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Lisa McGarry

2023-06-08T01:23:24-04:00Articles, Embroidery Art, News, Art|

Lisa McGarry Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Lisa McGarry, an American living in Italy. Sent Four Rooms of One's Own, an original text by the artist. Exploring the Hindu proverb that says we are each like a house with four rooms. Emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual. Four Rooms of One’s Own takes the form of a varied-fold accordion book. With the individual rooms each assuming a different color and unfolding in a unique way that reveals its degree of publicness/intimacy.  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 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. Art that engages both sculptural and cultural space. You can find her current work at www.SusanHenselProjects.com [...]

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Aileen Bassis

2023-06-08T01:23:31-04:00Exhibition, Art|

Aileen Bassis Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Aileen Basis: "In 2006 I discovered that my mother was developing dementia. It was a devastating and overwhelming shock.  The person that I knew my entire life was dissolving before me.  As an artist, I make work about subjects that disturb and concern me and so I made art about mom and indirectly, me.  All of the texts are from my conversations with her.  Since I made this work, my father has passed away, and mom is now in assisted living.  I visit often and listen to her rambling words and mourn the loss of the person she used to be.  I no longer make art about her. " 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 [...]

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Maryann Riker: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:25:20-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Art|

Reader's Art 12: Maryann Riker Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Maryann Riker Maryann Riker is a mixed-media artist whose artist books and collage works convey a visual narrative. To help remind one of the past and journeys through which we all travel throughout our lives. Her works incorporate digital images, Victorian iconography, and other symbols. This helps convey a sense of memory and time as one opens and unfolds the work.    Her works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally and are in the Special Collections of The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Yale University, Mills College, University of Iowa, Rhode Island School of Design, Lafayette College, Rutgers University, Newark Art Museum, Newark Public Library and many other private and public collections. When not creating, Maryann is writing grants, reading mystery or historical fiction novels, practicing to be a wild wannabe, or working on becoming a legend in her own living room. 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 [...]

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Reader’s Art 12 : Amandine Nabarra Piomelli

2023-06-08T01:25:26-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Art|

Reader's Art 12 : Amandine Nabarra Piomelli Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Amandine Nabarra Piomelli The Caretaker A series of 14 photographs based on a true story (see below) and presented as a centered accordion book in a fabric-like box. The title of the box is hidden by the band to keep the secret of the story safe. Some secrets become obsessions and can change the course of one’s life. This metamorphosis is at the heart of a project made of several artistic short stories. One of them, The Caretaker, is based on the life of Mrs. T. On her wedding day, her aunt, who she thought was her mother broke the secret about her parents’ identity. This shocking revelation slowly changed Mrs. T.’s destiny and sent her off to roam about the world in search of her father. Mrs. T.’s Vietnamese mother had met a Chinese man in Hong Kong, but their love story was short-lived. Returning home to care for her dying mother, she realized she was pregnant. Two years after Mrs. T.’s birth, her mother died and the little girl was raised by her aunt who hid the identity of her parents until her [...]

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Judith Strom: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:25:32-04:00Articles, Art|

Judith Strom: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home   Judith Strom- This book is an exploration of our acreage here in Montana. All the materials for the book except the thread for binding & stitching and the computer inks came from our property as did the images.  The paper is handmade from yucca. As with most of my work this piece grows out of my love of the natural world and most especially the beauty of our home here in Montana. Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16- April 26, 2012 About Susan Hensel Gallery About Susan Hensel Gallery – Contemporary Art by Susan Hensel Opened September 10th, 2004 Susan Hensel Gallery was a gallery/ workspace presenting 5-6 shows per year devoted to the concept of narrative in the arts in an intimate space, with hardwood floors and high tin ceilings. The Susan Hensel Gallery is now both a window gallery on Cedar Avenue, the main thoroughfare in south Minneapolis and an online venture represented on Artsy.net. In March 2013, the interior space reverted to a working studio for Susan Hensel where she continues to work on small and largescale artwork with an attitude. You [...]

