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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Claire Siepser: Reader's Art 12: Longing For Home Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Claire SiepserChoices : This artist’s book is a personal exploration of reproductive choice. With the numerous and intense political messages and brash facts and figures, sometimes it becomes difficult to see the intensely personal nature of the choices we make about our bodies. Despite all the political rhetoric, it remains taboo to speak about reproduction in most circles. This book acts as a place of calm reflection about the choices I have made and why I feel strongly about women's rights. I have deep convictions regarding my own body but, despite these convictions, this issue makes each of us deeply vulnerable. I decided that I should create a piece that made me deeply vulnerable and shared my difficult trek towards being positive about my reproductive life. I wanted to share my vulnerability with the world in the hopes that it might speak to other individuals trying to make their way in the world. Reader's Art 12: Longing for HomeMarch 16- April 26, 2012 About Susan Hensel Gallery – Contemporary Art by Susan Hensel Opened September 10th, 2004 Susan Hensel Gallery was a gallery/ workspace presenting [...]
Elizabeth Schendel: Reader’s Art 12 Longing For Home Artist Elizabeth Schendel Elizabeth Schendel- I have always enjoyed looking through my family’s collection of photographs and listening to the stories that have been passed down and told over and over again, and I recently realized that my family’s stories are significant to me not just for what I can learn about the past, but also for the new perspective that I can take on the present. […]
