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What forms might healing take?

2023-06-08T01:33:03-04:00Articles, News, Art|

What forms might healing take? I became aware of the Combat Paper Project and the Warrior Writers about a year ago. Through a contact at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. The email said they thought these artists were right up my alley. Subsequently, I showed a Combat Paper Portfolio, made of handmade paper from pulped uniforms. A catharsis for the group of vets who created it, a catharsis for the vets who viewed it here at Susan Hensel Gallery. Art takes various forms: comforting, recognizable, new, challenging, frightening. Healing does too. The Combat Papermakers and the Warrior Writers offer the opportunity for local vets of any conflict, of anytime, free of charge, to collaborate in a creative re-invention, a re-organization, a re-formatting...a new way of thinking about the personal costs of their service. The Combat Paper Project in Residence at MCBA September 21–28, 2009 MCBA and Susan Hensel Gallery are proud to host The Combat Paper Project. For a week-long residency in MCBA’s studios. Through paper making workshops, local veterans are given the chance to use uniforms worn in combat to create cathartic works of art. The uniforms are cut up, beaten into fiber and formed into sheets [...]

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How to Build an Igloo?

2023-06-08T01:33:09-04:00Articles, News, Art|

How to Build an Igloo? How to Build an Igloo? Summer is finally here. Warm but not too hot...and we are thinking about igloos! Local artist Andrea Miller will be wrestling with coal and ice and sod in my gallery as she wrestles with the issues of global warming and her own carbon footprint. The show starts Saturday, September 5, more or less at 2pm. With a performance by Andrea using these materials. You are invited to observe anytime between 2 and 5 pm. We really do not know how long the performance will take...how long does it take an ice shelf to melt? After the performance is complete, Andrea will clean up and re-organize the remains into a multimedia installation that will open to the public. With the usual fanfare of good food and drink, on Friday, September 18, 7-9pm. About Susan Hensel Gallery – Contemporary Art by Susan Hensel Opened September 10th, 2004, Susan Hensel Gallery was a gallery/ workspace presenting 5-6 shows per year. Devoted to the concept of narrative in the arts in an intimate space. With hardwood floors and high tin ceilings. The Susan Hensel Gallery is now both a [...]

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Installing Pentimento

2023-06-08T01:33:48-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Installing Pentimento Installing Pentimento. We started installing Claire's show today. Zach and I worked all day, and I, into the night. The work is beautiful. It is now more or less set up on many pedestals. The labels are ready and most of the lights are set. And there are 32 unique works of art to be seen, glimmering in the lights. THE PENTIMENTO BOOKS & INDETERMINACY by Claire Jeanine Satin Come welcome her to Minneapolis on Friday, July 10, 7pm-9pm. 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 [...]

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Combat Paper Project Fundraising

2023-06-08T01:34:30-04:00Articles, News, Artists|

Combat Paper Project Fundraising The Combat Paper Project is coming to Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis September 21-27 with many opportunities for local veterans to participate. Veterans are invited to pulp their uniforms, create paper, printed images and expressive writing. The workshops,presented by veterans for veterans, are a powerful antidote to the damaging silence surrounding their personal and shared experiences. Inserted below is the official fundraising letter from MCBA. Any help, however small, would be appreciated. Dear Friends of Peace and of the Arts: In September of this year, Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) and the Susan Hensel Gallery will host The Combat Paper Project for a week-long residency in MCBA’s studios. This unique project, based out of Green Door Studio in Burlington, Vermont, is made possible by a multifaceted collaboration between artists, art collectors, non-profit centers and military combat veterans. Through papermaking workshops, local veterans are given the opportunity to use uniforms worn in combat to create cathartic works of art. The uniforms are cut up, beat and formed into sheets of paper. Later, text and imagery created by veterans are printed on the sheets. The goal is to use art to help individuals [...]

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Emily’s Windows!

2023-06-08T01:34:52-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Emily's Windows! Emily's Windows! Emily Hertle is a lovely young woman who is graduating from Perpich High School ( the arts high school) today and will be attending the College of Visual Arts in the Fall. She came over before the graduation ceremonies to install her window. Do drive or walk by. It is lovely. Artist Statement Emily Hertle Emily's Windows! While making garments I became aware of a pattern among my work, and would describe my ideas as having three levels: the material, the garments relationship with the body, and documentation. While preparing for this show I developed a goal of looking at the world through an artistic lens. I recently took that into a literal sense and picked up a camera. I decided to direct a photo shoot for each garment, To do this I brought together two friends to do modeling and makeup. The pictures taken then became the background, all of the sites are on the PCAE campus and either reflect inspiration or the material used in the garment. Natural Skin Japanese rice paper, cattails Oak Leaves Refined Dyed abaca Drink the Rainbow Plastic drinking straws and wrappers, tulle

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Jon in the Venice Biennale!

