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. […]
SPECIAL EVENT: THE NIGHT
THE NIGHT - A Minneapolis Multimedia Performance SPECIAL EVENT August 3, one night only A one-night Minneapolis multimedia performance by The Night. The Night is a new media ensemble whose work focuses on the interrelations between sound and image. They use musical improvisation and elegant computer programming. Their music features a real-time video. The performance affects their video. Formed in early 2003, the group consists of an ever-changing group of musicians and artists, mostly Oberlin College graduates, including sitar player Ami K. Dang, video artist John Hensel, Travis Johns, who plays bass and electronics, and others. Their work has been featured in many places. This includes the 2003 Placard Experimental Music Festival, The Spaceworks Gallery (NYC), and the Allen Memorial Art Museum. They will preview their East Coast August tour with a performance here in Minneapolis at the Susan Hensel Gallery on August 3, 8 pm-10 pm. Free. Travis Johns work can be heard on Fighter Pilots, available from iTunes Artwork by Susan Hensel Discover intriguing textile art by Susan Hensel. Susan is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career. She combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan [...]
The big unpacking
The big unpacking So many Boxes! And this is only the start! W’sTwisted Meaning by Doug Beube Doug Beube is a mixed-media artist who works in collage, installation, sculpture and photography. He is an independent curator as well as the curator of a private collection for Allan Chasanoff in New York City entitled, The Book Under Pressure, which utilizes the book for purposes other than their utilitarian form. Aunt Nell by Pinky Bass Marion M. Bass, known as Pinky Bass or Pinky/MM Bass, is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography. Shards by Harriet Bart Harriet Bart creates evocative content through the narrative power of objects, the theater of installation, and the intimacy of artists books. She has a deep and abiding interest in the personal and cultural expression of memory; it is at the core of her work. Using bronze and stone, wood and paper, books and words, everyday and found objects, Bart’s work signifies a site, marks an event, and draws attention to imprints of the past as they live in the present. She was the twenty-year collaborator of German artist Helmut Löhr until his death. Bart has been working collaboratively with Boston [...]
Ars Domestica-Mystery
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 [...]
LIFE CYCLES: Encaustic & mixed media about fecundity, growth and mortality
LIFE CYCLES: Encaustic and mixed media about fecundity, growth, and mortality by Leslie Sobel September 9- October 14 Ann Arbor artist Leslie Sobel said of her work, "My work is driven by my fascination with biology. I intend it to be earthy and profound, sexual and ethereal. My mother's recent death from cancer has personalized and deepened intellectual & aesthetic ideas into a passion.". Her work includes encaustic and mixed media styles. About Leslie Sobel Leslie Sobel is the artist daughter of two scientists. The dual perspective of art and science drives her work. Her work reflects her deep focus on climate change and our disconnect from the natural world. She also works integrating wilderness fieldwork in remote places with scientists and time in the studio. In 2017 she camped on an ice field in Yukon Territory with a group of glaciologists and she continues to collaborate with those and other climate scientists focusing on the effects of climate change on the high latitudes. Her BFA is from the University of Michigan, MFA from the University of Hartford. Additionally, she works in mixed media frequently incorporating photography, scientific data and more traditional materials. Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of Susan [...]
It is a process
The Long Process It is a process. Carolyn Halliday loves the process. […]
Project Gutenberg Arrived Today
Project Gutenberg Arrived Today Boxes upon boxes and bags upon bags of artwork arrived today. […]
A not so lackadaisical summer
A not so lackadaisical summer Summer is finally upon us. It is a glorious Independence Day morning, not yet hot. The birds are singing and the flowers swaying in the breeze. The amateur fireworks have been pretty minimal this year. But tonight will be a different story. The skies will light up with both amateur and professional fireworks. […]
Diminution and lovely memories
Diminution and lovely memories Diminution and lovely memories. It does seem that the whole world should be shaking their collective fists and gnashing their teeth at the passing of Debora Miller. I know I am, as are her friends and family. […]
In the Windows- KATE SCIANDRA
In the Windows- KATE SCIANDRA Kate Sciandra Artist’s Statement In the Windows- KATE SCIANDRA. One thing that unifies all my work is the theme of deeply seeing, being seen, and the intimacy that results. During the countless hours spent as a figure model, being an object for others to find aesthetically and artistically useful. I became obsessed with capturing the compositions that would reveal themselves to me while I worked. I began to have a fascination with what it means to be seen and to simultaneously be the seer. Like an optical illusion where from one side, the object becomes the viewer and then with a shift of the eye, flips back again. Having both the regular experience of my body being the subject, and having worked in the healing profession with the bodies of others as my subject for over 20 years. I have a deep understanding of the body as something both intimate and abstract. This pairing has translated and evolved into a way that I perceive, and then reflect the world at large.< Creating a balance of universality and specificity. I work to capture objects, places, and people in ways that penetrate their nature, while [...]