COLOR OF CONFLICT
COLOR OF CONFLICTAt the core of COLOR OF CONFLICT, at the heart, at the start […]
Ars Domestica-Mystery
Ars Domestica-MysteryArs Domestica, by Libbie Soffer May6-28, opening reception May 13, 7-10pm Mending Circles: May 6,9,16,17,18 & 23, noon-5Mending Circle Soiree: May 20, starting at 5 pm. A dialogue led by fiber artist Carolyn Halliday will begin around 7 pm.Textile Art by Susan HenselArs Domestica-Mystery. Discover the transformative textile art by Susan Hensel. Susan Hensel is a multie artist. With a 50+ year career. She combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. She also makes sculptures and wall art using the colors and techniques of commercial embroidery.These artworks are designed on the computer. Then stitched out on the computer-aided embroidery machine. The goal is to create an experience for the viewer that overwhelms with color and transcends the quotidian. Encouraging one, for even a few seconds, to step outside the narrative of the ego into a place of pure sensation.Hensel’s artwork is known and collected nationwide. It is represented in collecting libraries and museums as disparate as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Getty Research Institute. There are major holdings at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. University of Washington, Baylor University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.Archives pertaining to her artist’s books [...]
There is a certain mystery that lurks here…
There is a certain mystery that lurks here... Just off the center of the gallery lurks a mystery: a house that neither hides nor quite shelters space. Enclosed in this house is our basic human vulnerability. It stands like a ghost, a chimera, a reminder that our sense of control and safety is a necessary trope that allows us to live in this world. When you look through it, it softens our vision like sweet nostalgia. ars Domestica continues through the end of the month, May 28. More Mending Circles remain. Bring your mending and your stories. Libbie Soffer will provide company, expertise, or her own nimble fingers, as needed. Mending Circle times: May 16, 17, 18 & 23, noon-5pm Friday, May 20, 5 pm until around 7 pm when Carolyn Halliday will lead a discussion with Libbie about her work. And, remember, the Susan Hensel Gallery is always open Monday 10-5 and on other days by very generous appointment. Textile Art by Susan Hensel Discover the transformative textile art by Susan Hensel. Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist. With a 50+ year career. She combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. She [...]
LIFE CYCLES: Encaustic & mixed media about fecundity, growth and mortality
LIFE CYCLES: Encaustic and mixed media about fecundity, growth, and mortality by Leslie Sobel September 9- October 14 Ann Arbor artist Leslie Sobel said of her work, "My work is driven by my fascination with biology. I intend it to be earthy and profound, sexual and ethereal. My mother's recent death from cancer has personalized and deepened intellectual & aesthetic ideas into a passion.". Her work includes encaustic and mixed media styles. About Leslie Sobel Leslie Sobel is the artist daughter of two scientists. The dual perspective of art and science drives her work. Her work reflects her deep focus on climate change and our disconnect from the natural world. She also works integrating wilderness fieldwork in remote places with scientists and time in the studio. In 2017 she camped on an ice field in Yukon Territory with a group of glaciologists and she continues to collaborate with those and other climate scientists focusing on the effects of climate change on the high latitudes. Her BFA is from the University of Michigan, MFA from the University of Hartford. Additionally, she works in mixed media frequently incorporating photography, scientific data and more traditional materials. Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan [...]
It is a process
The Long Process It is a process. Carolyn Halliday loves the process. […]
Project Gutenberg Arrived Today
Project Gutenberg Arrived Today Boxes upon boxes and bags upon bags of artwork arrived today. […]
Nature Made Materials
Nature Made Materials Tell me about the role the natural world plays in your work. […]
Diminution and lovely memories
Diminution and lovely memories Diminution and lovely memories. It does seem that the whole world should be shaking their collective fists and gnashing their teeth at the passing of Debora Miller. I know I am, as are her friends and family. […]
Kristen Dieng Wonder Me Mosaics
Kristen Dieng Wonder Me Mosaics Kristen Dieng Wonder Me Mosaics. It was a glorious October day when Kristin completed installing in the windows of Susan Hensel Gallery. Reflections are always a problem when photographing the windows. But, on this day, the reflections added the fall trees to the picture, augmenting the experience. […]
Opening Reception June 17
Opening Reception June 17 Carolyn Halliday uses the vocabulary and skills of textiles to sculpt forms that often reference body and/or nature. She hand knits wire and other nontraditional materials into forms that often grow from simple elements of nature and life’s daily debris. With her work, she magnifies nature and references concepts of the feminine through the female form and domesticity. My Father’s Religion grew from her experience growing up with a father who loved the woods. Her father’s religion was in the woods. The family spent all of their free time in the Northern Woods. At the time Carolyn would have preferred to stay in a hotel. Nonetheless, her father passed his religion onto her. My Father's Religion is an installation that explores the calligraphic nature of a knit line, pays homage to the sanctuary of the woods, and questions if art, as in Byzantium, can transform life. This installation is laid out like a Byzantine church(cross shape)The reference to the Byzantine church comes from her fascination with the idea that the images created for the church, during the Byzantium, were allegedly so powerfully beautiful that they converted people to Christianity. Can art or the beauty of nature [...]