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Windows on Cedar: Wave forms by Lori Anne Baumgartner

2023-06-08T01:16:59-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Artists, Art|

Windows on Cedar: Wave forms by Lori Anne Baumgartner Wave forms by: Lori Anne Baumgartner The ocean has captured human imagination for our entire history. Ancient peoples saw the ocean as the source of darkness and chaos in the world. A place of mysteries and monsters. As we mastered ship-building the ocean became a frontier for adventure. Holding new continents and treasures to be claimed. Even now the ocean is largely unexplored and new species and geological formations are discovered regularly. In this spirit of curiosity and searching I created these prints. The plates are created with textured acrylic mediums on cardboard. There is no way of knowing what the final image will look like until the print is pulled. Each inking is printed many times, continually revealing new layers of texture and color within the print. The printing process is a journey through the textures of the plate. Multiple printings of each plate are hung together documenting the discoveries made during the printing process. The plates are hung as a record of the places journeyed through, almost becoming a topographical map. See more of Lori Anne's artwork at: www.loriannebaumgartner.weebly.com Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of [...]

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IN THE WINDOWS- ART QUILTS

2023-06-08T01:17:26-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Artists, Art|

IN THE WINDOWS- ART QUILTS IN THE WINDOWS- ART QUILTS IN THE WINDOWS- ART QUILTS. I have known Gwen for over 40 years. She and I were roommates late in our college years. Getting a degree in Interior Design while I got mine in Fine Arts. Going on to a varied career including institutional interior design and, ultimately, library science. In the last few years she has returned to her first love: color.  Using the skills of quilt making, she investigates how color and form influence each other. 2018-2019 Art Quilts By Gwen Schagrin These works were inspired by a variety of situations: a guild challenge, workshops with art quilting gurus, techniques in books that I wanted to try, improvisational reworking of patterns combined with a new approach to three dimensions, and scrap piecing. As always, I am motivated to create and explore by improvisation ally manipulating color, form, composition, and balance. The teaching and works of Rayna Gillman, Pam Beal, Jean Wells, and Cindy Grisdela have inspired and guided me. 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 [...]

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Reader’s Art 11 installation begins

2023-06-08T01:17:52-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

Reader's Art 11 installation begins Reader's Art 11 installation begins. The boxes are stowed, the tools are laid out, the artworks are more or less sorted by how they will be displayed. So, we begin. Post-its alert me to titles I might find obscure when I affix the wall labels. I answer the phone, give in person interviews, check for accuracy in the records. Coco Mault from the City Pages wrote a very nice piece about the show. Thanks Coco! {note: one of the images in the masthead is complements of photographer Michael Shapiro.} 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 [...]

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Mary Ellen Long: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:19:11-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Artists, Art|

Mary Ellen Long: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Mary Ellen Long was born in Los Angeles, California, and lived in North San Diego County for 22 years.  A multi-media artist who now lives in Durango, Colorado, her work includes mixed media drawing and assemblage, collage,  indoor and outdoor environmental installations, and artists’ books.    "I live in a mountain setting and work directly in nature on surrounding lands, intervening in subtle ways with what is found and observed;  using handmade paper to mark, wrap, and expand natural form and elements;  burying paper under winter snows to document process and transition, and arranging indigenous elements in symbolic forms. "  Her environmental art projects can be seen at weadartists.org and greenmuseum.org The artist has exhibited widely for over thirty years and her collage and artists’ books are in numerous public and private collections internationally.     Her blog is a good way to find out her current projects. <maryellenlongart.blogspot.com>   She had a solo show at Susan Hensel Gallery in 2007 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, [...]

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Windows on Cedar is coming together

2023-06-08T01:20:00-04:00Exhibition, Articles, News, Art|

Windows on Cedar is coming together The Windows on Cedar project is coming together. The windows are scheduled through next fall. They will be filled, soon, by the work of Sarah Claire Ahlers. A local photographer who has taken portraits around the Corcoran Neighborhood of South Minneapolis and will be posting them around the neighborhood starting here, soon. What she is doing is similar to the INSIDE OUT PROJECT. In March and April, in honor of Reader’s Art 12, I will show North-field artist Sharol Nau. […]

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Alicia Bailey

2023-06-08T01:20:30-04:00Exhibition, Art|

Alicia Bailey Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Denver artists Alicia Bailey says, "The phrase “home is where the heart is” is one that confounded me in childhood. Others seemed to think that home was a house somewhere. I asked my mother about it once, or maybe more than once. Her response to my idea, if my home is where my heart is, then my body must be my home, was an exasperated “Where do you come up with these ideas?” The conviction that my home is the one that I carry with me everywhere, my physical body, has stayed with me and continues to make sense. I find comfort in the notion of my home as something that is wholly mine. A thing while it can be shared, used, or abused by others, exploited even, belongs to no other. A place that will cease to exist at the same moment that I do. The five books here reference the physical (Shedding), the sensual (Burning Me Open), the psychological (Two Hearts), the spiritual (Mercy) and all the above (Ab)." 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 [...]

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Fran Beallor

2023-06-08T01:20:35-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

Fran Beallor Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  New York artist Fran Beallor is well established as a painter but of this work, she says, "This is my first altered book. When I think of books, I think of a warm, cozy room. So I put my warm, cozy room inside the book and above, a skylight to see the stars. I call it "Home."   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 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.

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Lindsey Beal

2023-06-08T01:21:10-04:00Exhibition, Art|

Reader's Art 12:Longing for Home  Lindsey Beal, from Providence Rhode Island, says: "The two-body problem is a physics problem where two bodies orbit around the same point but never meet.  This definition is now used to describe a common situation where couples are failing to find employment in the same geographic location, often leading to long-distance relationships in order for them both to pursue their careers or education. This is a flipbook depicting my own two-body problem by displaying how my relationship often used text messages in order to continue.  Whether it was everyday trivialities or serious statements, we used texting to stay in touch while apart.  We both looked forward to the day when our separate homes, locations, and lives came together and became one and the same.  The thoughts were always present for the day in which we no longer had to describe our lives through texting but could do it in person again." 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 Artist, Art, Artis on compelling objects, meaningful use of materials, and engaging sculpture. It is a gallery where experimental ideas and works [...]

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Stephanie Carpenter

2023-06-08T01:21:31-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Artists|

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 [...]

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