Closeted 1

Description

Closeted is a series of drawings hidden within a set of valises.  Hidden from view is the wildness of older women.

Aging American women are surrounded by images and messages that diminish us. As our skin loses its elasticity, as our breasts ‘head south’, we are shown to be less desirable, less valuable, sexless and risible. We become invisible.

What if the mask of culture is removed and replaced with a foreign mask, an abstract mask? What if the indications of class and gender are removed? What if the cloak of invisibility were lifted?

Open the valise.  Wear a new mask. If you wear a mask, you can do anything!

works on paper/sculpture

[su_box title=”Susan Hensel” box_color=”#2a6bb0″] Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career, who combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. Susan received her BFA from the University of Michigan in 1972 with a double major in painting and sculpture and a concentration in ceramics. With a history, to date, of over 200 exhibitions, more than 30 of them solo, twenty garnering awards. Above all, Hensel’s desire to communicate stories through art continues to be a powerful motivator. Hensel’s artwork is known and collected nationwide, represented in collecting libraries and museums. [/su_box]