2023-06-08T02:10:28-04:00Articles, News, Artists, Art|

Jon in the Venice Biennale! I just received an email from Jon Coffelt who had the show COMMUNION here in the gallery. A piece of cyberspace art that he collaborated on has been accepted in the Venice Biennale http://biennale.net/ in the Padiglione Pavilion. http://padiglioneinternet.com/ Jon says, ""Wikipedia Art" http://wikipediaart.org/ and http://wikipediaart.org/brief-history/ originators Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kildall conceived the project and Brian Sherwin, Patrick Lichty and myself worked through the specifics of how this would work on Wikipedia. I published the original piece on Wikipedia for the guys and we all fleshed it out over many hours before it received an AfD (article for deletion). Since that time there has been many articles that have talked about the controversy and the hypocrisy behind it. We have been working on this project for some time now." "Wikipedia Art" http://wikipediaart.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wikipedia_Art The Controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Art_controversy other related articles: FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/n/?group.php&gid=75066111912&aref=18815168 What is Wikipedia Art? http://thewhole9.com/blogs/applestooranges/2009/02/14/what-is-wikipedia-art/ Darn cool? yes? 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 [...]

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IN SERVICE OF COMMUNITY

2023-06-08T02:10:53-04:00Exhibition, Articles, News, Art|

IN SERVICE OF COMMUNITY IN SERVICE OF COMMUNITY. MEETING Wed 5/27 6:00 p.m. A BRAINSTORMING MEETING CREATING NEW FORMS OF PUBLIC ART TO COMBAT NOXIOUS GRAFFITI Corcoran Neighborhood has received seed money and is seeking artists and other creatives to help brainstorm and develop a startlingly new ( to Minneapolis) graffiti prevention program that uses public artforms. (Please note that around here we use the term 'graffiti' to refer to gang tags. Which are a serious problem in our neighborhood and are starkly different than public art, including aerosol art, including the great work that goes on at Intermedia Arts etc.) IN SERVICE OF COMMUNITY. CNO organizer Eric Gustafson traveled to Oaxaca city, Mexico in April 2008. Oaxaca has problems with graffiti and tagging that are similar, or arguably worse, than Minneapolis'. Oaxaca also has a thriving creative class and “Do-It-Yourself” ethic that recalls the Corcoran/Powderhorn area of Minneapolis. Widely evident in Oaxaca City is a simple but compelling form of public art that any audience will recognize as serving multiple purposes. To beautify, to celebrate local culture and heroes. To provoke thought about ideas and issues, and to prevent future tagging. Most of these images are simple [...]

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Reader’s Art 9 is coming soon

2023-06-08T02:11:01-04:00Articles, News|

Reader's Art 9 is coming soon Art in the Palm of Your Hand READER’S ART 9: small, smaller, smallest March 7- April 15 Susan Hensel Gallery is pleased to be opening the ninth annual Reader’s Art exhibition of artists books. In the year 2000, back in the wilds of mid-Michigan, Susan decided it was time to start showcasing book artists for Midwest audiences. Right from the beginning, in a tiny little alternative space, The Art Apartment, in East Lansing, Michigan, the show found not only participants (the easy part) but supporters and collectors. How ideal to begin the now venerable show of often tiny, apartment sized artworks, in that tiny eponymous space. Now in it’s ninth year, Reader’s Art has showcased book artists from all over the United States and Canada, some famous, some totally unknown. Each year has had a loosely applied theme. This year the theme is SIZE. Most of the books will fit in the palm of your hand and some are downright tiny! This year, 22 artists from 11 states are sending in their work. For the last few years the gallery has showcased several artists. Exhibiting their work in depth. This year [...]

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John Aker’s Perfect Impossible Book

2023-06-08T02:13:07-04:00Articles, News, Art|

John Aker’s Perfect Impossible Book John Aker’s Perfect Impossible Book. John Akre is a local filmmaker who made the Perfect Impossible Book, on view at Susan Hensel Gallery during Reader's Art9. These 4 stills just give you a taste of the frenetic goofiness as people tell the camera what their perfect impossible book would be. The use of text, while seizure enhancing, is brilliant! 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 venture represented on Artsy.net. [...]

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Jon Coffelt’s perfect impossible clothes

2023-06-08T02:12:22-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Jon Coffelt's perfect impossible clothes This is from one of John’s great aunts. It is a pajama top made of a poly cotton rayon blend and would have kept her warm on a winter’s night. Notice the large, rounded collar and how the sleeves are wider and more open as to enable much movement of the wearer. 1999 One of Jon's very first commissions were for Gerda Carmichael, and she was married in this short version of a sari in India. This garment was very worn and frayed and I was so afraid to cut into it at first. This is one of the pieces that he began to realize could affect people is such a myriad of ways. She cried upon seeing it for the first time and she told Jon she pictured her wedding day back in 1935. Her husband passed in the 1980’s. 1994 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 [...]

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