In the Windows
In the Windows Julia Babb has been a favorite artist of mine for a while now. She thinks long and hard about things and usually comes up with a use of language that astounds and amazes me. […]
COLOR OF CONFLICT
COLOR OF CONFLICTAt the core of COLOR OF CONFLICT, at the heart, at the start […]
Call for Art -READER’S ART 13: New Beginnings
Call for Art -READER’S ART 13: New Beginnings Call for Art. WOW! It’s been 12 consecutive years…soon to be 13! Who knew in the year 2000, when I started Reader’s Art in East Lansing, Michigan, that it would still be an annual event 13 years later! […]
I’ve never had to cancel a show before!
I’ve never had to cancel a show before!For the first time in my 15 years or so of curating shows, I did not receive sufficient numbers of proposed artworks to create a show that coheres. […]
FAULT
FAULT The video FAULT, by Dean Ebben is projected onto the shaped screen of In the House of the Mineral Spirits.It is an evocative video, roughly 7 minutes, in roughly 5 parts. It begins with Dean rolling on a clear, old, wood floor. The soundtrack is both ambient, using the sounds found in the environment and additive and evocative using the jingling and jangling of silverware. As the video progresses, new sounds and new actions surround the newly discovered fault. Bread and water, staff of life, the stuff of memory and the stuff of the present. In the House of the Mineral Spirits runs through the end of February at Susan Hensel Gallery. Open Mondays, 10-5 and by very generous appointment. 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 [...]
Painting the Proscenium
Painting the prosceniumIt may or may not be a proscenium…although we have been referring to it as a stage…but upside down. […]
Karen Hanmer
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 [...]
Fashioning the unwearable
Fashioning the unwearable Between the dress for two with no hem and the kimono from sharp brass flashing, Libbie and Carolyn both share a love of fashion as a metaphor. […]
The gallery is stirring, with much new work
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 [...]
A Community Call for Art
A Community Call for Art CALL FOR ART THE ARTS OF COMMUNITY March 19- April 16, 2010 At Intermedia Arts 2822 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis. Sponsored and curated by SMARTS, South Minneapolis Arts Business Association, a new association of artists and arts related businesses that unite to connect, cooperate and support the arts in South Minneapolis. The focus for this first annual show is COMMUNITY. The jurors want to see work from, about and in support of community, communi- ty building, and the glories of South Minneapolis. Other themes will be considered as SMARTS would like to promote a broad range of South Minneapolis artists. The exhibition will also serve as the launch of the SMARTS guide which is a map of visual and performing art destinations, artists, education and art service businesses in South Minneapolis. The SMARTS GUIDE will lead visitors to arts businesses and destination points in South Minneapolis. For more information on SMARTS please visit www.southminneapolisarts.org. WHO MAY SUBMIT All artists living and working in south Minneaopolis may apply. The borders are roughly south of Franklin Ave, east of Lake Harriet, Lake Calhoun, Lake of the Isles, north of HWY 62 and west of the [...]