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Jennifer Vignone: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:25:38-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Jennifer Vignones Here: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home   Jennifer Vignone Fall 2011 Kitakata, Gampi, encaustic, linoleum cut, gold leaf, pencil, original text, ink, nails, wood.  Following is the text of the book.  "Let me die," he says. He is yelling it at Mom, at the nurse, there in his room,  at me at the long end of the phone, and at God --hovering, as he'd like to hover, freed from his stagnant frame."I'm old and want to die in peace. "All the yelling doesn't seem peaceful but I know it is what he wants. We had to remove the gun and knives after we caught him with the .22 in his mouth. Were his hands too arthritic as he fumbled for the trigger?  Or was he, even then, thinking it over? I wondered what it would have been,  over the phone, to hear the silence after the blast?  "Why didn't I find you on the floor?" she demanded. He had threatened to throw himself from the bed in an effort to kill himself. In the delicately gnarled strands of their life together, they felt out the hereafter. Mom negotiated the exit as he struggled in his unresponsive shell. [...]

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Elizabeth Schendel: Reader’s Art 12 Longing For Home

2023-06-08T01:25:52-04:00Exhibition, Artists, Art|

Elizabeth Schendel: Reader’s Art 12 Longing For Home Artist Elizabeth Schendel Elizabeth Schendel- I have always enjoyed looking through my family’s collection of photographs and listening to the stories that have been passed down and told over and over again, and I recently realized that my family’s stories are significant to me not just for what I can learn about the past, but also for the new perspective that I can take on the present. […]

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Vida Sacic: Reader’s Art 12 Longing For Home

2023-06-08T01:25:59-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

Vida Sacic: Reader's Art 12 Longing For Home Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Vida Sacic Cityscapes project - hand-bound letterpress printed book (4 colors / 64 pages /50 copies produced) produced during an artist residency at the Center for Book and Paper Arts Columbia College Chicago   The printed book serves as one of two parts of the project. The second is an interactive app that can be viewed on a personal iPad. In both iterations of the books. The same content is used but presented in a way that takes advantage of the medium. Thematically, in this collection of over 40 illustrations of imaginary landscapes, themes of materiality are explored through images of cities. Whose landscapes juxtapose buildings from varied time periods and geographic areas. The landscapes mostly combine sights from Chicago, where I currently live, with images from my hometown in Croatia. In such spaces, realities collide and coexist furthering a notion of vague familiarity mixed with displacement that mirrors the 21st-century experience. I believe that this book is well suited to the theme “longing for home” because of its strong personal subtext. That alludes to our tendencies to carry our past with us and [...]

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About Project Gutenberg Project

2023-06-08T01:26:30-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

About Project Gutenberg Project Project Gutenberg Project Description. Commentaries on the pace of everyday life are far from unique. But remain important as humans increasingly forfeit physical relationships for digital immediacy. The Project Gutenberg Project celebrates the beauty of book structures. Honors traditional book art processes, exposes overlooked materials, and draws attention to the gratification that comes from tactile experiences. Using the remains of books scanned into digital libraries. Project Gutenberg Project speaks to the lack of physicality in contemporary art and the trend toward fetishizing book objects. Full of irony, the project both embraces and criticizes technology while elevating and violating its subject matter. Equal parts commentary, prophecy and preservation. The Project Gutenberg Project compels viewers to reflect on their interactions not only with books, but with all physical objects in their lives. Susan Hensel Biography – Contemporary Art by Susan Hensel Learn about contemporary art by Susan Hensel. Susan Hensel received her BFA from the University of Michigan in 1972 with a double major in painting and sculpture and a concentration in ceramics. With a history, to date, of over 200 exhibitions, more than 30 of them solo, twenty garnering awards. Hensel’s desire to communicate ideas through art [...]

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