info@susanhenselgallery.com
FacebookXXYouTubeVimeoPinterest

Cathy G. Johnson: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:23:36-04:00Articles|

Cathy G. Johnson: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Cathy G. Johnson is 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

Read More

Sun Young Kang: Reader’s Art 12

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

Sun Young Kang: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12:Longing for Home   Sun Young KangMost 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 homes. Because our true home is what we create throughout our [...]

Read More

Jamie Weaver: Jamie Weaver

2023-06-08T01:25:14-04:00Articles|

Reader's Art 12: Jamie Weaver Jamie Weaver West Virginia in Quilts recalls my childhood memories of growing up in rural Appalachia.  My family has long been involved with folk arts and crafts. I was encouraged to explore these creative outlets both at home and in school.  Looking back, I realize that much emphasis was placed on West Virginia as a center for Appalachian crafts and tourism. And larger issues affecting the state, like mountaintop removal and rampant meth use. Were swept under the rug.  When I was in school, we weren’t taught how to be socially, financially, and environmentally loyal to our state – we were told that to be successful adults, we’d probably have to move out of state.  So, with West Virginia in Quilts, I wanted to use a traditional Appalachian craft, quilting, to bring awareness to more serious issues affecting West Virginia. I chose an accordion fold structure so that the book unfolds and spreads out like a quilt. The title of the book works on a couple of levels: It is a glimpse of West Virginia through beautiful quilt patterns. It is also a state in quilts or covered from view.  Since the truth rarely remains hidden, I let [...]

Read More

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 [...]

Read More

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 [...]

Read More

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 [...]

Read More

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. [...]

Read More

Amy Pirkle and Bill Hall

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

Amy Pirkle and Bill Hall Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Artist Statements Bill Hall: Before this book project, it had been many years since my artwork dealt with realistic imagery. My abstract prints and drawings explored concepts of time and chance among other issues, usually in a geometric format. However, I often thought of producing a series of prints using the processes of my favorite medium, aquatint etching, with the subtle light qualities it affords. When Amy and I began collaborating on Close To Home, the Hudson River was the obvious and natural choice for the subject matter. Observing the river during my daily commute from Ossining to New York became an infatuation. The train runs parallel to the river so the view is unobstructed and dramatic. Sky and water sandwich a strip of land, unchanging but never the same. Making the plates for these prints, I wanted to give the viewer a sense of time and place without being illustrative, so photographs were referenced for landforms while sky and water were my own inventions. This way, I could show the majestic changes that are so compelling. In the end, I understood how an artist could take one [...]

Read More

Carolyn Halliday

2023-06-08T01:26:14-04:00Articles|

Carolyn Halliday Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home local artist Carolyn Halliday has said, "The Nested Bookwork is from an ongoing nest series begun in 2008 related to home and sparked by the continual. The inexplicable appearance of nests in my life (falling on my head; sticking to my leg, etc). When explaining to a friend that I had no idea what this was about and why nest kept appearing in my life. She pointed out that I had just been talking about the transition of my son has left home for college." 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 [...]

Read More

Barbara Milman | Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:26:40-04:00Articles, Embroidery Art, Artists, Art|

Barbara Milman Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Barbara Milman- I work primarily in two media. Prints and handmade artist books (either in very small editions or unique). The books all have a message or story that is told both by the books as art objects and by their text and images.  The message, for the past several years, has been about climate change.  My specific concerns have been with the fate of coral reefs, the warming of the oceans and the Arctic. The effect of climate change on different environments and species. My books are experimental in form.  Most recently I have been making books out of old cigar boxes, which I alter and into which I put smaller books, or texts and images. The books are multi-media, incorporating monoprints, linocuts, solar plate etchings, hand-stamped type, decorative paper, digital photography, and digital design. At times I use some traditional bookmaking methods. Such as accordion books or Coptic bindings, but for the most part, techniques are developed for each book to fit the design and the message. Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16- April 26, 2012 Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is [...]

Read More
Go to Top