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Meredith Laura Lynn

2023-06-08T01:22:45-04:00Articles, News|

Mary Ellen Long Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home. Meredith Laura Lynn. Meredith Lynn's work is based on drawing.  One of her History Books is in Reader's Art. These books are mostly handmade leather-bound portfolios that open into drawings of historical events. The structure forces the viewer to touch the drawings and interact with them in an intimate way. 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 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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Lisa McGarry

2023-06-08T01:23:24-04:00Articles, Embroidery Art, News, Art|

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 [...]

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Jennifer Vignone: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:25:38-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Jennifer Vignones Here: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home   Jennifer Vignone Fall 2011 Kitakata, Gampi, encaustic, linoleum cut, gold leaf, pencil, original text, ink, nails, wood.  Following is the text of the book.  "Let me die," he says. He is yelling it at Mom, at the nurse, there in his room,  at me at the long end of the phone, and at God --hovering, as he'd like to hover, freed from his stagnant frame."I'm old and want to die in peace. "All the yelling doesn't seem peaceful but I know it is what he wants. We had to remove the gun and knives after we caught him with the .22 in his mouth. Were his hands too arthritic as he fumbled for the trigger?  Or was he, even then, thinking it over? I wondered what it would have been,  over the phone, to hear the silence after the blast?  "Why didn't I find you on the floor?" she demanded. He had threatened to throw himself from the bed in an effort to kill himself. In the delicately gnarled strands of their life together, they felt out the hereafter. Mom negotiated the exit as he struggled in his unresponsive shell. [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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Feast of Famine? It’s newsletter time!

2023-06-08T01:26:45-04:00Articles, News, Artists|

John Hensel PhotographyI DWELL IN IMPOSSIBILITY – With John Hensel PhotographyFeast of Famine: October 25-December 1, 2019 The Phipps Center for the Arts 109 Locust St. Hudson, WI Gallery Hours daily 9 am-4:30 pm (Sunday noon-4:30 pm)IT’S A CELEBRATION! COME JOIN ME! MEET MY SON JOHN, THEPHOTOGRAPHER!The opening reception and celebration is Friday, October 25, 6:30-8:30 pm. Put it on your calendar! […]

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Patricia Dahlman

2023-06-08T01:26:52-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Patricia Dahlman Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  New Jersey artist, Patricia Dahlman, embroiders her story. Her piece in the show,"Why?", is a humorous but tragic story of suburban clear cutting in the artist's hometown of Lyndhurst, New Jersey.  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 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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