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How to Build an Igloo?

2023-06-08T01:33:09-04:00Articles, News, Art|

How to Build an Igloo? How to Build an Igloo? Summer is finally here. Warm but not too hot...and we are thinking about igloos! Local artist Andrea Miller will be wrestling with coal and ice and sod in my gallery as she wrestles with the issues of global warming and her own carbon footprint. The show starts Saturday, September 5, more or less at 2pm. With a performance by Andrea using these materials. You are invited to observe anytime between 2 and 5 pm. We really do not know how long the performance will take...how long does it take an ice shelf to melt? After the performance is complete, Andrea will clean up and re-organize the remains into a multimedia installation that will open to the public. With the usual fanfare of good food and drink, on Friday, September 18, 7-9pm. 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 an intimate space. With hardwood floors and high tin ceilings. The Susan Hensel Gallery is now both a [...]

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Installation of COMMUNION has begun

2023-06-08T02:11:37-04:00Articles, Art|

Installation of COMMUNION has begun Reader's Art 9 is packed and ready to ship next week. People came to see the show right up to the past possible minute. Some people called after the show closed, too late. It seems that the show built a stronger word of mouth following this year. COMMUNION by Jon Coffelt has arrived and is being installed. Don't forget the opening events on Saturday, April 18, starting at 5:30 pm. About 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 where she continues to work on small and largescale artwork with an attitude. You can find her current work at Susan Hensel Projects The studio remains open to the public by appointment or chance, on Monday-Saturday, [...]

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Claire Jeanine Satin on Sunday

2023-06-08T02:12:53-04:00Articles, Artists, Art|

Getting ready for the next show Getting ready for the next show The opening of Pentinmento went off without a hitch. Beautiful books. Attentive people. Claire spoke here and at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Key to her work as an artist is the influence of John Cage who she met while teaching in Florida. In the choices she makes, she tries to employ Cagean decision making, removing the ego and the intuition as much as possible from the equation. She feels that chance operations and indeterminancy are best expresses for her in the use of transparency, causing all things to be seen, all things to interpenetrate at any moment. This makes for a non-linear expereience of content. Stay tuned. More pictures will follow! 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 [...]

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Soldier PJ’s

2023-06-08T02:13:00-04:00Articles, Art|

Soldier PJ's Soldier PJ's. These were Jon's pajamas when he was 6 years old. Before the time of Disney and Warner Brothers cartoon characters, boys were limited cowboys, toy soldiers and the occasional deer. Jon loved his soldier pjs dearly. Speaking of deer, his family went on a camping trip and had to take their pjs with them. It rained the whole way there and since they were pulling a boat behind the car everything in the boat became very wet. Once they set up the tent his mom thought is would be a good idea to try to dry out their clothes on the grill. For whatever reason, she chose to dry out Jon's flannel red housecoat with the deer heads first. Almost immediately they caught on fire. Luckily his soldier pajamas weren’t harmed at the time. Incidentally, after this horror and Jon's crying for a solid hour, his family decided to call it quits in the middle of the night and head home. They were tired, sad, broken hearted and very damp. It was their first and last camping trip as a family. Memories, memories. 2006. Don't forget! Reader's Art ends April 15, whether you have [...]

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Jon Coffelt’s perfect impossible clothes

2023-06-08T02:12:22-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Jon Coffelt's perfect impossible clothes This is from one of John’s great aunts. It is a pajama top made of a poly cotton rayon blend and would have kept her warm on a winter’s night. Notice the large, rounded collar and how the sleeves are wider and more open as to enable much movement of the wearer. 1999 One of Jon's very first commissions were for Gerda Carmichael, and she was married in this short version of a sari in India. This garment was very worn and frayed and I was so afraid to cut into it at first. This is one of the pieces that he began to realize could affect people is such a myriad of ways. She cried upon seeing it for the first time and she told Jon she pictured her wedding day back in 1935. Her husband passed in the 1980’s. 1994 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 [...]

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Plan Ahead!

2023-06-08T02:12:16-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Artists|

Plan Ahead! Plan Ahead! Opening April 18. Stories will be told! Jon Coffelt does far more than make tiny clothing. He tells stories. The title Communion encapsulates the collaborative process between Jon and the person commissioning the piece of clothing, melding clothing with memory. Communion also expresses the sense of the community that is generated by seeing all the pieces displayed at the same time. "Each piece represents a person. Many of those people have passed, and so the piece of clothing is a fragment. The pieces are just fragments of ourselves—people that we may have been at one time or will be at some point." 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 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 where she continues to work on [...]

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A new show for September and April news

2023-06-08T02:12:03-04:00Articles, Artists, Art|

A new show for September and April news A new show for September and April news Andrea Miller will be presenting an installation based on a performance entitled. HOW TO BUILD AN IGLOO. She and I met last Friday to nail down the dates. We had originally scheduled her for sometime in May. But real life intervened for both of us and we could not find an appropriate date. So...watch this space for details. Right now the reception for the installation is set for September 18. The week following the opening of COMMUNION. Susan Hensel Gallery will be partnering with the new-to-our-street Van Brabson Gallery to present a paper making weekend, April 11 &12. Bonnie Brabson will be handling the details...more info to follow. 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 [...]

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Reader’s Art gets reviewed

2023-06-08T02:11:56-04:00Exhibition, Articles, News, Art|

Reader's Art gets reviewed Many thanks to Susannah Schouweiler for a good review on MinnPost.com. http://www.minnpost.com/artsarena/2009/03/11/7292/readers%E2%80%99_art_show_ It is cold today in a way that only Minneapolis can be in March! The front windows are frosted up to the very top. We began yesterday with rain and very wet snow. By this morning, it was below zero again and all that humidity froze on the windows. When the sun hits the windows this afternoon. We may be able to see the artwork in the windows again! Meanwhile, Zach sent over his picture of the early moments of the opening. And also a couple very nice shots of the show. 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 [...]

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More about Archipelago

2023-06-08T01:41:14-04:00Articles, News, Art|

ARCHIPELAGO A COMMUNITY OF DRAWINGS BY ZACH PEARL February 22-March 1, 2009 An archipelago (pronounced /ɑrkəˈpɛləgoʊ/) is defined as being a chain or cluster of islands. They are usually found in the open sea, isolated from larger landmasses, and their formations are odd and intricate. Collectively, the islands of an archipelago record a moment in history; an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, a rising sea. All factors to which they owe their existence. Individually, the islands are fragments. Pieces to a larger puzzle that tells the entirety of their story. In this way, the islands are a community, an identity that is interdependent, sharing a common origin while living and growing together. Zach Pearl In his new body of work, Zach Pearl develops these concepts of the archipelago and of community through his drawings. Highly-designed, highly-detailed, and above all surreal. Pearl’s Archipelago series is made up of 18 “portraits”. These portraits are of fictional characters, faces and creatures emerging from islands that float in an eerily calm ocean of white space. These portraits, Pearl describes as, “…partly autobiographical…facets of his own self. And his experiences as a current 20-something”. Perfectly suspended between the carefree nature of his teenage years [...]

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