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Windows on Cedar is coming together

2023-06-08T01:20:00-04:00Exhibition, Articles, News, Art|

Windows on Cedar is coming together The Windows on Cedar project is coming together. The windows are scheduled through next fall. They will be filled, soon, by the work of Sarah Claire Ahlers. A local photographer who has taken portraits around the Corcoran Neighborhood of South Minneapolis and will be posting them around the neighborhood starting here, soon. What she is doing is similar to the INSIDE OUT PROJECT. In March and April, in honor of Reader’s Art 12, I will show North-field artist Sharol Nau. […]

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Sharol Nau

2023-06-08T01:20:20-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Sharol Nau Sharol Nau is a North field artist who is obsessed with mathematics. She is NOT a mathematician, but attended a math and art conference on a whim and found the confluence of art and mathematics fascinating.  Her work can be seen in the windows and in the gallery during Reader's Art 12.   My artwork develops from doing.  Inspiration may arise from a location, a sheet of good rag paper, a block of Styrofoam, a stack of books or more. I begin by experimenting with materials until ideas and techniques come together.  Progress demonstrates adjustments along the way but I know when it is finished because it is successfully filled with my visual ideas. Over Thirty Years Of Art Making art for more than thirty years gives me an abundance to draw from.  However there are periods in development when a diversion from my usual practice is required to keep the work fresh and interesting.  Even though it is not readily apparent in this collection of recent book sculptures they are influenced indirectly by visual memories of my trips to a local creek that runs slowly at a bend where trees and rocks block the flow.  The creek is [...]

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Alicia Bailey

2023-06-08T01:20:30-04:00Exhibition, Art|

Alicia Bailey Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Denver artists Alicia Bailey says, "The phrase “home is where the heart is” is one that confounded me in childhood. Others seemed to think that home was a house somewhere. I asked my mother about it once, or maybe more than once. Her response to my idea, if my home is where my heart is, then my body must be my home, was an exasperated “Where do you come up with these ideas?” The conviction that my home is the one that I carry with me everywhere, my physical body, has stayed with me and continues to make sense. I find comfort in the notion of my home as something that is wholly mine. A thing while it can be shared, used, or abused by others, exploited even, belongs to no other. A place that will cease to exist at the same moment that I do. The five books here reference the physical (Shedding), the sensual (Burning Me Open), the psychological (Two Hearts), the spiritual (Mercy) and all the above (Ab)." Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16-April 26, 2012 opening reception Friday, March 16, 7-10 pm Susan Hensel Gallery The focus of [...]

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Maggie Miller

2023-06-08T01:20:46-04:00Articles, News, Artists, Art|

Maggie Miller Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Maggie Miller: "The project is a visual interpretation of the book Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino. Calvino’s book is a dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan as Marco Polo reports on the vast Tartar Empire through the lens of personal insights that arise from interactions in each place. A fourteen-odd page mixed media piece, working with pop-up architecture and found prints, my work creates vignettes of Khan’s cities. Participating in the conversation as a reader reflecting on Polo’s discoveries about the relationship between self and setting. The viewer is given a chance to engage with a city fully assembled. Stretching out like an accordion of compiled images and quotations. Closed, pop-ups retreat back into blank pages. Just as Calvino’s cities themselves are in essence bare canvases. Prints draw on the discussions of the limitations of language in establishing a common vernacular of experience. " Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 12- 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 [...]

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Irene Chan

2023-06-08T01:21:48-04:00Articles, News|

Irene Chan Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Washington, DC artist Irene Chan is continually confronted by stereotypes concerning Asians. Her book,  The Asian American? The project is made from business cards with text that responds to comments and questions that strangers ask Asian Americans. Every week since age 12, I am asked one to ten of the same questions. Since these questions and comments are common to other Asian Americans. As I created a set of business cards to flash or hand out for the appropriate moments. Through the interaction of questions and answers. lasting racial stereotypes and myths of the concept of the “Asian American” are revealed. Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 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 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 [...]

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Kendra Greene

2023-06-08T01:22:07-04:00Articles, Art|

Kendra Greene Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  Texan, Kendra Greene, comes with a story."When my sister bought her first house, its sale came on the condition that she take everything in the house. There were still clothes in the closet, food on the counter, dentures in the bathroom. Everything just as it was when someone came to evacuate the 87-year-old owner from the life he’d been living alone. There were also messages. Throughout the house: a veritable ledger of oil changes scrawled on the garage door. The words “cold backward” were written on the wall above a faucet, and 93 pieces of paper were scattered on the shelves next to a black rotary phone. White Envolopes And Monologes These notes were written on the back of manila envelopes, grocery bags torn into pages, a receipt, white envelopes opened at their seams and pressed flat. They read like transcripts or monologues. They remark variously on the quality of Australian wine and the cost of Chinese dinners. But mostly they chronicle the writer’s failing faculties. His fears about aging, and intense loneliness. After four decades in one place, his home has become something to escape. In his notes, he longs [...]

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LaThoriel Badenhausen

2023-06-08T01:22:12-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

LaThoriel Badenhausen Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home  New York artist LaThoriel Badenhausen wrote: "Paper dolls!  Growing up poor in rural Minnesota, my paper dolls were wrinkled, faded dolls culled and cut from the Christmas Sears Roebuck catalog. Every year, I received a bounty of new paper dolls in the mail.  (Montgomery Ward’s “dolls” were inferior).  My paper dolls were constant friends during days spent indoors waiting out a blizzard. Schiaparelli Fashion Paper Dolls remind me of that place, those days.  Just as a child I pasted new dresses to a doll when I became bored with her fashion presence or posture, I have transformed the dated Schiaparelli paper dolls by giving each doll a face evident in the currently fashionable art context.  Yoko Ono, Pamela Lehman, Nara, Cattelan, Warhol, Jesus and his disciples and McCarthy’s “Tomato Head”."  Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home March 16-April 26, 2012 opening reception Friday, March 16, 7-10 pm 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/ [...]

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Robin Ross: Reader’s Art 12 Longing For Home

2023-06-08T01:22:25-04:00Articles, News, Artists|

Robin Ross: Reader's Art 12 Longing For Home Reader's Art 12: Longing for HomeRobin Ross  Aerie and Prayers of Being Winged Home to me as the person Robin is very much about belonging to the community.  Practicalities such as structure and spirituality both occur and can enhance our belonging.  Home to me as the creature Robin, or as any other bird, is about flying and looking below and above, about survival, wanting long life for the continuation of my species.  As a creature I am always connected to my environment - questions of spirit and belongingness don't occur.   I am a painter. I paint paintings and sometimes re-create old unwanted books through the use of carving and painting and drawing. Book as an object and art allows me to enhance what already exists.  I’m both playful and serious when using serendipity and precision in cutting, manipulating, collating, and painting. The books are unique, and usually graffitied, foxed, water damaged, or otherwise unwanted. This combines my love of language with visual and sensual art. Often the old paper, the smell, and the description of knowledge and poetry inspire what I paint; inversely, what I paint may evoke more writing.  In the case of these [...]

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Karen Hanmer

2023-06-08T01:22:36-04:00Articles, News, Art|

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 [...]

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