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Karen Hanmer

2023-06-08T01:22:36-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Karen Hanmer Karen Hanmer. Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Chicago area artist, Karen Hanmer, has said about her piece in the show:"This is the painting that hung over the bookmaker’s childhood sofa; photographed, digitally printed actual size, deconstructed, and bound using the drum leaf structure. The pocket-size format references travel guidebooks. Fragmented glimpses of the painting may also function as metaphors for memory, and the unanswered questions that elude memory. What importance does a painting hold when it is the only work of art a family owns? What role does that painting play in one’s consciousness when it has become so familiar it is an unnoticed part of the household landscape. Any clues about the family’s history might the painting hold? Where, when, why was it acquired? Or maybe, to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a painting is just oil on canvas… Reader's Art 12: Longing for HomeMarch 16- 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 [...]

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Maryann Riker: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:25:20-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Art|

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 [...]

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Jennifer Vignone: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:25:38-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Jennifer Vignones Here: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home   Jennifer Vignone Fall 2011 Kitakata, Gampi, encaustic, linoleum cut, gold leaf, pencil, original text, ink, nails, wood.  Following is the text of the book.  "Let me die," he says. He is yelling it at Mom, at the nurse, there in his room,  at me at the long end of the phone, and at God --hovering, as he'd like to hover, freed from his stagnant frame."I'm old and want to die in peace. "All the yelling doesn't seem peaceful but I know it is what he wants. We had to remove the gun and knives after we caught him with the .22 in his mouth. Were his hands too arthritic as he fumbled for the trigger?  Or was he, even then, thinking it over? I wondered what it would have been,  over the phone, to hear the silence after the blast?  "Why didn't I find you on the floor?" she demanded. He had threatened to throw himself from the bed in an effort to kill himself. In the delicately gnarled strands of their life together, they felt out the hereafter. Mom negotiated the exit as he struggled in his unresponsive shell. [...]

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Claire Siepser: Reader’s Art 12: Longing For Home

2023-06-08T01:25:46-04:00Exhibition, News, Artists|

Claire Siepser: Reader's Art 12: Longing For Home Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Claire SiepserChoices : This artist’s book is a personal exploration of reproductive choice. With the numerous and intense political messages and brash facts and figures, sometimes it becomes difficult to see the intensely personal nature of the choices we make about our bodies. Despite all the political rhetoric, it remains taboo to speak about reproduction in most circles. This book acts as a place of calm reflection about the choices I have made and why I feel strongly about women's rights. I have deep convictions regarding my own body but, despite these convictions, this issue makes each of us deeply vulnerable. I decided that I should create a piece that made me deeply vulnerable and shared my difficult trek towards being positive about my reproductive life. I wanted to share my vulnerability with the world in the hopes that it might speak to other individuals trying to make their way in the world. Reader's Art 12: Longing for HomeMarch 16- April 26, 2012 About Susan Hensel Gallery – Contemporary Art by Susan Hensel Opened September 10th, 2004 Susan Hensel Gallery was a gallery/ workspace presenting [...]

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Elizabeth Schendel: Reader’s Art 12 Longing For Home

2023-06-08T01:25:52-04:00Exhibition, Artists, Art|

Elizabeth Schendel: Reader’s Art 12 Longing For Home Artist Elizabeth Schendel Elizabeth Schendel- I have always enjoyed looking through my family’s collection of photographs and listening to the stories that have been passed down and told over and over again, and I recently realized that my family’s stories are significant to me not just for what I can learn about the past, but also for the new perspective that I can take on the present. […]

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Vida Sacic: Reader’s Art 12 Longing For Home

2023-06-08T01:25:59-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

Vida Sacic: Reader's Art 12 Longing For Home Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Vida Sacic Cityscapes project - hand-bound letterpress printed book (4 colors / 64 pages /50 copies produced) produced during an artist residency at the Center for Book and Paper Arts Columbia College Chicago   The printed book serves as one of two parts of the project. The second is an interactive app that can be viewed on a personal iPad. In both iterations of the books. The same content is used but presented in a way that takes advantage of the medium. Thematically, in this collection of over 40 illustrations of imaginary landscapes, themes of materiality are explored through images of cities. Whose landscapes juxtapose buildings from varied time periods and geographic areas. The landscapes mostly combine sights from Chicago, where I currently live, with images from my hometown in Croatia. In such spaces, realities collide and coexist furthering a notion of vague familiarity mixed with displacement that mirrors the 21st-century experience. I believe that this book is well suited to the theme “longing for home” because of its strong personal subtext. That alludes to our tendencies to carry our past with us and [...]

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Barbara Milman | Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:26:40-04:00Articles, Embroidery Art, Artists, Art|

Barbara Milman Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Barbara Milman- I work primarily in two media. Prints and handmade artist books (either in very small editions or unique). The books all have a message or story that is told both by the books as art objects and by their text and images.  The message, for the past several years, has been about climate change.  My specific concerns have been with the fate of coral reefs, the warming of the oceans and the Arctic. The effect of climate change on different environments and species. My books are experimental in form.  Most recently I have been making books out of old cigar boxes, which I alter and into which I put smaller books, or texts and images. The books are multi-media, incorporating monoprints, linocuts, solar plate etchings, hand-stamped type, decorative paper, digital photography, and digital design. At times I use some traditional bookmaking methods. Such as accordion books or Coptic bindings, but for the most part, techniques are developed for each book to fit the design and the message. Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16- April 26, 2012 Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is [...]

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Black & White and read all over

2023-06-08T01:31:15-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Black & White and read all over There will be much to read in Reader's Art10. Today I am showing you some of the black and white pieces. They are so very different from one another but share the same desire to communicate. 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. 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.

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The gallery is stirring, with much new work

2023-06-08T01:53:27-04:00Exhibition, News, Artists, Art|

The gallery is stirring, with much new work The gallery is stirring and a re-birth of sorts is underway. My personal work is all over the walls. I have begun working with four of the upcoming artists who have shown here in 2011, beginning with Dean Ebben. Then will come Reader's Art 11: Urban/Urbane, followed by Libbie Soffer, Carolyn Halliday, and Debora Miller. In addition to the wool market tomorrow, Sat, Oct 23, 10-4...You can see a show of what I have been doing during this sabbatical! The walls are covered, nearly to the ceiling, with new work. Come and see! 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. All 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 [...]

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