Give it a punch! Christopher Rowley’s Technique The Regrettable Truth of the Cliché by Christopher Rowley opened on Artsy.net today! What amazing work. Four of his pieces are in the Windows on Cedar Project at Susan Hensel Gallery as well, so people who are local or travel to Minneapolis can see them in person. […]
A James Lwrence piece still on the wall This piece is available at the Take Down/ Take Home event scheduled 2/21/09. Stay tuned for more pieces. 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 large scale artwork. Art 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. 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 [...]
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 […]
“Hope is a fragile thing, Peter continued, as fragile as a flower. Its fragility makes it easy to sneer at, by people who see life as a dark and difficult ordeal, people who get angry when something they can’t believe in themselves gives comfort to others. They prefer to crush the flower underfoot as if to say: See how weak this thing is, see how easily it can be destroyed. But, in truth, hope is one of the strongest things in the universe. Empires fall, civilizations vanish into dust, but hope always comes back, pushing up through the ashes, growing from seeds that are invisible and invincible.”-Michael Faber […]
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. […]
Installation The gallery is a quiet studio, talk radio in the background. This Saturday, it will light up with the second South Minneapolis Wild Wool Market. Ideas have been knocking around in my head that involves the little dresses again, but in 3-d with fiber. SO, I today I began. I like the relationships that are developing among the parts, although it is still too linear, simply curated objects rather than a full 3-d experience. I think the placenta dress needs to hang in space rather like the stuffed dress at the left.But with the wool market arriving in a couple of days, I will leave it as is for now. 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 [...]
