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26 11, 2012

Call for Art -READER’S ART 13: New Beginnings

2023-06-08T01:19:04-04:00Articles, Artists|

Call for Art -READER'S ART 13: New Beginnings Call for Art -READER'S ART 13. WOW!  It's been 12 consecutive years...soon to be 13!  Who knew in the year 2000, when I started Reader's Art in East Lansing, Michigan, that it would still be an annual event 13 years later! CALL FOR ARTISTS Reader's Art 13:New Beginnings March 8-April 26, 2013 A show of artists books with   a focus on new beginnings…political or otherwise. In this election year, it seemed reasonable to consider new beginnings. Certainly the politicians are always declaring a "new vision" for America. What new beginnings might you like to see? While politically motivated work will have an advantage, all work that deals with the wide open theme of New Beginnings will be considered. This is show of ARTISTS BOOKS. All media and structures that can be construed as a book or refer sufficiently to bookness will be considered. Artists should send between 3-10 jpg's and a resume and/or artists statement. Applications are due Jan 15, 2013 MEDIA 2-d and 3-d are welcome. All media welcome, all approaches, even installation and performance. Editions or one of a kind books and book objects  or book referential work. [...]

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23 09, 2012

Mary Ellen Long: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:19:11-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Artists, Art|

Mary Ellen Long: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Mary Ellen Long was born in Los Angeles, California, and lived in North San Diego County for 22 years.  A multi-media artist who now lives in Durango, Colorado, her work includes mixed media drawing and assemblage, collage,  indoor and outdoor environmental installations, and artists’ books.    "I live in a mountain setting and work directly in nature on surrounding lands, intervening in subtle ways with what is found and observed;  using handmade paper to mark, wrap, and expand natural form and elements;  burying paper under winter snows to document process and transition, and arranging indigenous elements in symbolic forms. "  Her environmental art projects can be seen at weadartists.org and greenmuseum.org The artist has exhibited widely for over thirty years and her collage and artists’ books are in numerous public and private collections internationally.     Her blog is a good way to find out her current projects. <maryellenlongart.blogspot.com>   She had a solo show at Susan Hensel Gallery in 2007 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, [...]

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17 09, 2012

Kelly Parsell: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:19:41-04:00Articles, Art|

Kelly Parsell: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art: Longing for Home  Kelly Parsell- Circulate This accordion-fold artist book explores the nostalgia and longing for our pasts. The piece highlights six different homes and their specific qualities for which the speaker/narrator still yearns. Circulate investigates the notion of “absence” and how objects, emotions, and histories can continue living on through memory. Reader's Art: 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 [...]

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29 08, 2012

Ophelia as she is changing in the new temporary studio

2023-06-08T01:19:53-04:00Articles, News, Artists|

Ophelia as she is changing in the new temporary studio Ophelia as she is changing I have rented a storefront on S. Bloomington Avenue for the duration of the renovation through Reader’s Art so I can easily continue working on the bodies of work that have been languishing in the on and off work practice that was necessitated by life with a gallery. […]

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5 08, 2012

Windows on Cedar is coming together

2023-06-08T01:20:00-04:00Exhibition, Articles, News, Art|

Windows on Cedar is coming together The Windows on Cedar project is coming together. The windows are scheduled through next fall. They will be filled, soon, by the work of Sarah Claire Ahlers. A local photographer who has taken portraits around the Corcoran Neighborhood of South Minneapolis and will be posting them around the neighborhood starting here, soon. What she is doing is similar to the INSIDE OUT PROJECT. In March and April, in honor of Reader’s Art 12, I will show North-field artist Sharol Nau. […]

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5 08, 2012

Sharol Nau

2023-06-08T01:20:20-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Sharol Nau Sharol Nau is a North field artist who is obsessed with mathematics. She is NOT a mathematician, but attended a math and art conference on a whim and found the confluence of art and mathematics fascinating.  Her work can be seen in the windows and in the gallery during Reader's Art 12.   My artwork develops from doing.  Inspiration may arise from a location, a sheet of good rag paper, a block of Styrofoam, a stack of books or more. I begin by experimenting with materials until ideas and techniques come together.  Progress demonstrates adjustments along the way but I know when it is finished because it is successfully filled with my visual ideas. Over Thirty Years Of Art Making art for more than thirty years gives me an abundance to draw from.  However there are periods in development when a diversion from my usual practice is required to keep the work fresh and interesting.  Even though it is not readily apparent in this collection of recent book sculptures they are influenced indirectly by visual memories of my trips to a local creek that runs slowly at a bend where trees and rocks block the flow.  The creek is [...]

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29 07, 2012

Alicia Bailey

2023-06-08T01:20:30-04:00Exhibition, Art|

Alicia Bailey Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Denver artists Alicia Bailey says, "The phrase “home is where the heart is” is one that confounded me in childhood. Others seemed to think that home was a house somewhere. I asked my mother about it once, or maybe more than once. Her response to my idea, if my home is where my heart is, then my body must be my home, was an exasperated “Where do you come up with these ideas?” The conviction that my home is the one that I carry with me everywhere, my physical body, has stayed with me and continues to make sense. I find comfort in the notion of my home as something that is wholly mine. A thing while it can be shared, used, or abused by others, exploited even, belongs to no other. A place that will cease to exist at the same moment that I do. The five books here reference the physical (Shedding), the sensual (Burning Me Open), the psychological (Two Hearts), the spiritual (Mercy) and all the above (Ab)." Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16-April 26, 2012 opening reception Friday, March 16, 7-10 pm Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of [...]

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29 07, 2012

Fran Beallor

2023-06-08T01:20:35-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

Fran Beallor Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  New York artist Fran Beallor is well established as a painter but of this work, she says, "This is my first altered book. When I think of books, I think of a warm, cozy room. So I put my warm, cozy room inside the book and above, a skylight to see the stars. I call it "Home."   Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16- April 26, 2012 opening reception Friday, March 16, 7-10 pm 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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29 07, 2012

Maggie Miller

2023-06-08T01:20:46-04:00Articles, News, Artists, Art|

Maggie Miller Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Maggie Miller: "The project is a visual interpretation of the book Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino. Calvino’s book is a dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan as Marco Polo reports on the vast Tartar Empire through the lens of personal insights that arise from interactions in each place. A fourteen-odd page mixed media piece, working with pop-up architecture and found prints, my work creates vignettes of Khan’s cities. Participating in the conversation as a reader reflecting on Polo’s discoveries about the relationship between self and setting. The viewer is given a chance to engage with a city fully assembled. Stretching out like an accordion of compiled images and quotations. Closed, pop-ups retreat back into blank pages. Just as Calvino’s cities themselves are in essence bare canvases. Prints draw on the discussions of the limitations of language in establishing a common vernacular of experience. " 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 [...]

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