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LaThoriel Badenhausen

2023-06-08T01:22:12-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

LaThoriel Badenhausen Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  New York artist LaThoriel Badenhausen wrote: "Paper dolls!  Growing up poor in rural Minnesota, my paper dolls were wrinkled, faded dolls culled and cut from the Christmas Sears Roebuck catalog. Every year, I received a bounty of new paper dolls in the mail.  (Montgomery Ward’s “dolls” were inferior).  My paper dolls were constant friends during days spent indoors waiting out a blizzard. Schiaparelli Fashion Paper Dolls remind me of that place, those days.  Just as a child I pasted new dresses to a doll when I became bored with her fashion presence or posture, I have transformed the dated Schiaparelli paper dolls by giving each doll a face evident in the currently fashionable art context.  Yoko Ono, Pamela Lehman, Nara, Cattelan, Warhol, Jesus and his disciples and McCarthy’s “Tomato Head”."  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/ [...]

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Aileen Bassis

2023-06-08T01:23:31-04:00Exhibition, Art|

Aileen Bassis Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Aileen Basis: "In 2006 I discovered that my mother was developing dementia. It was a devastating and overwhelming shock.  The person that I knew my entire life was dissolving before me.  As an artist, I make work about subjects that disturb and concern me and so I made art about mom and indirectly, me.  All of the texts are from my conversations with her.  Since I made this work, my father has passed away, and mom is now in assisted living.  I visit often and listen to her rambling words and mourn the loss of the person she used to be.  I no longer make art about her. " 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 [...]

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Sun Young Kang: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:25:04-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Artists|

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 [...]

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Maryann Riker: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:25:20-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Art|

Reader's Art 12: Maryann Riker Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Maryann Riker Maryann Riker is a mixed-media artist whose artist books and collage works convey a visual narrative. To help remind one of the past and journeys through which we all travel throughout our lives. Her works incorporate digital images, Victorian iconography, and other symbols. This helps convey a sense of memory and time as one opens and unfolds the work.    Her works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally and are in the Special Collections of The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Yale University, Mills College, University of Iowa, Rhode Island School of Design, Lafayette College, Rutgers University, Newark Art Museum, Newark Public Library and many other private and public collections. When not creating, Maryann is writing grants, reading mystery or historical fiction novels, practicing to be a wild wannabe, or working on becoming a legend in her own living room. 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 [...]

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Reader’s Art 12 : Amandine Nabarra Piomelli

2023-06-08T01:25:26-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Art|

Reader's Art 12 : Amandine Nabarra Piomelli Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Amandine Nabarra Piomelli The Caretaker A series of 14 photographs based on a true story (see below) and presented as a centered accordion book in a fabric-like box. The title of the box is hidden by the band to keep the secret of the story safe. Some secrets become obsessions and can change the course of one’s life. This metamorphosis is at the heart of a project made of several artistic short stories. One of them, The Caretaker, is based on the life of Mrs. T. On her wedding day, her aunt, who she thought was her mother broke the secret about her parents’ identity. This shocking revelation slowly changed Mrs. T.’s destiny and sent her off to roam about the world in search of her father. Mrs. T.’s Vietnamese mother had met a Chinese man in Hong Kong, but their love story was short-lived. Returning home to care for her dying mother, she realized she was pregnant. Two years after Mrs. T.’s birth, her mother died and the little girl was raised by her aunt who hid the identity of her parents until her [...]

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Claire Siepser: Reader’s Art 12: Longing For Home

2023-06-08T01:25:46-04:00Exhibition, News, Artists|

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 [...]

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Elizabeth Schendel: Reader’s Art 12 Longing For Home

2023-06-08T01:25:52-04:00Exhibition, Artists, Art|

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. […]

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Vida Sacic: Reader’s Art 12 Longing For Home

2023-06-08T01:25:59-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

Vida Sacic: Reader's Art 12 Longing For Home Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Vida Sacic Cityscapes project - hand-bound letterpress printed book (4 colors / 64 pages /50 copies produced) produced during an artist residency at the Center for Book and Paper Arts Columbia College Chicago   The printed book serves as one of two parts of the project. The second is an interactive app that can be viewed on a personal iPad. In both iterations of the books. The same content is used but presented in a way that takes advantage of the medium. Thematically, in this collection of over 40 illustrations of imaginary landscapes, themes of materiality are explored through images of cities. Whose landscapes juxtapose buildings from varied time periods and geographic areas. The landscapes mostly combine sights from Chicago, where I currently live, with images from my hometown in Croatia. In such spaces, realities collide and coexist furthering a notion of vague familiarity mixed with displacement that mirrors the 21st-century experience. I believe that this book is well suited to the theme “longing for home” because of its strong personal subtext. That alludes to our tendencies to carry our past with us and [...]

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Amy Pirkle and Bill Hall

2023-06-08T01:26:06-04:00Exhibition, Articles, News|

Amy Pirkle and Bill Hall Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Artist Statements Bill Hall: Before this book project, it had been many years since my artwork dealt with realistic imagery. My abstract prints and drawings explored concepts of time and chance among other issues, usually in a geometric format. However, I often thought of producing a series of prints using the processes of my favorite medium, aquatint etching, with the subtle light qualities it affords. When Amy and I began collaborating on Close To Home, the Hudson River was the obvious and natural choice for the subject matter. Observing the river during my daily commute from Ossining to New York became an infatuation. The train runs parallel to the river so the view is unobstructed and dramatic. Sky and water sandwich a strip of land, unchanging but never the same. Making the plates for these prints, I wanted to give the viewer a sense of time and place without being illustrative, so photographs were referenced for landforms while sky and water were my own inventions. This way, I could show the majestic changes that are so compelling. In the end, I understood how an artist could take one [...]

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