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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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Sun Young Kang: Reader’s Art 12

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

Sun Young Kang: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12:Longing for Home   Sun Young KangMost people experience the situation of being a “fish out of water.” As a foreigner far from my country, the meaning of this phrase has become painfully evident to me. In my experience, homesickness has not merely been a feeling of melancholy but something more like the suffering a real fish out of water might experience. I have struggled with my identity as an outsider, lost the ability to express myself because of language barriers, and struggled in a different culture. The fish in this book represents me: I have not been able to escape the feeling of being an outsider badly missing my home. However, the true focus of this book is that if we have patience and are willing to make an effort, there is always hope in even the most desperate of situations. For fish, water is their home and gives them life. Although the fish out of water could not survive. At the end of this book, it creates its own water. We can never permanently leave or lose our homes. Because our true home is what we create throughout our [...]

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Jennifer Vignone: Reader’s Art 12

2023-06-08T01:25:38-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Jennifer Vignones Here: Reader's Art 12 Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home   Jennifer Vignone Fall 2011 Kitakata, Gampi, encaustic, linoleum cut, gold leaf, pencil, original text, ink, nails, wood.  Following is the text of the book.  "Let me die," he says. He is yelling it at Mom, at the nurse, there in his room,  at me at the long end of the phone, and at God --hovering, as he'd like to hover, freed from his stagnant frame."I'm old and want to die in peace. "All the yelling doesn't seem peaceful but I know it is what he wants. We had to remove the gun and knives after we caught him with the .22 in his mouth. Were his hands too arthritic as he fumbled for the trigger?  Or was he, even then, thinking it over? I wondered what it would have been,  over the phone, to hear the silence after the blast?  "Why didn't I find you on the floor?" she demanded. He had threatened to throw himself from the bed in an effort to kill himself. In the delicately gnarled strands of their life together, they felt out the hereafter. Mom negotiated the exit as he struggled in his unresponsive shell. [...]

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Progress toward performance

2023-06-08T01:28:19-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Progress toward performance Progress toward performance. Intrepid. Deliberate. Calm. The steps toward the performance Friday are being taken. Rather like planning for a mountainous trek. The Sherpa's are gathered (Dale Kennedy, Dean Ebben Senior, Me), the materials organized and assessed. Weights and measures are taken. The scene, from the metaphoric peak I seem to have imagined, is being set. 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 together. Just 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 that engages both sculptural and cultural space. 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 [...]

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The gallery is stirring, with much new work

2023-06-08T01:53:27-04:00Exhibition, News, Artists, Art|

The gallery is stirring, with much new work The gallery is stirring and a re-birth of sorts is underway. My personal work is all over the walls. I have begun working with four of the upcoming artists who have shown here in 2011, beginning with Dean Ebben. Then will come Reader's Art 11: Urban/Urbane, followed by Libbie Soffer, Carolyn Halliday, and Debora Miller. In addition to the wool market tomorrow, Sat, Oct 23, 10-4...You can see a show of what I have been doing during this sabbatical! The walls are covered, nearly to the ceiling, with new work. Come and see! 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. All 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 [...]

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Reader’s Art is ready to be seen!

2023-06-08T01:57:13-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Reader's Art is ready to be seen! t is always exciting! The work is hung, the labels are attached, the lights are balanced! It's another opening! Another show! Sing, everybody! Sing! All that's left to do is a little housecleaning! Reader's Art eleven opens Friday, March 4, 7pm! Susan Hensel Gallery he 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. 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.

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Ebben Install Begins

2023-06-08T02:01:10-04:00Articles, News, Art|

Ebben Install Begins I am excited! This show will grow as the week proceeds. Today, the first load of parts arrived and the primary screen was built. It always begins as a mess! Bags of parts and tools, boxes of framed gouaches. In the House of the Mineral Spirits installation, performance, works on paper by Dean Ebben   January 14- February 28, 2011   Opening performance and reception for the artist Friday, January 14, 6-10pm 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. About Susan Hensel Gallery – Contemporary Art by Susan Hensel Opened September 10th, 2004 Susan Hensel Gallery was [...]

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Reader’s Art & Debora Miller

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

Reader's Art & Debora Miller Minneapolis artist Debora Miller is working on a window installation, murmur, for Reader's Art 10. Last night, the windows glowed with the first images. There will be more. Even tonight there are some tree shapes projecting from behind. 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 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 where she continues to work on small and large scale artwork with an attitude. You can find her current work at Susan Hensel Projects

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