Bending Toward Beauty online solo show While we certainly hope that the pandemic is waning…there are some remaining opportunities that developed during the darkest days: online exhibitions! […]
Tap, Tap, Shuffle or New Opportunities I don’t know about you, but I am dancing as fast as I can in these waning days of the pandemic! […]
Fine Art Embroidery, Fiber Art, & Textile Art By Susan Hensel Is For Sale View the fine embroidered art, fiber art, and textile art by Minneapolis’ own Susan Hensel. Susan is an innovative creator with a wide range of artistic abilities and vision. She has been showing for over fifty years and marries the practice of mixed media with embroidery while utilizing digital and manual principles. […]
Can Beauty help us? Perhaps a manifesto Can Beauty help us? I make art to learn what I am thinking and feeling. While it is always an internal investigation, I am engaged with the world and culture around me. I am a quiet contemplative, a delayed emotional reactor, a visual glutton. I think and mediate, I get mad the next day and I just simply have to look…all the time. From this essential disposition and with study and thought I have adopted a theory for my artmaking that I call “radical beauty.” So, here goes! Starting with a few appropriate quotes. […]
ART is…Episode 1 ART is…Episode 1. Artists are often asked: “Why is THAT art?” Sometimes the person goes on to say, “Isn’t art supposed to be beautiful? ” or “It doesn’t look like anything!”. We artists are always flabbergasted, challenged, unprepared and at a loss for words when asked these questions. For us “THE ART QUESTION” is sort of a settled question or we would not be spending so much time making it! But we are an inarticulate lot! We fumble around to answer your questions! We take Twists and turns and chase rabbits down rabbit holes! So, I thought I’d spend a few blog posts musing on this topic! Maybe you will find it interesting, enlightening, revealing or hogwash! […]
EXHIBITING DURING COVID TIMES Or How to begin to exhibit internationally Exhibiting during Covid Times! Sigh! When the first lock down of covid hit, 100% of scheduled shows for Susan Hensel Projects were either cancelled or indefinitely delayed. Talk about PANIC! My new work was just getting picked up in a meaningful way nationally. I was in beginning conversations with a couple of small galleries. And,”BOOM!” NOTHING. All I could hear was crickets. But ART WILL BE SEEN! […]
Running a growing art studio is running a business…sort-of. So, once again, I am musing about things. My workflow has recently become a bit more than I can sustain. Good things are coming my way a bit more frequently. Even good things take time to accomplish. Fulfilling deadlines and data needs are eating into creative time with materials. Has there been an uptick in income to match this activity? a tiny bit….but mostly the demands on my time have increased. So, once again I had to look at my actual personal financial budget and determine how much I could carve out for a studio assistant and what I needed them to do. […]
