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Rita Collins

2023-06-08T01:21:59-04:00Articles|

Rita Collins Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Montana artist Rita Collins is an explorer. "At sixty, I am putting more focus on my own art. I find myself making lists of collages. I want to create or books to write and bind. Many of these themes are from my daily experiences as an older woman trying to find her place in the 21st century." 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 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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Robin Ross: Reader’s Art 12 Longing For Home

2023-06-08T01:22:25-04:00Articles, News, Artists|

Robin Ross: Reader's Art 12 Longing For Home Reader's Art 12: Longing for HomeRobin Ross  Aerie and Prayers of Being Winged Home to me as the person Robin is very much about belonging to the community.  Practicalities such as structure and spirituality both occur and can enhance our belonging.  Home to me as the creature Robin, or as any other bird, is about flying and looking below and above, about survival, wanting long life for the continuation of my species.  As a creature I am always connected to my environment - questions of spirit and belongingness don't occur.   I am a painter. I paint paintings and sometimes re-create old unwanted books through the use of carving and painting and drawing. Book as an object and art allows me to enhance what already exists.  I’m both playful and serious when using serendipity and precision in cutting, manipulating, collating, and painting. The books are unique, and usually graffitied, foxed, water damaged, or otherwise unwanted. This combines my love of language with visual and sensual art. Often the old paper, the smell, and the description of knowledge and poetry inspire what I paint; inversely, what I paint may evoke more writing.  In the case of these [...]

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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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Meredith Laura Lynn

2023-06-08T01:22:45-04:00Articles, News|

Mary Ellen Long Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home. Meredith Laura Lynn. Meredith Lynn's work is based on drawing.  One of her History Books is in Reader's Art. These books are mostly handmade leather-bound portfolios that open into drawings of historical events. The structure forces the viewer to touch the drawings and interact with them in an intimate way. 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. 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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Cathy G. Johnson

2023-06-08T01:22:53-04:00Articles|

Cathy G. Johnson Cathy G. Johnson. Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home. An artist who creates drawings, watercolors, texts, comics and artists’ books that work with sentimental thought, humor, and sincerity. She draws inspiration from personal journals as well as philosophy and critical theory. She explores themes of legitimacy, youth, fear, and the calm, chaotic desire for everything to just be okay. 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 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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China Marks

2023-06-08T01:22:59-04:00Articles|

China Marks Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  China Marks I draw with an industrial sewing machine, using thread and fabric to make drawings and one-of-a-kind books. I construct complex narratives from appropriated imagery and text. The process is the transformative agent, synthesizing and subverting the forms and stories contained in the original sources. 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 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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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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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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