City: A language we Spoke!
City: A language we Spoke! It was a good problem to have! Rosemary Ann Davis curated and organized a reading for the Susan Hensel Gallery last night. […]
South Minneapolis Wild Wool Market Arrives!
South Minneapolis Wild Wool Market Arrives! South Minneapolis Wild Wool Market at Susan Hensel Gallery• 3441 Cedar Ave S • Minneapolis Demonstrations! Refreshments! Yarn! Fiber! Roving! Batt Your Own Wild Batt! This new experiment will start Memorial Day Weekend...When you are out shopping yard sales, stop by and shop with us! You will find great values in materials and finished textile products from local artisans. The tentative line up for May 29 is: Sue Hensel: batts, roving, yarn, Batt Your Own Wild Batt station and/or spinning demo Kat Corrigan: Frankensweaters and sewing demo Pauline Mitchell: weaving, tapestry demo Stefanie Moss: weavings from handyed yarn Pam Angier: miscellaneous fiber goodness from the Fiber Studio Susan Hensel Gallery 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 an intimate space, with hardwood floors and high tin ceilings. The Susan Hensel Gallery is now both a window gallery on Cedar Avenue, the main thoroughfare in south Minneapolis and an online venture represented on Artsy.net. In March 2013, the interior space reverted to a working studio for Susan Hensel [...]
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 [...]
Windows on Cedar: Wave forms by Lori Anne Baumgartner
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 [...]
House Party!
House Party! The weather turned colder than the Grain Belt Beer, but we dressed warmly and drank the delicious donated beer. Thank you Grain Belt Brewery! Hearty souls joined us to watch Dean's videos one last time and listen to Jennifer Markey and the Tennessee Snow pants. Video projected over pale skin and dark jackets. Songs sung with heart. There are more pictures on the website. Stay tuned for Reader's Art info! 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 [...]
Mary Ellen Long: Reader’s Art 12
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, [...]
Ophelia as she is changing in the new temporary studio
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. […]
Lisa McGarry
Lisa McGarry Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Lisa McGarry, an American living in Italy. Sent Four Rooms of One's Own, an original text by the artist. Exploring the Hindu proverb that says we are each like a house with four rooms. Emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual. Four Rooms of One’s Own takes the form of a varied-fold accordion book. With the individual rooms each assuming a different color and unfolding in a unique way that reveals its degree of publicness/intimacy. 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 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. Art that engages both sculptural and cultural space. You can find her current work at www.SusanHenselProjects.com [...]
Aileen Bassis
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 [...]
Maryann Riker: Reader’s Art 12
Reader's Art 12: Maryann Riker Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Maryann Riker Maryann Riker is a mixed-media artist whose artist books and collage works convey a visual narrative. To help remind one of the past and journeys through which we all travel throughout our lives. Her works incorporate digital images, Victorian iconography, and other symbols. This helps convey a sense of memory and time as one opens and unfolds the work. Her works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally and are in the Special Collections of The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Yale University, Mills College, University of Iowa, Rhode Island School of Design, Lafayette College, Rutgers University, Newark Art Museum, Newark Public Library and many other private and public collections. When not creating, Maryann is writing grants, reading mystery or historical fiction novels, practicing to be a wild wannabe, or working on becoming a legend in her own living room. 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 [...]