Description
Women, in the days of the southern cotillion, could communicate and tell stories through how they held their fans : fully open, fully closed, partially revealed. Something about the spring and lift of this sculptural piece reminded me of a fan about to change its message.
Digital embroidery allows the artist to modulate color and bend light through the angles and the layering of the stitched. When put in the hands of a sculptor, the actual objects can be structured, folded and formed to occupy both real and illusory space.
[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]
