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Ars Domestica-Mystery

2023-06-08T01:05:27-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Ars Domestica-MysteryArs Domestica, by Libbie Soffer May6-28, opening reception May 13, 7-10pm Mending Circles: May 6,9,16,17,18 & 23, noon-5Mending Circle Soiree: May 20, starting at 5 pm. A dialogue led by fiber artist Carolyn Halliday will begin around 7 pm.Textile Art by Susan HenselArs Domestica-Mystery. Discover the transformative textile art by Susan Hensel. Susan Hensel is a multie artist. With a 50+ year career. She combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. She also makes sculptures and wall art using the colors and techniques of commercial embroidery.These artworks are designed on the computer. Then stitched out on the computer-aided embroidery machine. The goal is to create an experience for the viewer that overwhelms with color and transcends the quotidian. Encouraging one, for even a few seconds, to step outside the narrative of the ego into a place of pure sensation.Hensel’s artwork is known and collected nationwide. It is represented in collecting libraries and museums as disparate as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Getty Research Institute. There are major holdings at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. University of Washington, Baylor University, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.Archives pertaining to her artist’s books [...]

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Opening Reception June 17

2023-06-08T01:16:40-04:00News, Artists, Art|

Opening Reception June 17 Carolyn Halliday uses the vocabulary and skills of textiles to sculpt forms that often reference body and/or nature. She hand knits wire and other nontraditional materials into forms that often grow from simple elements of nature and life’s daily debris. With her work, she magnifies nature and references concepts of the feminine through the female form and domesticity. My Father’s Religion grew from her experience growing up with a father who loved the woods. Her father’s religion was in the woods. The family spent all of their free time in the Northern Woods. At the time Carolyn would have preferred to stay in a hotel. Nonetheless, her father passed his religion onto her. My Father's Religion is an installation that explores the calligraphic nature of a knit line, pays homage to the sanctuary of the woods, and questions if art, as in Byzantium, can transform life. This installation is laid out like a Byzantine church(cross shape)The reference to the Byzantine church comes from her fascination with the idea that the images created for the church, during the Byzantium, were allegedly so powerfully beautiful that they converted people to Christianity. Can art or the beauty of nature [...]

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Carol Morris: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:16:47-04:00Articles, Embroidery Art, News, Artists|

Carol Morris: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Carol Morris-The place is the exotic landscape of childhood in rural Ohio. Where tigers and lions could co-exist with squirrels. While doing the book I was enchanted by feelings of beauty and safety. Altered books are my favorite medium. I love books and love discarded books. By altering them,  I preserve them. Bio: I try to remember it's not about me so I will talk in the third person. Carol is a poet, video filmmaker, and visual artist.  Painting, assemblage, and altering things are her favorite mediums. In the last year, she's been included in exhibits in Michigan, California, and Colorado. She continues her decade-long work of bringing art to women in prison. She lives in Ann Arbor Michigan and loves her grandsons abundantly, as her grandmother did her Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is on compelling objects, meaningful use of materials, and also 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 and also [...]

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In Memorium

2023-06-08T01:18:45-04:00News, Artists, Art|

In Memoria Debora Miller left her body and the pain behind last night. Her bright smile, her fierce intelligence, her luminous artwork, and her determination to live with purpose and love will be missed. If you are reading this today, February 28, the gallery will be open until 5 pm today. Come and gather to share memories and share Debora's luminous artwork one more time. Debora Miller left the pain behind last night. Her bright smile, her fierce intelligence, her luminous artwork, and her determination to live with purpose and love will be missed. 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 [...]

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