About Project Gutenberg Project

2023-06-08T01:26:30-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

About Project Gutenberg Project Project Gutenberg Project Description. Commentaries on the pace of everyday life are far from unique. But remain important as humans increasingly forfeit physical relationships for digital immediacy. The Project Gutenberg Project celebrates the beauty of book structures. Honors traditional book art processes, exposes overlooked materials, and draws attention to the gratification that comes from tactile experiences. Using the remains of books scanned into digital libraries. Project Gutenberg Project speaks to the lack of physicality in contemporary art and the trend toward fetishizing book objects. Full of irony, the project both embraces and criticizes technology while elevating and violating its subject matter. Equal parts commentary, prophecy and preservation. The Project Gutenberg Project compels viewers to reflect on their interactions not only with books, but with all physical objects in their lives. Susan Hensel Biography – Contemporary Art by Susan Hensel Learn about contemporary art by Susan Hensel. Susan Hensel received her BFA from the University of Michigan in 1972 with a double major in painting and sculpture and a concentration in ceramics. With a history, to date, of over 200 exhibitions, more than 30 of them solo, twenty garnering awards. Hensel’s desire to communicate ideas through art [...]

The gallery is stirring, with much new work

2023-06-08T01:53:27-04:00Exhibition, News, Artists, Art|

The gallery is stirring, with much new work The gallery is stirring and a re-birth of sorts is underway. My personal work is all over the walls. I have begun working with four of the upcoming artists who have shown here in 2011, beginning with Dean Ebben. Then will come Reader's Art 11: Urban/Urbane, followed by Libbie Soffer, Carolyn Halliday, and Debora Miller. In addition to the wool market tomorrow, Sat, Oct 23, 10-4...You can see a show of what I have been doing during this sabbatical! The walls are covered, nearly to the ceiling, with new work. Come and see! 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. All 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 [...]

Wrestling Books into Shape

2023-06-08T01:23:50-04:00Exhibition, Articles, News, Art|

Wrestling Books into Shape Sometimes books need extra handling to present themselves properly. Zach and Jon wrestled with Doug Beube's work for the afternoon. These altered books arrive looking like ordinary closed books. The trick with the book LIFE is to slowly and carefully sort the pages into their ideal space, then tilt the book up, and let the pages cascade! Drilling holes again. 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 Avenue, a main thoroughfare in south Minneapolis, and an online [...]

Boxes on Boxes!

2023-06-08T02:01:45-04:00Exhibition, Articles, News|

Boxes on Boxes! The boxes for Reader's Art are piling up! The computer lumbers under the photo rendering stress! Old boxes are reclaimed from storage to pack up Uncommon Textiles! Uncommon Textiles, with Sara Christensen Blair and Rachel Star Suntop was well attended right up to the last possible moment! One of the last people to see that show is one of the artists in Reader's Art 10: Buzz Spector. Buzz has been around the book world for years, teaching, writing and producing artwork that comments on the book and literature. He and I had a series of "small world" encounters in our brief visit. He knows Rachel Suntop. He taught with her mother, Bea Nettles, years ago and stays in touch with Rachel on Facebook. Until recently, he taught at Cornell, in my home town of Ithaca, NY and he is now Dean at Washington University in St. Louis...a school I came very close to attending (42 years ago!). White Insistence, one of the three books he will have in the show, is a limited edition printed to be torn-away so the story is revealed across multiple pages at once. FYI, I uploaded all the jpg's I [...]

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