Hands at Work at the Mending Soiree
Hands at Work at the Mending Soiree Friday evening, the Mending Soiree met as the spring rain pelted the windows. Libbie shared her stories, people knit, sewed, operated cameras…hands always at work. […]
In The Windows: Kate Sciandra
About Artist Kate Sciandra From Buffalo, NY | Lives & Works in Minneapolis, MN Obsessed with seeing, yearning for connection, passionate about sharing voice and vision, art is my food, my balm, my drug of choice. My work is centered on the idea of the seer and what is seen and how they intersect. My rich and varied life experiences have shaped a unique vision about how I see the world, interact with it, and express that interaction. […]
Michelle Ray: Reader’s Art 12
Michelle Ray: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Michelle Ray-Admeasure 2011 Text and image printed from photopolymer plates and linoleum blocks on handmade and Somerset Book papers, edition of 35. The act of naming things creates a sense of overall safety at sea. Like the pilot’s verse that guided sailors through dangerous shoals, Admeasure is about gaining a false sense of control through signifiers. And rituals that guide one through a world that is largely uncontrollable. This book explores the dialectic tension between the dangerous unknown and measure, rules and tradition. While at sea, measurements, maritime law, navigation aids, and other modes of dominance. Through the organization is easily lost to the forces of nature and the psychology of a journey. The content of Admeasure draws from a variety of archetypal journeys including Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Homer’s Odyssey, Bas Jan Ader’s In Search of the Miraculous, and my own time spent in small boats. 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 also engaging sculpture. It is [...]
In The Windows: Geometric Events!
Geometric Events by Susan Hensel A single stitch is made by stretching a thread between two holes. The line formed by it can be loose or tight. It can be thick or thin, depending on the diameter of the thread. It can be long or so short that it barely exists. But, it can never exist as more than a single defined geometric event, a sort of singularity. The combinations of these singularities create planes, lines, forms, and geometrical space. Since receiving a Jerome Foundation Project Grant for Textile Art in 2014, my intense media focus has been on digitizing for machine embroidery. The process is highly technical, using several software packages that can only be described as a non‑intuitive cross between Photoshop and Illustrator. Digital Embroidery Digital embroidery lends itself to the study of geometry. The combination of high tech with "women's work" provides a delicious contrast of hard/soft, nostalgic/current, objective/non-objective. It also lends itself to modular repetition and re-combinations. Themes can be played out quickly in the computer and then stitched and sampled oh so slowly on the machine; combined with and without mixed media in a wide-ranging exploration of forms in space. In this chaotic time, digital textiles [...]
New Works by Marjorie Nilssen
Paintings by Marjorie NilssenMarjorie Nilssen installed her show of new works in the Windows on Cedar today. Marjorie is on the faculty of Ridgewater College, in Wilmar, MN. View these paintings by Marjorie Nilssen. […]
Travels with Leslie
Travels with Leslie Leslie Sobel's time in Minneapolis is coming to a close. We had a picnic by the Mississippi River and walked across the Stone Arch Bridge and continued on into the Mill Ruins Park. To observe the archaeological digs preserved for us. Her show runs through the end of the month. Be sure to call to see the work! We will be open Monday's and Friday's, 10-5. We will also be open May 29, 10-4 for the South Minneapolis Wild Wool Market. Be there or be square. 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 large scale artwork. This engages both sculptural and cultural space. You can find her current work at www.SusanHenselProjects.com. The Susan Hensel [...]
MUSIC! In the Windows!
MUSIC! In the Windows! Noelle Rollins, a painter from Crystal, MN, has brought art and music together in the windows through the end of July. […]
INVENTORY METHODS, in the WINDOWS
INVENTORY METHODS: do the math.Inventory Methods is an artwork about accretion and subtraction; accumulation and reduction. A record of old pajamas discarded as useless and accumulated as rags. […]
Evening transformations: Lyz Wendland
Lyz Wendland Visual Artist During the day, the windows require close inspection. They are subtle, snow-white with ghosts. At night, they glow from afar, revealing their depth. See more of Lyz Wendland’s work. […]
Threads and nets and wires…knitting a life
Threads and nets and wires...knitting a life As Libbie Soffer's work in ars domestica continues to question the threads of relationship and women's work through the ages... Carolyn Halliday's work picks up the thread and makes it hard and soft at once, knitting in copper wire of various gauges, entangling nature and definitions of body and self. Carolyn will lead a dialog with Libbie Soffer on Friday, May 20, around 7pm, as part of the Mending Circle Soiree that begins at 5pm. 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.