Michelle Ray: Reader’s Art 12
Reader’s Art 12: Longing for Home Michelle Ray-Admeasure
2011
Text and image printed from photopolymer plates and linoleum blocks on handmade and Somerset Book papers, edition of 35. The act of naming things creates a sense of overall safety at sea. Like the pilot’s verse that guided sailors through dangerous shoals, Admeasure is about gaining a false sense of control through signifiers. And rituals that guide one through a world that is largely uncontrollable. This book explores the dialectic tension between the dangerous unknown and measure, rules and tradition. While at sea, measurements, maritime law, navigation aids, and other modes of dominance. Through the organization is easily lost to the forces of nature and the psychology of a journey. The content of Admeasure draws from a variety of archetypal journeys including Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Homer’s Odyssey, Bas Jan Ader’s In Search of the Miraculous, and my own time spent in small boats.
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 also 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 and also a 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 also cultural space. You can find her current work at www.SusanHenselProjects.com The Susan Hensel Gallery is now a large window gallery on Cedar Avenue. The main thoroughfare in south Minneapolis, and also an online venture represented on Artsy.net.