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In the Windows- KATE SCIANDRA

2023-06-08T01:16:24-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Art|

In the Windows- KATE SCIANDRA Kate Sciandra Artist’s Statement In the Windows- KATE SCIANDRA. One thing that unifies all my work is the theme of deeply seeing, being seen, and the intimacy that results. During the countless hours spent as a figure model, being an object for others to find aesthetically and artistically useful. I became obsessed with capturing the compositions that would reveal themselves to me while I worked. I began to have a fascination with what it means to be seen and to simultaneously be the seer. Like an optical illusion where from one side, the object becomes the viewer and then with a shift of the eye, flips back again. Having both the regular experience of my body being the subject, and having worked in the healing profession with the bodies of others as my subject for over 20 years. I have a deep understanding of the body as something both intimate and abstract. This pairing has translated and evolved into a way that I perceive, and then reflect the world at large.< Creating a balance of universality and specificity. I work to capture objects, places, and people in ways that penetrate their nature, while [...]

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Windows on Cedar: Wave forms by Lori Anne Baumgartner

2023-06-08T01:16:59-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Artists, Art|

Windows on Cedar: Wave forms by Lori Anne Baumgartner Wave forms by: Lori Anne Baumgartner The ocean has captured human imagination for our entire history. Ancient peoples saw the ocean as the source of darkness and chaos in the world. A place of mysteries and monsters. As we mastered ship-building the ocean became a frontier for adventure. Holding new continents and treasures to be claimed. Even now the ocean is largely unexplored and new species and geological formations are discovered regularly. In this spirit of curiosity and searching I created these prints. The plates are created with textured acrylic mediums on cardboard. There is no way of knowing what the final image will look like until the print is pulled. Each inking is printed many times, continually revealing new layers of texture and color within the print. The printing process is a journey through the textures of the plate. Multiple printings of each plate are hung together documenting the discoveries made during the printing process. The plates are hung as a record of the places journeyed through, almost becoming a topographical map. See more of Lori Anne's artwork at: www.loriannebaumgartner.weebly.com Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of [...]

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IN THE WINDOWS- ART QUILTS

2023-06-08T01:17:26-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Artists, Art|

IN THE WINDOWS- ART QUILTS IN THE WINDOWS- ART QUILTS IN THE WINDOWS- ART QUILTS. I have known Gwen for over 40 years. She and I were roommates late in our college years. Getting a degree in Interior Design while I got mine in Fine Arts. Going on to a varied career including institutional interior design and, ultimately, library science. In the last few years she has returned to her first love: color.  Using the skills of quilt making, she investigates how color and form influence each other. 2018-2019 Art Quilts By Gwen Schagrin These works were inspired by a variety of situations: a guild challenge, workshops with art quilting gurus, techniques in books that I wanted to try, improvisational reworking of patterns combined with a new approach to three dimensions, and scrap piecing. As always, I am motivated to create and explore by improvisation ally manipulating color, form, composition, and balance. The teaching and works of Rayna Gillman, Pam Beal, Jean Wells, and Cindy Grisdela have inspired and guided me. 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 [...]

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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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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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Lindsey Beal

2023-06-08T01:21:10-04:00Exhibition, Art|

Reader's Art 12:Longing for Home  Lindsey Beal, from Providence Rhode Island, says: "The two-body problem is a physics problem where two bodies orbit around the same point but never meet.  This definition is now used to describe a common situation where couples are failing to find employment in the same geographic location, often leading to long-distance relationships in order for them both to pursue their careers or education. This is a flipbook depicting my own two-body problem by displaying how my relationship often used text messages in order to continue.  Whether it was everyday trivialities or serious statements, we used texting to stay in touch while apart.  We both looked forward to the day when our separate homes, locations, and lives came together and became one and the same.  The thoughts were always present for the day in which we no longer had to describe our lives through texting but could do it in person again." 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 Artist, Art, Artis on compelling objects, meaningful use of materials, and engaging sculpture. It is a gallery where experimental ideas and works [...]

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LaThoriel Badenhausen

2023-06-08T01:22:12-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

LaThoriel Badenhausen Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  New York artist LaThoriel Badenhausen wrote: "Paper dolls!  Growing up poor in rural Minnesota, my paper dolls were wrinkled, faded dolls culled and cut from the Christmas Sears Roebuck catalog. Every year, I received a bounty of new paper dolls in the mail.  (Montgomery Ward’s “dolls” were inferior).  My paper dolls were constant friends during days spent indoors waiting out a blizzard. Schiaparelli Fashion Paper Dolls remind me of that place, those days.  Just as a child I pasted new dresses to a doll when I became bored with her fashion presence or posture, I have transformed the dated Schiaparelli paper dolls by giving each doll a face evident in the currently fashionable art context.  Yoko Ono, Pamela Lehman, Nara, Cattelan, Warhol, Jesus and his disciples and McCarthy’s “Tomato Head”."  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/ [...]

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Aileen Bassis

2023-06-08T01:23:31-04:00Exhibition, Art|

Aileen Bassis Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Aileen Basis: "In 2006 I discovered that my mother was developing dementia. It was a devastating and overwhelming shock.  The person that I knew my entire life was dissolving before me.  As an artist, I make work about subjects that disturb and concern me and so I made art about mom and indirectly, me.  All of the texts are from my conversations with her.  Since I made this work, my father has passed away, and mom is now in assisted living.  I visit often and listen to her rambling words and mourn the loss of the person she used to be.  I no longer make art about her. " 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 [...]

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Reader’s Art Installation Continues

2023-06-08T01:28:08-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Reader's Art Installation Continues It may look complete, but Jon and I are still working on the layout. Last night he tightened the table cover....can't keep the man away from needle and thread! The signage is up...that is always fun to do. I love t hose press on letters! See Jody's book floating in the air? 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 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 [...]

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