New Exhibit on Cedar At Play in the Fields of Color Perception Susan Hensel With every new exhibit in Susan Hensel Gallery. Whether on artsy.net or elsewhere, there is a companion show in the Windows on Cedar Project. The windows of my old building are HUGE, walk-in/ crawl-in shop windows. What I put in is part of the Neotectonic show on artsy as well as pieces related Middle Ground, the show at St. Paul’s Monastery. […]
Neotectonic Period: A Radical Proposal for Beauty NOW OPEN AT: Susan Hensel Gallery on Artsy.net Neotectonic Period: A Radical Proposal for Beauty is a new solo exhibition of mixed media sculpture by Susan Hensel. Running from March 15th to May 15th on the Susan Hensel Gallery’s online Artsy platform. The show exhibits the artist’s groundbreaking digital embroidery techniques combined with a variety of materials. […]
Susan Hensel Projects Art Catalogs Catalogs! Catalogs! Catalogs! Just a little note to let you know that there are FREE art catalogs available from Susan Hensel Projects! The pandemic made me do it! That is, start the special, online, curated exhibitions. As a result, the list of catalogs is growing. Get them here! Take a look below to get a preview and go take a look or download them for later. You can also print them out! […]
Midwestern Biennial & Susan Hensel Projects CHOICE POINT(SAUL) from Susan Hensel Projects will be on view at the 76TH ROCKFORD MIDWESTERN BIENNIAL , OCT 9, 2020–JAN 31, 2021, at the ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM […]
Music, Wordplay, and Numbers This new piece, Log Rhythm, is actually a tribute to my father. Not only did he love to play with music and words, but he also loved to play with numbers. My father was an engineer who loved music, wordplay, and numbers. He could play a tune on any instrument that he picked up. Mostly he played ragtime on our upright piano and comedic songs on the concertina. (I never played ragtime. I thought I was the next Edith Piaf, composing and singing heartbreakingly dolorous songs as a teenager.) At Christmas we would go caroling around the neighborhood with my father leading the pack, playing the concertina. […]
Studio life for artist Susan Hensel is a lot of things. It is playing with colors, materials, and ideas: the fun stuff. It is making decisions about how to handle material mistakes: also fun stuff. This piece, Jester: Clown of God, started as one thing and became another because of inconsistencies that turned up in the stitch-out. I can’t even see the “problems” anymore, because the piece became itself once I draped it over a chair. The paradoxical heaviness of the fabric against the visual lightness of spirit reminded me of a story by Tomi DiPaola: The Clown of God, about a character who used his unique talent to bring goodness to the world. So absurd, to think that a talent for juggling could be so valued. But isn’t that what art does for us? That’s all well and good…but if you are an exhibiting artist, you will probably need to ship the work that you had so much fun making. […]
The Unique Art of Embroidery is a creative and rare form of art medium. Art comes in all different kinds of style mediums such as oils, acrylics, watercolors, charcoal, chalk pastels, spray paint, and pencil. Some more artistic art mediums can include marble, steel, and wood used for sculpting your work. Embroidery although being a rarer form of art medium is loved all over the world. If you’re interested in learning more about this wonderful yet unique art medium, here are some interesting things you might want to know about The Unique Art of Embroidery. […]
The Price We Pay by Alice A Savitski […]
John Hensel PhotographyI DWELL IN IMPOSSIBILITY – With John Hensel PhotographyFeast of Famine: October 25-December 1, 2019 The Phipps Center for the Arts 109 Locust St. Hudson, WI Gallery Hours daily 9 am-4:30 pm (Sunday noon-4:30 pm)IT’S A CELEBRATION! COME JOIN ME! MEET MY SON JOHN, THEPHOTOGRAPHER!The opening reception and celebration is Friday, October 25, 6:30-8:30 pm. Put it on your calendar! […]
