Where Does New Work come from? Vacation? Climate change? Vacation is a bit different for me than many people.I don’t go for the hiking and boating, although I might do both. Well, maybe not the boating. My stiff knees makes getting in and out of my preferred watercraft, canoes and kayaks, hard. […]
Where does new work come from? Somewhere between Pebble beaches and Urban Living. read about the development of New Work at Susan Hensel Projects Not too long ago, I got back from vacation on the shores of Lake Superior. To me, it is the greatest of all the Great Lakes. It is cold, deep and wild! Rarely swimmable and always dangerous to inexperienced fishermen and boaters. I go there every year to decompress, hear myself think and “wash off the city.” […]
Throwing Shade | Supremacist Lace Flags Throwing Shade | Supremacist Lace Flags | Susan Hensel Projects. One of the most interesting things about making art is unexpected discoveries. I work in a highly technical realm, with computers and computer-aided devices, yet I work very intuitively. […]
Seek and Ye Shall Find | Susan Hensel Projects Art is still out in the world as well as online I look all the time. I look deeply at other people’s art every day. Seeking opportunities every day. Finding opportunities every day. I get opportunities sometimes! I’ve had kind of good run-on opportunities lately. Taking chances has paid off. This does not mean that I have avoided rejections, even dearly desired opportunities have rejected me lately. It’s simply part of the process. But sometimes you really do get lucky by taking a chance. […]
No Fields Found.The TELEPHONE GAME Is Now LIVE! Bookish Transitions Long, Long Ago, On A Planet Far Away, Before The Pandemic… This cool collaborative project called the TELEPHONE GAME comes into my sights. In fact, I read about it in the New York Times. Nathan Langston created and ran the first game of TELEPHONE, published in 2015. Due to the state of the world, he initiated the second game in March 2020. Nathan created an experiment of international collaboration that got larger than anyone of us could ever have imagined. In fact, it features over 900 artists from 72 different countries! […]
Have Textile Will Travel! Work from Susan Hensel Projects is always on the move I love my studio! I go to it everyday, except when I was sleeping off the second Moderna Covid 19 shot. It’s not all create! create! create! There is also pack!pack!pack! For new shows!new shows!new shows! Fantastic Fibers, at the Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY; April 1st- May 29, 2021; Fantastic Fibers at the Yeiser Art Center Chromatic Bookblocks Chromatic Bookblocks is in the show with lots of great art by people! Follow them on Facebook and Instagram as their website is under re-construction! With any luck it will be live soon, as well. […]
“I am always amazed at how I arrived here, steeped in digital embroidery, making hard edged sculptures from soft materials!” Chromatic Wave ( I was honored recently to be featured in a profile on The Textile Study Group of NY website with a stellar group of textile artists who work sculpturally! Do check out the other profiles. Enjoy!) [su_divider] My background and training are in the arts with a BFA in sculpture and painting. I worked for many years in ceramics, many years in papermaking, many years in book arts and many years as a gallery director. My “hobby time” was thoroughly fiber: hand spinning, sewing, hand embroidery. Materials with their haptic and scientific qualities always obsess me. […]
ABSTRACT STITCH a Solo Art Show opened! 621 Gallery 621 Industrial Drive Tallahassee, FL 32310 You could say that I went to Florida last week… But that would be a stretch! A solo art show – Abstract Stitch | Susan Hensel Projects! I shipped a whole lot of my work to 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, Florida last week. This was the solo art show, ABSTRACT STITCH, that had been delayed by the pandemic, not once, but TWICE! […]
ABSTRACT STITCH a solo art exhibition by Susan Hensel At 621 Gallery Railroad Square Art Park 621 Industrial Drive Tallahassee, FL 32310 PHONE-850-222-6210 EMAIL-621galleryinc@gmail.com Opening Reception | March 5th, 2021 Doors Open at 6:00 PM | Talk Starts at 7:00 PM Exhibition Dates | 03.05.2021 – 03.26.2021 Abstract Stitch | Susan Hensel Project | solo exhibition […]
Pandemic Projects: Susan Hensel Explores the Effect of Substrate Color on Finished Objects | Textile Art FEBRUARY 26, 2021 ( Published today on the blog of the Surface Design Association.) COLOR INTERACTIONS | Susan Hensel Projects | Textile Art Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist, with a 50+ year career, who combines a mixed media practice with embroidery across digital and manual platforms. She make sculpture and wall art using the colors and techniques of commercial embroidery, designed in the computer and stitched out on the computer-aided embroidery machine. This ongoing pandemic project is called Chromatic Book Blocks. Upon completion, there will be al least 25 modules. Susan Hensel Chromatic Book Blocks 2021, digital embroidery, mixed media. Photo by the artist. […]
