9 05, 2022

New Exhibition | Christopher Rowley | Susan Hensel Gallery

2023-01-04T12:07:32-05:00Exhibition, Articles, News, Artists|

Opening Soon The Regrettable Truth of the Cliché by Christopher Rowley May 15 – July 15, 2022 The Regrettable Truth of the Cliché. I first became aware of Christopher Rowley and his art work when I juried the textile section of the fine arts competition at the Minnesota State Fair in 2021. It was wonderfully creative  Indeed I gave him an award. And we immediately met for coffee  to talk about gallery representation! […]

5 05, 2022

A James Lawrence piece still on the wall

2023-06-08T00:43:18-04:00Articles|

A James Lwrence piece still on the wall This piece is available at the Take Down/ Take Home event scheduled 2/21/09. Stay tuned for more pieces. 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. Art 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. 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 [...]

21 04, 2022

COVID-19 And Art, Time-No-Time

2023-06-08T14:48:51-04:00Articles, News, Art|

COVID-19 And Art, Time-No-Time My friends and I named the epidemic the “TIME-NO-TIME”. But, the interaction of COVID-19 and art, the epidemic cancelled my exhibition schedule in one fell swoop. After 50 years of making and exhibiting artwork at almost all times…the work had nowhere to go. Of course, the first response was panic. In order to assert a little control over the TIME-NO-TIME, I decided to study and learn more about the trends in the global art market. I enrolled in an intensive class on artwork economics with Christie’s Auction House, studying under Dr. Clare McAndrew, a world-renowned analyst of global art business. I had been observing the changes happening re: online sales. All indications were that this segment would grow during the pandemic, reduce somewhat as it died down, but remain at 15-25% of sales going forward.     Moving Online: COVID-19 And Art Subsequently, several things intersected. I had hired Faceless Marketing, a full-service marketing agency prior to COVID-19, to re-brand me, polish up my personal website as well as my gallery website, and create a real presence on the internet. I was looking for more ways to exhibit even though galleries and museums were shut down. The first thing [...]

14 04, 2022

Martha Bird | Gallery Sales | Susan Hensel Gallery

2022-04-19T19:19:12-04:00Exhibition, Articles|

Martha Bird: Sales Are a Good Thing Martha Bird’s sold piece, Then to Now, just shipped to the art consultant today. SCORE! You never know exactly where sales will come from.  Martha’s show with Susan Hensel Gallery, Body Work, ended in mid January. No sales during the show period. But four months later… But one of the beauties of online exhibitions is that the work can remain available after the exhibition if you have made that agreement with your gallery.  That was the case for Martha Bird. As a gallerist and artist, I want to give my represented artists the maximum flexibility possible because, from my experience it can take a long time for buyers to pull-the-trigger on a purchase…like YEARS!   […]

27 03, 2022

New Exhibit | In the Windows | Susan Hensel | Susan Hensel Gallery

2023-01-04T12:20:34-05:00Exhibition, Articles, News, Artists, Art|

New Exhibit on Cedar At Play in the Fields of Color Perception Susan Hensel With every new exhibit in Susan Hensel Gallery. Whether on artsy.net or elsewhere, there is a companion show in the Windows on Cedar Project.  The windows of my old building are HUGE, walk-in/ crawl-in shop windows. What I put in is part of the Neotectonic show on artsy as well as pieces related  Middle Ground, the show at St. Paul’s Monastery. […]

26 03, 2022

Neotectonic Period | New Exhibit | Susan Hensel Gallery

2023-01-04T14:29:50-05:00Exhibition, Articles, News, Art|

Neotectonic Period: A Radical Proposal for Beauty NOW OPEN AT: Susan Hensel Gallery on Artsy.net   Neotectonic Period: A Radical Proposal for Beauty is a new solo exhibition of mixed media sculpture by Susan Hensel. Running from March 15th to May 15th on the Susan Hensel Gallery’s online Artsy platform. The show exhibits the artist’s groundbreaking digital embroidery techniques combined with a variety of materials. […]

23 01, 2022

Fine Embroidered Art, Fiber Art, & Textile Is For Sale

2023-06-08T14:51:31-04:00Articles|

Fine Embroidered Art, Fiber Art, & Textile Is For Sale View the fine embroidered art created by Minneapolis’ one and only Susan Hensel. Susan has a wide range of artistic abilities and is a gifted and innovative creator. In Susan’s more than fifty years showing her work, she has fused embroidery, digital, and manual mixed media practices to combine stunning pieces, shown around the globe. […]

17 01, 2022

Talk to Me by Ingrid Restemayer | Susan Hensel Gallery

2022-10-12T14:44:24-04:00Exhibition, Articles, News|

Ingrid Restemayer returns to Susan Hensel Gallery  for the second time with a new fiber art series titled Talk to Me. These pieces continue the strong compositions and driving aesthetic focus of the artist’s oeuvre, developing the threads she has woven so far while introducing a new set of idioms. Using handmade paper, printmaking and embroidery, Restemayer gives us a quiet, contemplative view of the ways humanity communicates with itself. The works combine colored paper as a background to etchings of animals, with embroidery that stitches the work together and adds textural elements on its own. […]

14 11, 2021

Body Work & Willow in Motion | Susan Hensel Gallery | Artsy.net

2021-11-18T22:57:51-05:00Exhibition, News|

BODY WORK & Willow in Motion at Susan Hensel Gallery by Martha Bird Susan Hensel Gallery is proud to present Minneapolis, multidisciplinary artist Martha Bird’s new show Willow in Motion in the Windows on Cedar Project and Body Work on artsy.net. Running from November 15th, 2021 to January 15th, 2022, Body Work exhibits Bird’s intricately created natural fiber works. Using willow the artist raises and/or harvests herself according to sustainable practices, Bird creates captivating pieces that talk about the complex struggles and triumphs of the body. These works include her well known spiral forms that mimic the organic geometry of everything from the smallest creatures to the largest galaxies. The exhibit also contains sculptural objects that examine personal experiences of trauma and injury in diverse ways. The largest number of works are in the Artsy show. A few are in the windows. Driveby, take bus#23 and see if you can figure out which pieces are here IN REAL LIFE! […]

3 09, 2021

Windows on Cedar Project update!

2022-10-12T14:59:49-04:00Exhibition|

The Susan Hensel Gallery Windows on Cedar Project glow with a certain mystery and portent at night! Artist, Kim Matthews (pictured in front of the windows just before we bought sushi!), put a brand, spanking new  piece in the north window: D+M Windows on Cedar, it is dang cool!  It is an in real life experience available to anyone who can drive or bus by 3441 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis...day or night! Because the gallery is right at a bus stop,  it's extra easy;-) You will also see LUDUS in person. See the rest of her show NEUTRAL TERRITORY at Susan Hensel Gallery on Artsy.net By the way Her show OBJECTS OF AFFECTION opens October 2 at Doug Flanders and Associates  in uptown Minneapolis.

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