What Is Textile Art To Susan Hensel Projects Textile art has many meanings and depends on who you speak with. To the fellow artist, it is another form of expressing yourself. In essence, it means to tell a story to help you feel an emotion. To the viewer, it could offer a sense of subtle beauty and inspiration. For Susan Hensel Projects, textile art is a form of persistence and resilience. […]
INVITATIONAL ART EXHIBITION Susan Hensel OPENING ONLINE SOON Pandemic Art Lessons: A Women’s Art Institute Online Initiative October 26–December 11, 2020 Featured artists invitational art exhibition online: Hend al-Mansour, Rajee Aryal, Leslie Barlow, Beth Bergman, Teresa Cribelli, Rita Collins, Paola de la Calle, Nicole Drilling, Carolyn Halliday, Susan Hensel, Fawzia Khan, Sarah Kilgallon, Catherine Alice Michaelis, Gwen Partin, Nancy Robinson, Natalie Vestin During these months of the COVID-19 pandemic, isolation and social upheaval, artists have turned on their creativity, delving deeply into their studio practice. While some have taken on these events as a subject, others have seemingly worked in opposition to its effect on our lives. In these wide-ranging responses to our invitation, artists demonstrate that art cannot be denied even in these confounding times. Here’s what sixteen invited women and non-binary artists are thinking about now. – Patricia Olson and Paige Tighe, Co-curators Invitational Art Exhibition with Susan Hensel I am exhibiting works completed during the pandemic: Escape Capsule and Chromatic Flutter. About Women’s Art Institute: Since 1999, Women’s Art Institute offers events of interest to contemporary women’s art practice, as well as a four-week summer intensive studio course for advanced women artists of all ages and backgrounds. [...]
Midwestern Biennial & Susan Hensel Projects CHOICE POINT(SAUL) from Susan Hensel Projects will be on view at the 76TH ROCKFORD MIDWESTERN BIENNIAL , OCT 9, 2020–JAN 31, 2021, at the ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM […]
Art Collaboration with Susan Hensel in a Global Context Ensemble Ouvert…Excuse me? The art world is global. How’s that for a statement? And it involves Collaboration. And it is all in context. Living and working in the midwest, it is easy to lose sight of that. Even though this may be obvious when you think about it, what I do, what all artists do, is part of a very large, loosely organized global market of culture producers! No matter what, we all collaborate in a global context these days. But then the question is How do I connect with the larger world of art? It’s pretty much impossible for Americans to travel right now to most countries of the world due to the pandemic. Even if we were brave enough to get on airplanes to fly all over the world, many borders are closed to us right now. […]
Silvermine Art Galleries Susan Hensel Art Exhibition 70 A-One? Silvermine Galleries & Susan Hensel! Art Exhibition 70 A-One? Don’t Miss it! Through October 20, at Silvermine Galleries, in New Canaan, CT. It’s the 70th year of this show and it is a major celebration for this well-known Art Guild. Indeed, I am so pleased to be in this show with Chromatic Wave 2 & Chromatic Curve and to now be a member of this 96 year old artists guild! As part of this show, I participated in a Pecha Kucha! What’s a Pecha Kucha? It is a brief presentation of words and images. Here’s mine! […]
Embroidery Art of Susan Hensel THE BIRTH OF ZIG-ZAG looking, playing, recognizing ZIG ZAG, embroidery art by Susan Hensel, premiering in In and Out of the Fold, is the result of looking and playing and then recognizing a useful composition. Check out our shop here. Much of my time as an artist is spent looking. Not seeing exactly, but actively looking at things. It is simply how I am wired: I need to look at lots and lots of things… a lot. Finding the relationships between shapes and objects. Taking the time to see and train your eyes to see what most people can’t is what art is all about. Awakening the human mind. I enjoy finding the shape of the spaces surrounding an object. While also discerning the shapes of ordinary things and imagining how else that shape could be employed. I also like playing with shapes and objects and diverse materials. […]
New Artwork by Susan Hensel FOLDS UNFURLED a sad story with a happy ending FOLDS UNFURLED, new artwork by Susan Hensel. Often things do not come out as expected, do they? Sometimes the cake falls. Sometimes you are out of a key ingredient and need to improvise. Sometimes the unexpected outcome is SO MUCH BETTER than the planned outcome! That is what makes studio life so exciting! […]
New Reflective Embroidery Art by Susan Hensel REFLECTIVE CONUNDRUM co·nun·drum /kəˈnəndrəm/ noun a confusing and difficult problem or question. a question asked for amusement, typically one with a pun in its answer; a riddle Premiering NOW in In and Out of the Fold New Reflective Embroidery Art by Susan Hensel REFLECTIVE CONUNDRUM by New Reflective Embroidery Art by Susan Hensel is a 6 part sculpture that, through reflection, bending light, color and unusual materials defies definitions and asks questions for which there are no answers. Is it a sculpture? Is it a set of books? Where does it end? Where does it begin? […]
Chromatic Flutter at Susan Hensel Projects In and Out of the Fold @Susan Hensel Projects During the pandemic shutdown, I have been working away. This special online exhibition, In and Out of the Fold, introduces 4 new pieces. New! Chromatic Flutter Susan Hensel Projects Chromatic Flutter: Today I want to show you CHROMATIC FLUTTER. I am so thrilled with this piece! It simply lifts my heart each time I look at it! If you know my work, it is obviously part of the group you might call Chromatics. With this, and many other pieces, I am not only investigating how folds change the shape of a piece, but how the skewing of space changes how color is perceived! […]
Susan Hensel Art Exhibition NOW OPEN! IN AND OUT OF THE FOLD A Susan Hensel Art Exhibition [su_box title=”IN AND OUT OF THE FOLD”]“Susan Hensel’s textile work is a dizzying journey of shifting colors and arresting, yet abstract, form. In and Out of the Fold presents biomorphic shapes and geometric patterns with sumptuous texture, representing Hensel’s long history with transformative, sculptural work.”- Jonathon M Clark, independent critic[/su_box] Susan Hensel Art Exhibition-As the art exhibition world remains sleepy during the pandemic, waking-up oh so slowly around the nation, artists and galleries are moving exhibitions and sales online. So, too, is the textile artist Susan Hensel, introducing new, never before seen artwork to the online audience. […]
