Contemporary Art by Susan Hensel – Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career, who combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. Hensel’s artwork is represented in collecting libraries and museums as disparate as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Getty Research Institute. […]
Radio coverage of Reader’s Art 11 Jodi Reeb-Myers and I were interviewed by Jessica Folker of KFAI radio just before the opening of Reader’s Art 11. The interview should air next Monday at 7:40 am during the show Takeaway, and either Monday or Wednesday of next week from 7:30-8 pm during the show MinneCulture. The station is at 90.3 fm in Minneapolis and streams live online. […]
City: A Language We SpeakA readingApril 8, 7-9 pmPoetry and language are often featured at Susan Hensel Gallery, especially during National School Library Month, and Reader’s Art, the annual artist’s book shows that Susan has curated for eleven years. On April 8, a few days before the official start of National Library Week, Rosemary Ann Davis will host the reading City; A Language We Speak. […]
Susan Hensel Artwork It is raining hard today, yet Blue Guy, AKA Rick, is carrying on. I fear he will have no papery skin left after today. Last night my drawing co-op brought him in to draw. We discovered that not only did he have no brain, but that he had a gaping hole in his chest, where his heart might have been. Much discussion ensued, leading us to conclude that perhaps he had landed in the Land of OZ. […]
A Lesson about Shipping A Lesson about Shipping. I shipped two of my small works to a show in Michigan last week. They fit in one modest box. The cost of it horrified me! Wow, I had been out of the shipping loop for a while. I thought about changing the shipping policy of Susan Hensel Gallery...But then my post office began behaving (again) as though delivery of boxes were optional. I have been asked, more than once, "Why on earth do some galleries (like me) require artists to ship UPS or Fed Ex when the post office is so much cheaper?" Well, here goes: •Delivery to the gallery is more reliable; My post office sometimes behaves as though delivery of boxes is optional. In fact, that happened over the past weekend. In the past, they have occasionally made no attempt to deliver boxes AND left no notice of the boxes being held at the post office. •You cannot get return pre-paid postage labels from the post office. Stamps you can buy and enclose. •The post office does not generally pick up boxes, nor is their parking set up for me to bring in up to 50 boxes for a [...]
A Little Background, PleaseCarolyn Halliday, whose upcoming show My Father’s Religion, hangs this week, responded to some questions I emailed her. So, over the next few days, I will share her responses with you. […]
When did you become interested in knitting with wire? Around 1996, when Minneapolis was hosting Convergence for the Hand weaver’s Guild of America. […]
Artist Statement – Artist Blythe M. Davis My Wild REcycleD bike pieces are inspired by Pablo Picasso’s 1942 work, Tête de Taureau ive_(Bull’s Head), and are created using collected bike components heading for reuse, recycling, scrap, or landfills. The parts I use have been found or purchased from Twin Cities bike shops and local community members. Some of the wood bases are created from thrifted game boards, old signs, cabinet doors, cutting boards or purchased raw wood plaques. […]
ARTIST STATEMENT – Painter Blythe M Davis My Wild REcycleD bike pieces are inspired by Pablo Picasso's 1942 work, Tête de Taureau ive_(Bull's Head), and are created using collected bike components heading for reuse, recycling, scrap, or landfills. The parts I use are from from Twin Cities bike shops and local community members. Some of the wood bases are created from thrift ed game boards, old signs, cabinet doors, cutting boards, or purchase raw wood plaques. Blythe M Davis's Process Visually, I am often inspired by the rough and rugged aspects of the world. Those that have withstood the battle against time, space, and weather. Bike sculpture allows me to visually experiment with the conflicting states of harmony and struggle, finding beauty in what others might deem ugly. These bike components have seen many miles and maybe some better days, but I think the unique wear, tape, rips, scuffs, and scratches add visual interest and appeal to each one-of-a-kind art piece. Though not a proponent of hunting for sport, I find the concept of using trophies to display one's achievements an intriguing social practice. With these pieces, I aim to whimsically celebrate our incredibly vibrant Twin Cities bike culture. [...]
It's Monday and I'm still working It's Monday. It's 8 pm and I am still working. What else is new? Well, it is the last day of the regular gallery schedule for the next 6 months! Leslie Sobel on the Stonearch Bridge overlooking the great Mississippi River. Zach and I packed Leslie Sobel's show today...if you missed it you can see it in the gallery archives...show #40!!!! Times sure does fly when you are having fun. Leslie showed at the beginning of the second season and at the end of the 7th season. Rather nice, if uneven, brackets. "SO", you ask, "Now what?" Well...I sat in the yard for a bit today and mused with Zach about the difficulty we both have at not working (Hence, it is now 8:15 pm and I have been at it since before 10 am.) I am already thinking of ways to use the gallery, before we re-commence in January. I am considering doing an artyarn show in the fall...I am considering truncating the yearly schedule to September through May or June...I am considering having a fiber oriented set of summer shows each year...I am considering.... Art yarn [...]
