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Susan Hensel Gallery Merges With Susan Hensel Projects

Most of you reading this may know something about me. To compliment my studio practice as Susan Hensel Projects, I have a deep history owning and directing art galleries. It started with Wyrd Sisters in Okemos, Michigan with 2 friends, Sue Ann Long and Linda Kalinich. We ran an art education facility and small gallery in a haunted building! It was a funny little building, one of the oldest in the area. It started as a dry goods store, I think with a hitching post. Then it was a dentist office, and a photography studio, among other untold things in history! It’s also worth noting that tools disappeared and reappeared in mysterious ways. No matter your take on that information, my new venture is the next art gallery to visit.

Susan Hensel Projects Is Your Next Art Gallery To Visit

I was involved with the Art Apartment in East Lansing, MI with artists Leslie Donaldson and Nancy McRay. We introduced mid-Michigan to performance art, installation art and artists books.  We got national coverage, even a mention in ArtNews. Because it was a pretty small news market, we got on TV a lot when the news shows had slots to fill.

When I moved to Minneapolis in 2004, I opened Susan Hensel Gallery. This is a gallery/exhibition space where I presented 6 shows per year plus poetry readings, performances and other events. It was a whirlwind… But a lot of fun! Then, the times changed and the needs of the studio expanded… so in 2013 I returned to full-time studio practice while maintaining shows in the HUGE shop windows. I curated so many local shows, where you can see them here.

2020-21

Enter, Stage Left, The Pandemic, Political and Civic Unrest

[su_pullquote]Paralyzed in the studio, I spent the early parts of the pandemic studying with Christie’s Auction House, Praxis Center for Aesthetic Studies and various other people and agencies, trying to understand how the art market is changing as a result of all this… [/su_pullquote]Paralyzed in the studio, I spent the early parts of the pandemic studying with Christie’s Auction House, Praxis Center for Aesthetic Studies and various other people and agencies, trying to understand how the art market is changing as a result of all this… I decided it was the right time to re-open the channel of Susan Hensel Gallery. It is a division of Susan Hensel Projects and a curated online gallery on Artsy.net. Artsy, founded in 2009, is the premier international online marketplace. They feature over 3,000+ galleries, 850+ museums and institutions, and 80+ international art fairs. These producers also publish artwork on the site that provide collectors a central resource to learn about and purchase artwork from anywhere in the world. In addition, Artsy partners with top auction houses, like Phillips, Christie’s and Sotheby’s.[Wikipedia]

Susan Hensel Gallery on Artsy.net | The Art Gallery To Visit

The focus of the Susan Hensel Gallery is on gripping objects, meaningful use of materials and pleasing sculpture. It is a gallery where experimental ideas and works of the hand join to create unique sensory experiences. It’s gotten off to a soft start with Nina Martine Robinson Neurotangle  and Susan Hensel Projects Bookish. Artists Ingrid Restemayer, Kim Matthews, K. Daphne Koop and Linda King Ferguson have joined the roster of Susan Hensel Gallery. First up, from the roster is Ingrid.

Stitches on the Path to Here

by Ingrid Restemayer

Ingrid Restemayer’s work is a perfect fit for this mission and for the grand opening of Susan Hensel Gallery on Artsy.net. Ingrid defines herself as a fiber artist and printmaker originally from North Dakota. However, she is now based in Minneapolis, MN. Her work is made up of identifiable works in the form of detailed sketches on handmade papers. Some, successively layered and hand-embroidered. She is influenced by landscape in the Northern plains as well. Her endless lines of running stitches and fields of French knots were born out of inspiration from those spaces. Though fiber is not typically a simple medium, her work radiates a peaceful beauty. Though complex, it also offers a sense of calmness through repetition.

[su_box title=”Stitches on the Path to HERE, coming soon” box_color=”#2a6bb0″]by Ingrid Restemayer
February 15-April 15/2021

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR FEB 15!
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