Soldier PJ’s

2023-06-08T01:00:09-04:00Articles|

Soldier PJ's These were Jon's pajamas when he was 6 years old. Before the time of Disney and Warner Brothers cartoon characters, boys were limited cowboys, toy soldiers and the occasional deer. Jon loved his soldier pjs dearly. Speaking of deer, his family went on a camping trip and had to take their pjs with them. It rained the whole way there and since they were pulling a boat behind the car everything in the boat became very wet. Once they set up the tent his mom thought is would be a good idea to try to dry out their clothes on the grill. For whatever reason, she chose to dry out Jon's flannel red housecoat with the deer heads first. Almost immediately they caught on fire. Luckily his soldier pajamas weren’t harmed at the time. Incidentally, after this horror and Jon's crying for a solid hour, his family decided to call it quits in the middle of the night and head home. They were tired, sad, broken hearten and very damp. It was their first and last camping trip as a family. Memories, memories. 2006 Don't forget! Reader's Art ends April 15, whether you have filed your [...]

It’s Monday and I’m still working

2023-06-08T01:02:54-04:00Exhibition, Articles, News, Artists|

It's Monday and I'm still working It's Monday. It's 8 pm and I am still working. What else is new?   Well, it is the last day of the regular gallery schedule for the next 6 months! Leslie Sobel on the Stonearch Bridge overlooking the great Mississippi River. Zach and I packed Leslie Sobel's show today...if you missed it you can see it in the gallery archives...show #40!!!! Times sure does fly when you are having fun. Leslie showed at the beginning of the second season and at the end of the 7th season. Rather nice, if uneven, brackets.   "SO", you ask, "Now what?"   Well...I sat in the yard for a bit today and mused with Zach about the difficulty we both have at not working (Hence, it is now 8:15 pm and I have been at it since before 10 am.) I am already thinking of ways to use the gallery, before we re-commence in January.   I am considering doing an artyarn show in the fall...I am considering truncating the yearly schedule to September through May or June...I am considering having a fiber oriented set of summer shows each year...I am considering.... Art yarn [...]

South Minneapolis Wild Wool Market Arrives!

2023-06-08T01:03:32-04:00Exhibition, Articles, News, Art|

South Minneapolis Wild Wool Market Arrives! South Minneapolis Wild Wool Market at Susan Hensel Gallery• 3441 Cedar Ave S • Minneapolis   Demonstrations! Refreshments! Yarn! Fiber! Roving! Batt Your Own Wild Batt!   This new experiment will start Memorial Day Weekend...When you are out shopping yard sales, stop by and shop with us! You will find great values in materials and finished textile products from local artisans.   The tentative line up for May 29 is:   Sue Hensel: batts, roving, yarn, Batt Your Own Wild Batt station and/or spinning demo Kat Corrigan: Frankensweaters and sewing demo Pauline Mitchell: weaving, tapestry demo Stefanie Moss: weavings from handyed yarn Pam Angier: miscellaneous fiber goodness from the Fiber Studio 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 in an intimate space, with hardwood floors and high tin ceilings. The Susan Hensel Gallery is now both a window gallery on Cedar Avenue, the main thoroughfare in south Minneapolis and an online venture represented on Artsy.net. In March 2013, the interior space reverted to a working studio for Susan Hensel [...]

Books are accumulating

2023-06-08T01:04:56-04:00Articles, Artists, Art|

Books are accumulating WATER BOOK VENEZIA V, LIBRO D'ACQUA DELLA LAGUNA #2 by Claire Jeanine Satin Claire Jeanine Satin has been awarded 3 artist residencies to Venice, Italy by the Emily Harvey Foundation - in 2009, 2012 and in 2015. During these residencies, she pursued her research on the waters and gardens of the City. Following her residencies, she produced two short videos: "The Waters of Venice: Remembering Henry James" and "Water Veils". Scream at the Librarian by Mark Wagner Mark Wagner is an American artist best known for meticulous collages made of United States banknotes, such as the portrait of Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke, composed exclusively of one-dollar bills, in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery I Always Had Wings by Camille Boggs Boggs grew up on the Gulf Coast and graduated from Ocean Springs High School in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. She completed her bachelor of arts in papermaking/book arts and sculpture in 2004 at the Memphis College of Art, including a semester in Italy. In 2005 she and her husband, Thaddeus, lost their home in Ocean Springs to Hurricane Katrina. They ended up settling in Argo where they founded their Two-Tailed [...]

There is a certain mystery that lurks here…

2023-06-08T01:05:35-04:00News, Artists, Art|

There is a certain mystery that lurks here... Just off the center of the gallery lurks a mystery: a house that neither hides nor quite shelters space. Enclosed in this house is our basic human vulnerability. It stands like a ghost, a chimera, a reminder that our sense of control and safety is a necessary trope that allows us to live in this world. When you look through it, it softens our vision like sweet nostalgia. ars Domestica continues through the end of the month, May 28. More Mending Circles remain. Bring your mending and your stories. Libbie Soffer will provide company, expertise, or her own nimble fingers, as needed.   Mending Circle times: May 16, 17, 18 & 23, noon-5pm Friday, May 20, 5 pm until around 7 pm when Carolyn Halliday will lead a discussion with Libbie about her work. And, remember, the Susan Hensel Gallery is always open Monday 10-5 and on other days by very generous appointment. Textile Art by Susan Hensel Discover the transformative textile art by Susan Hensel. Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist. With a 50+ year career. She combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. She [...]

A not so lackadaisical summer

2023-06-08T01:06:25-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Embroidery Art, Art|

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. […]

In the Windows: Lyz Wendland

2023-06-08T01:17:09-04:00Articles, Artists, Art|

In the Windows: Lyz Wendland Stillwater, MN artist, Lyz Wendland Received a Minnesota Artists Initiative Grant to create and mount this site specific installation. While it is similar to her Phipps Center for the Arts installation, pictured above. It was made especially for these windows on Cedar Avenue. For best viewing, come by after dark and see them glow! Lyz Wendland artist statement My work reflects my interest in mapping and architecture. Especially the appeal of repetition and the reassuring promise of reliability. My mainly abstract pieces deal with the comfort offered by repeating forms and actions and they examine the subtle rigidity of my cookie-cutter neighborhood. Which offers a sometimes clear and sometimes blurred delineation between public and private spaces. The connection of the everyday mundane intertwines with predictability of structure. The lines, shapes and forms I observe in my suburban neighborhood inspire my current body of work made up of layered process of drawing, painting, installation and sculpture. 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 [...]

In the Windows- KATE SCIANDRA

2023-06-08T01:16:24-04:00Exhibition, Articles, Art|

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 [...]

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