A not so lackadaisical summer Summer is finally upon us. It is a glorious Independence Day morning, not yet hot. The birds are singing and the flowers swaying in the breeze. The amateur fireworks have been pretty minimal this year. But tonight will be a different story. The skies will light up with both amateur and professional fireworks. […]
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. […]
Carol Morris: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Carol Morris-The place is the exotic landscape of childhood in rural Ohio. Where tigers and lions could co-exist with squirrels. While doing the book I was enchanted by feelings of beauty and safety. Altered books are my favorite medium. I love books and love discarded books. By altering them, I preserve them. Bio: I try to remember it's not about me so I will talk in the third person. Carol is a poet, video filmmaker, and visual artist. Painting, assemblage, and altering things are her favorite mediums. In the last year, she's been included in exhibits in Michigan, California, and Colorado. She continues her decade-long work of bringing art to women in prison. She lives in Ann Arbor Michigan and loves her grandsons abundantly, as her grandmother did her Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is on compelling objects, meaningful use of materials, and also 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 and also [...]
The Quilting Bee/Artist Salon Project Artist Statement Mary Bergs The Quilting Bee/Artist Salon Project […]
House Party! The weather turned colder than the Grain Belt Beer, but we dressed warmly and drank the delicious donated beer. Thank you Grain Belt Brewery! Hearty souls joined us to watch Dean's videos one last time and listen to Jennifer Markey and the Tennessee Snow pants. Video projected over pale skin and dark jackets. Songs sung with heart. There are more pictures on the website. Stay tuned for Reader's Art info! 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 that engages both sculptural and cultural space. You can find her current work at www.SusanHenselProjects.com. The Susan Hensel Gallery is now both a large window gallery on Cedar [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Trees in the windows June 9th the gallery was a featured stop on the gallery tours of the Surface Design Conference. Carolyn and I greeted attendees from all over the country. […]
