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Kelly Parsell: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:19:41-04:00Articles, Art|

Kelly Parsell: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art: Longing for Home  Kelly Parsell- Circulate This accordion-fold artist book explores the nostalgia and longing for our pasts. The piece highlights six different homes and their specific qualities for which the speaker/narrator still yearns. Circulate investigates the notion of “absence” and how objects, emotions, and histories can continue living on through memory. Reader's Art: 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 also 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 and also a 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 also cultural space. You can find her current work at www.SusanHenselProjects.com. The Susan Hensel Gallery is now a large window gallery on Cedar Avenue. The main thoroughfare in south Minneapolis, and also an online venture [...]

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Ophelia as she is changing in the new temporary studio

2023-06-08T01:19:53-04:00Articles, News, Artists|

Ophelia as she is changing in the new temporary studio Ophelia as she is changing I have rented a storefront on S. Bloomington Avenue for the duration of the renovation through Reader’s Art so I can easily continue working on the bodies of work that have been languishing in the on and off work practice that was necessitated by life with a gallery. […]

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Windows on Cedar is coming together

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

Windows on Cedar is coming together The Windows on Cedar project is coming together. The windows are scheduled through next fall. They will be filled, soon, by the work of Sarah Claire Ahlers. A local photographer who has taken portraits around the Corcoran Neighborhood of South Minneapolis and will be posting them around the neighborhood starting here, soon. What she is doing is similar to the INSIDE OUT PROJECT. In March and April, in honor of Reader’s Art 12, I will show North-field artist Sharol Nau. […]

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Sharol Nau

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

Sharol Nau Sharol Nau is a North field artist who is obsessed with mathematics. She is NOT a mathematician, but attended a math and art conference on a whim and found the confluence of art and mathematics fascinating.  Her work can be seen in the windows and in the gallery during Reader's Art 12.   My artwork develops from doing.  Inspiration may arise from a location, a sheet of good rag paper, a block of Styrofoam, a stack of books or more. I begin by experimenting with materials until ideas and techniques come together.  Progress demonstrates adjustments along the way but I know when it is finished because it is successfully filled with my visual ideas. Over Thirty Years Of Art Making art for more than thirty years gives me an abundance to draw from.  However there are periods in development when a diversion from my usual practice is required to keep the work fresh and interesting.  Even though it is not readily apparent in this collection of recent book sculptures they are influenced indirectly by visual memories of my trips to a local creek that runs slowly at a bend where trees and rocks block the flow.  The creek is [...]

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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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Mary-Ellen Campbell

2023-06-08T01:21:16-04:00Articles, Artists|

Mary-Ellen Campbell Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home New York artist Mary-Ellen Campbell is no stranger to Minnesota.  I met her when she was doing a residency in Red Wing, Minnesota. Mary-Ellen did a lot of residencies that year while she was taking a sabbatical from teaching. One of the hallmarks of Mary-Ellen's work is her ability to come into a new environment with few materials and few preconceived notions. It is a creative challenge that seems essential to her work practice.  She gathers materials and ideas from her environs and allows them to tell the story that needs to be told. 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 [...]

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Elizabeth Carls

2023-06-08T01:21:23-04:00Articles, Artists|

Elizabeth Carls Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home South Minneapolis artist Elizabeth Carls has a deep love of literature that, over the years has expressed itself in richly layered, experimental letterpress books. While the love of narrative and the history of the book remain. Lately she has been drawn to more wordless forms, using mixed media to create mutable experiences of story. Changing Landscapes is a series of 4 one-of-a-kind mixed media works designed to engage their audience and encourage physical interaction between the viewer and the piece. On the surface the idea is simple. You can change the landscape. On another level, Changing Landscapes presents an un-sequenced narrative. A narrative about our individual sense of place and the ephemeral nature of the world we live in. Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16- April 26, 2012 Opening reception, Friday, March 16, 7-10pm 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 [...]

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Stephanie Carpenter

2023-06-08T01:21:31-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Artists|

Stephanie Carpenter Reader's Art 12: Longing for HomeI  Stephanie Carpenter wants to challenge the viewer to interact with the book through more than the text by engaging the physical presence of the book itself. Through deliberate physical action with the entire piece. The viewer is asked to slow down while in- interacting with my work. Thus each book is a tangible reminder of how the journey is an important and relevant part of any interaction. Each printed piece was created with handset type. Hand-cut illustrations, and traditional bookbinding methods. The time that it takes to create the piece is then mirrored in the action the viewer must take to reach the entire content of the book. Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March16- 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 [...]

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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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Irene Chan

2023-06-08T01:21:48-04:00Articles, News|

Irene Chan Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Washington, DC artist Irene Chan is continually confronted by stereotypes concerning Asians. Her book,  The Asian American? The project is made from business cards with text that responds to comments and questions that strangers ask Asian Americans. Every week since age 12, I am asked one to ten of the same questions. Since these questions and comments are common to other Asian Americans. As I created a set of business cards to flash or hand out for the appropriate moments. Through the interaction of questions and answers. lasting racial stereotypes and myths of the concept of the “Asian American” are revealed. 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 a working studio for Susan Hensel [...]

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