood sofa; photographed, digitally printed actual size, deconstructed, and bound using the drum leaf structure. The pocket-size format references travel guidebooks. Fragmented glimpses of the painting may also function as metaphors for memory, and the unanswered questions that elude memory. What importance does a painting hold when it is the only work of art a family owns? What role does that painting play in one’s consciousness when it has become so familiar it is an unnoticed part of the household landscape. Any clues about the family’s history might the painting hold? Where, when, why was it acquired? Or maybe, to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a painting is just oil on canvas… Reader's Art 12: Longing for HomeMarch 16- April 26, 2012 Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is 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 is [...]

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S. Arden Hill

2023-06-08T01:23:07-04:00Articles, Embroidery Art, Art|

S. Arden Hill S. Arden Hill: Longing for Home Canadian artist S. Arden Hill has sent a mysterious book Cover: modge podge, gel medium, aerosol, dry transfer letters, and thread Pages: mystery. This book was inspired by a conversation with Joe Kalturnyk about Peter Eisenman’s theoretical house in which you could not enter. Like Foucault's notion of what you can not see being more exciting/interesting than what you can see. Eisenman's space is expected behind the walls of the house, hinted at by a small visible space. The Skin I Live in. Being Japanese stab bound and transparent suggests something is locked with the cover but what is “the pages” is left a mystery. Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16-April 26, 2012 Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is 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 is 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 [...]

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Sun Young Kang

2023-06-08T01:23:15-04:00Articles, Embroidery Art, Art|

Sun Young Kang Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Sun Young Kang Most people experience the situation of being a “fish out of water.” As a foreigner far from my country, the meaning of this phrase has become painfully evident to me. In my experience, homesickness has not merely been a feeling of melancholy but something more like the suffering a real fish out of water might experience. I have struggled with my identity as an outsider, lost the ability to express myself because of language barriers, and struggled in a different culture. The fish in this book represents me: I have not been able to escape the feeling of being an outsider badly missing my home. However, the true focus of this book is that if we have patience and are willing to make an effort, there is always hope in even the most desperate of situations. For fish, water is their home and gives them life. Although the fish out of water could not survive, at the end of this book it creates its own water. We can never permanently leave or lose our home because our true home is what we create throughout our life [...]

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