IN THE WINDOWS: SANDRA BRICK
All? (white shirts from second-hand stores, hand-dyed thread, and clothespins) Sandra Brick, Textile Artist 2020 […]
The big unpacking
The big unpacking So many Boxes! And this is only the start! W’sTwisted Meaning by Doug Beube Doug Beube is a mixed-media artist who works in collage, installation, sculpture and photography. He is an independent curator as well as the curator of a private collection for Allan Chasanoff in New York City entitled, The Book Under Pressure, which utilizes the book for purposes other than their utilitarian form. Aunt Nell by Pinky Bass Marion M. Bass, known as Pinky Bass or Pinky/MM Bass, is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography. Shards by Harriet Bart Harriet Bart creates evocative content through the narrative power of objects, the theater of installation, and the intimacy of artists books. She has a deep and abiding interest in the personal and cultural expression of memory; it is at the core of her work. Using bronze and stone, wood and paper, books and words, everyday and found objects, Bart’s work signifies a site, marks an event, and draws attention to imprints of the past as they live in the present. She was the twenty-year collaborator of German artist Helmut Löhr until his death. Bart has been working collaboratively with Boston [...]
Books are accumulating
Books are accumulating WATER BOOK VENEZIA V, LIBRO D'ACQUA DELLA LAGUNA #2 by Claire Jeanine Satin Claire Jeanine Satin has been awarded 3 artist residencies to Venice, Italy by the Emily Harvey Foundation - in 2009, 2012 and in 2015. During these residencies, she pursued her research on the waters and gardens of the City. Following her residencies, she produced two short videos: "The Waters of Venice: Remembering Henry James" and "Water Veils". Scream at the Librarian by Mark Wagner Mark Wagner is an American artist best known for meticulous collages made of United States banknotes, such as the portrait of Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke, composed exclusively of one-dollar bills, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery I Always Had Wings by Camille Boggs Boggs grew up on the Gulf Coast and graduated from Ocean Springs High School in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. She completed her bachelor of arts in papermaking/book arts and sculpture in 2004 at the Memphis College of Art, including a semester in Italy. In 2005 she and her husband, Thaddeus, lost their home in Ocean Springs to Hurricane Katrina. They ended up settling in Argo where they founded their Two-Tailed [...]
COLOR OF CONFLICT
COLOR OF CONFLICTAt the core of COLOR OF CONFLICT, at the heart, at the start […]
There is a certain mystery that lurks here…
There is a certain mystery that lurks here... Just off the center of the gallery lurks a mystery: a house that neither hides nor quite shelters space. Enclosed in this house is our basic human vulnerability. It stands like a ghost, a chimera, a reminder that our sense of control and safety is a necessary trope that allows us to live in this world. When you look through it, it softens our vision like sweet nostalgia. ars Domestica continues through the end of the month, May 28. More Mending Circles remain. Bring your mending and your stories. Libbie Soffer will provide company, expertise, or her own nimble fingers, as needed. Mending Circle times: May 16, 17, 18 & 23, noon-5pm Friday, May 20, 5 pm until around 7 pm when Carolyn Halliday will lead a discussion with Libbie about her work. And, remember, the Susan Hensel Gallery is always open Monday 10-5 and on other days by very generous appointment. Textile Art by Susan Hensel Discover the transformative textile art by Susan Hensel. Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist. With a 50+ year career. She combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. She [...]
Nature Made Materials
Nature Made Materials Tell me about the role the natural world plays in your work. […]
In the Windows: Lyz Wendland
In the Windows: Lyz Wendland Stillwater, MN artist, Lyz Wendland Received a Minnesota Artists Initiative Grant to create and mount this site specific installation. While it is similar to her Phipps Center for the Arts installation, pictured above. It was made especially for these windows on Cedar Avenue. For best viewing, come by after dark and see them glow! Lyz Wendland artist statement My work reflects my interest in mapping and architecture. Especially the appeal of repetition and the reassuring promise of reliability. My mainly abstract pieces deal with the comfort offered by repeating forms and actions and they examine the subtle rigidity of my cookie-cutter neighborhood. Which offers a sometimes clear and sometimes blurred delineation between public and private spaces. The connection of the everyday mundane intertwines with predictability of structure. The lines, shapes and forms I observe in my suburban neighborhood inspire my current body of work made up of layered process of drawing, painting, installation and sculpture. 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 [...]
DESIRE by Susan Hensel
DESIRE Minneapolis Art Installation by Susan Hensel January 7-February 24, 2006 OPENING RECEPTION : Saturday, JANUARY 7, 2006, 5-9 pm DESIRE Minneapolis Art Installation - Three years in the making, Desire, is the first Minneapolis show by Susan Hensel. Desire is an installation. When you visit the gallery you will walk into a total environment devoted to the journey from adolescence to senescence, from sexual awakening to fecundity, relationship, sorrow, aging, and beauty. It is a lushly beautiful space, replete with color, sound, lights all focused on allowing you to experience the theme. You will be invited to enter an inner sanctum that fractures the separation between public and private. Quiet, meditative, warm, and inviting for the dark days of winter. About DESIRE The piece began developing about three years ago before Susan moved to Minnesota. She had just finished a mammoth installation, entitled Kristallnacht: the bystanders, about the concept of the holocaust, about the ways in which we humans can kill and maim members of our own species, and how we good people could stand by and not act. Susan has said that she was wounded and exhausted by the work that went into that piece. Years of living [...]
Kristen Dieng Wonder Me Mosaics
Kristen Dieng Wonder Me Mosaics Kristen Dieng Wonder Me Mosaics. It was a glorious October day when Kristin completed installing in the windows of Susan Hensel Gallery. Reflections are always a problem when photographing the windows. But, on this day, the reflections added the fall trees to the picture, augmenting the experience. […]
Opening Reception June 17
Opening Reception June 17 Carolyn Halliday uses the vocabulary and skills of textiles to sculpt forms that often reference body and/or nature. She hand knits wire and other nontraditional materials into forms that often grow from simple elements of nature and life’s daily debris. With her work, she magnifies nature and references concepts of the feminine through the female form and domesticity. My Father’s Religion grew from her experience growing up with a father who loved the woods. Her father’s religion was in the woods. The family spent all of their free time in the Northern Woods. At the time Carolyn would have preferred to stay in a hotel. Nonetheless, her father passed his religion onto her. My Father's Religion is an installation that explores the calligraphic nature of a knit line, pays homage to the sanctuary of the woods, and questions if art, as in Byzantium, can transform life. This installation is laid out like a Byzantine church(cross shape)The reference to the Byzantine church comes from her fascination with the idea that the images created for the church, during the Byzantium, were allegedly so powerfully beautiful that they converted people to Christianity. Can art or the beauty of nature [...]