The Gallery is pregnant?

2023-06-08T00:49:02-04:00Articles, News, Art|

The Gallery is pregnant? Things are brewing, even as sabbatical continues. It is an exciting time in the quiet gallery. Nothing is hanging on the wall. Everything is pregnant with potential! The windows are growing and blooming with the art by Debora Miller. Drive by, especially after dark to see them at their best! Soon we will have another South Minneapolis Wild Wool Market: October 23. In December a new show will open...its title is unknown...but it is a collaboration between Susan Hensel and her son John Hensel. John is a fine photographer who is able to take an idea, a glimmer, really, and make it sing. I had a weird idea that involved yarn that told a story. His photography makes that potential story real. Stay tuned for dates! The party will be sometime over the Christmas holidays, since that is when he visits Minneapolis. And then, Dean Ebben's show will open in January. Dean is a local guy who moved on to New York. He comes back every year to see family and to teach at Minnesota Center for Book Arts. On January 14 he will open IN THE HOUSE OF THE MINERAL SPIRITS at Susan [...]

Reader’s Art opening

2023-06-08T00:50:27-04:00Exhibition, News, Art|

Reader's Art opening The opening was wonderful tonight! There was such a crush of people that I could not take pictures after the first half-hour or so. In these pictures, you see the first little bit, when Mary Tasillo arrived for Book Bombing, and old friends met up and caught up. Then I was off, welcoming people, giving them gloves, writing up sales, and keeping an eye on refreshments, etc. Now to settle down and rest for a day or two. 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 Susan Hensel’s current work at www.SusanHenselProjects.com. The Susan Hensel Gallery is now a large window gallery on Cedar Avenue. The main [...]

Radio coverage of Reader’s Art 11

2023-06-08T00:50:45-04:00Exhibition, News, Artists, Art|

Radio coverage of Reader's Art 11Jodi Reeb-Myers and I were interviewed by Jessica Folker of KFAI radio just before the opening of Reader's Art 11. The interview should air next Monday at 7:40 am during the show Takeaway, and either Monday or Wednesday of next week from 7:30-8 pm during the show MinneCulture. The station is at 90.3 pm in Minneapolis and streams live online.Susan Hensel GalleryThe 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 Susan Hensel’s current work at www.SusanHenselProjects.com. The Susan Hensel Gallery is now a large window gallery on Cedar Avenue. The main thoroughfare in south Minneapolis and an online venture represented on Artsy.net.MissionThe focus of Susan Hensel Gallery is on compelling [...]

Michelle Ray: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T00:51:09-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Art|

Michelle Ray: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home Michelle Ray-Admeasure 2011 Text and image printed from photopolymer plates and linoleum blocks on handmade and Somerset Book papers, edition of 35. The act of naming things creates a sense of overall safety at sea. Like the pilot’s verse that guided sailors through dangerous shoals, Admeasure is about gaining a false sense of control through signifiers. And rituals that guide one through a world that is largely uncontrollable. This book explores the dialectic tension between the dangerous unknown and measure, rules and tradition. While at sea, measurements, maritime law, navigation aids, and other modes of dominance. Through the organization is easily lost to the forces of nature and the psychology of a journey. The content of Admeasure draws from a variety of archetypal journeys including Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Homer’s Odyssey, Bas Jan Ader’s In Search of the Miraculous, and my own time spent in small boats. 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 also engaging sculpture. It is [...]

Travels with Leslie

2023-06-08T00:52:26-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Travels with Leslie Leslie Sobel's time in Minneapolis is coming to a close. We had a picnic by the Mississippi River and walked across the Stone Arch Bridge and continued on into the Mill Ruins Park. To observe the archaeological digs preserved for us. Her show runs through the end of the month. Be sure to call to see the work! We will be open Monday's and Friday's, 10-5. We will also be open May 29, 10-4 for the South Minneapolis Wild Wool Market. Be there or be square. 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. This engages both sculptural and cultural space. You can find her current work at www.SusanHenselProjects.com. The Susan Hensel [...]

Threads and nets and wires…knitting a life

2023-06-08T00:56:23-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Threads and nets and wires...knitting a life As Libbie Soffer's work in ars domestica continues to question the threads of relationship and women's work through the ages... Carolyn Halliday's work picks up the thread and makes it hard and soft at once, knitting in copper wire of various gauges, entangling nature and definitions of body and self. Carolyn will lead a dialog with Libbie Soffer on Friday, May 20, around 7pm, as part of the Mending Circle Soiree that begins at 5pm. 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.

COMMUNION preview

2023-06-08T00:59:58-04:00Articles, Artists|

COMMUNION preview COMMUNION preview. Juliet Blacksher, a dear friend of Jon's found out he collected antique fabrics. When she saw this 1930's silkscreen print, she bought all she could and had him make this miniature from some of it. The print is almost cubist with a 50's flair. Jon thinks artists take cues from fabrics more often than we want to imagine. 1998 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. About Susan Hensel Gallery 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 [...]

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