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Upcoming show – Viewpoints 2025, Montclair NJ

2025-04-21T15:32:52-04:00Articles, Exhibition|

Susan Hensel – Upcoming show – Viewpoints 2025, Montclair NJ At long last, Susan Hensel is showing in exhibitions once again! Susan has a few shows coming up this spring and into summer, the first of which opens on Friday, Viewpoints 2025. It is an annual juried group show put together by New Jersey-based gallery, Montclair Studios, that she participated in last year as well. Viewpoints 2025 marks the gallery’s 28th year of putting on the juried exhibition and features over 60 artists from across the country. This year, Susan submitted a piece from her Neotectonic Period series, Atmospheric Event 3. There are four atmospheric event pieces in the Neotectonic series which symbolize a pulling apart of the atmosphere. The work deals metaphorically with the effects of climate change, globally and universally.  […]

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Have you seen Susan? | Susan Hensel Textile Art |

2024-08-06T23:21:58-04:00Art, Articles, News, Exhibition|

“Hey, Marge…Have you seen Susan recently? View new Textile Art by Susan Hensel “I hear she got her mojo back?” REALLY?   It sometimes seems like I’ve been sleeping, or drifting around underwater, amorphous, like jellyfish or plankton, settling like Marine Sediment. View more textile art below. Other times, the studio was aflame with fury! Strange creatures arrived on pure white paper unbidden, in all their Compressed Complexity! And at yet other times, it required magical, mysterious navigational devices to find my way to the studio, like the Ancient Mariners  textile art of yore. […]

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Create Beyond Limits | Susan HenselProjects

2024-05-23T12:21:04-04:00Art, Articles, News|

Image by Freepik   Creating Beyond Limits Create Beyond Limits with Susan Hensel. I know!  I know!  It’s been a long time since I posted. Creating beyond limits is happening, but the limits are real.  So, you will have to wait a bit longer as I wend my way through physical  therapy and recovery. By the way, recovery is actually going very well.  I am grateful that Dorothy Watson has written another guest post to share with you about the business of being an artist!   READ ON! […]

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The Balls You Cannot See Coming | Unintended Results | Susan Hensel Art

2025-04-14T12:36:11-04:00Articles, News, Exhibition|

The Balls You Cannot See Coming Bring Unintended Results Life throws all kinds of balls at you. (Didn’t I just say that in a recent post?) Soft balls, beach balls, bouncy balls, bowling balls… You haven’t heard from me much lately…like since at least February? Things have been full of surprises around here…not all of them fun. […]

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Saying “Yes” | Opportunity Knocks

2025-04-14T12:44:06-04:00Articles|

Saying “Yes” When Opportunity Knocks I just sent out a New Year’s Newsletter  from Susan Hensel Gallery + Projects.  The responses are mostly “Out-of-office” replies that need to be looked at.  But there are also sweet, nice emails from friends and clients.  The “kudos” that we all enjoy when then arrive. The social network responses about how hard I work.   I do work hard, I guess, between an appalling number of appointments and administration tasks. But I also work with great joy. I am always experimenting on multiple fronts at all times, assembling parts and ideas until, seemingly all at once, multiple pieces come together and are completed. So, while it looks like I suddenly made 3 new pieces, the reality is that they have been kicking around the studio, sometimes for months, before I have to put my foot down and “finish it up, dammit!” […]

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What’s Your Story | Christie’s Marketing | Susan Hensel Projects

2023-01-05T12:13:39-05:00Articles, News, Exhibition|

WHAT’S YOUR STORY? Christie’s Marketing And why should you care?   I just attended my second Christie’s Auction House education program.  This one is on marketing.  I have enjoyed the education I receive from Christie’s. It’s mighty spendy, but the courses have great depth. You get to listen to global experts and representatives from the business of art. The first session  of  Marketing, Communications and PR for the Art World was all about brand development. […]

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Finding Your way | Persistence | Susan Hensel Projects

2025-04-14T16:17:33-04:00Articles|

Finding your way takes persistence and maybe a few wayfinding devices. Finding your way takes persistence and maybe a few wayfinding devices. It is easy to get myopic in the studio.  We artists tend to get caught up in the details: each blade of grass offers an opportunity to linger. And then…there are the droplets of dew!!!  Oh My!  It is all so beautiful! Awe inspiring!  I could gaze at it forever! Such GREEN! Green is a hard color to work with…what am I gonna’ do? Is it going to be a painting?  Where’s the canvas?  Or shall I stitch it?  Maybe beads? OOPS!  I forgot what I was doing! […]

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Collecting Art on a budget | Why does art cost so much | Susan Hensel Projects

2022-08-05T00:25:22-04:00Articles|

Collecting Art… on a Budget? And, why does art cost so much? I love art.  I make art and I sometimes wonder, too.  I make art that I cannot easily afford! Collecting Art on a budget. You and I see the news flashes about auction prices at 10’s of millions of dollars.  You go to galleries and museums and see tiny, precious things, or huge piles of ordinary detritus and you wonder, ” What gives here?”  I get asked questions from time to time. […]

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Being a public facing artist | Make Art | Susan Hensel Projects

2025-04-14T12:56:07-04:00Articles|

Being a public-facing artist? “What on earth does she mean?” People make art for lots of good reasons. For some artmaking is a hobby, fit into their days and weeks for the sheer pleasure of creation.  They may sometimes share/give away the artwork to trusted friends and family. They may display the artwork around their homes. For some, making art is a way to understand themselves.  It is therapeutic, soothing, a mostly private act like journaling. For some it is a spiritual act, like prayer or meditation. For some of us, making art is or becomes a passion that produces more art than one can display at home or in the homes of friends and families. […]

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What is Art Storage | Next steps | Susan Hensel Projects

2022-07-22T16:10:21-04:00Articles|

What is Art Storage? or What are the next steps on the Triptik? What is Art Storage. In the last blog post I talked about finding my way in this long, circuitous career. At the first of every year I sit down and write some goals for the year. It’s more like a task list in my case. My tasks this year revolve around taking care of the artwork and meeting with my attorney to update the estate plans as necessary. […]

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