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. […]
Looking For New Art? Look No Further As BOOKISH Is Live! BOOKISH is now available for your enjoyment! This is a special exhibition of new art of textile medium related to artists books. Many of you know that I have a deep background in artists books. Many of the books I created are in major collections all over the place, including the Museum of Modern Art. Every year, I still nerd out and make at least one book. I LOVE books. I covet books. I buy books all the time. So it should be no surprise that I have expressed my love of books in textiles as well as paper and board! […]
I have been thinking a lot about the value of art lately. I intuitively know that it is not just any ordinary commodity, governed directly by costs, supply and demand. While those things are important, they are not the whole story. I have been having these discussions with friends in business for years…and just simply have not had the language or economic understanding to hold up my end of the discussion or get across what I mean. […]
Art Catalogs Hensel Projects Catalogs! Catalogs! Did We Mention Catalogs? Just a little note to let you know that there are FREE art catalogs available from Susan Hensel Projects! The pandemic made me do it! That is, start the special, online, curated exhibitions. As a result, the list of catalogs is growing. Get them here! Take a look below to get a preview and go take a look or download them for later. You can even print them out! […]
INVITATIONAL ART EXHIBITION Susan Hensel OPENING ONLINE SOON Pandemic Art Lessons: A Women’s Art Institute Online Initiative October 26–December 11, 2020 Featured artists invitational art exhibition online: Hend al-Mansour, Rajee Aryal, Leslie Barlow, Beth Bergman, Teresa Cribelli, Rita Collins, Paola de la Calle, Nicole Drilling, Carolyn Halliday, Susan Hensel, Fawzia Khan, Sarah Kilgallon, Catherine Alice Michaelis, Gwen Partin, Nancy Robinson, Natalie Vestin During these months of the COVID-19 pandemic, isolation and social upheaval, artists have turned on their creativity, delving deeply into their studio practice. While some have taken on these events as a subject, others have seemingly worked in opposition to its effect on our lives. In these wide-ranging responses to our invitation, artists demonstrate that art cannot be denied even in these confounding times. Here’s what sixteen invited women and non-binary artists are thinking about now. – Patricia Olson and Paige Tighe, Co-curators [su_divider] Invitational Art Exhibition with Susan Hensel I am exhibiting works completed during the pandemic: Escape Capsule and Chromatic Flutter. About Women’s Art Institute: Since 1999, Women’s Art Institute offers events of interest to contemporary women’s art practice, as well as a four-week summer intensive studio course for advanced women artists of all ages and [...]
Midwestern Biennial & Susan Hensel Projects CHOICE POINT(SAUL) from Susan Hensel Projects will be on view at the 76TH ROCKFORD MIDWESTERN BIENNIAL , OCT 9, 2020–JAN 31, 2021, at the ROCKFORD ART MUSEUM […]
Art Collaboration with Susan Hensel in a Global Context Ensemble Ouvert…Excuse me? The art world is global. How’s that for a statement? And it involves Collaboration. And it is all in context. Living and working in the midwest, it is easy to lose sight of that. Even though this may be obvious when you think about it, what I do, what all artists do, is part of a very large, loosely organized global market of culture producers! No matter what, we all collaborate in a global context these days. But then the question is How do I connect with the larger world of art? It’s pretty much impossible for Americans to travel right now to most countries of the world due to the pandemic. Even if we were brave enough to get on airplanes to fly all over the world, many borders are closed to us right now. […]
Silvermine Art Galleries Susan Hensel Art Exhibition 70 A-One? Silvermine Galleries & Susan Hensel! Art Exhibition 70 A-One? Don’t Miss it! Through October 20, at Silvermine Galleries, in New Canaan, CT. It’s the 70th year of this show and it is a major celebration for this well-known Art Guild. Indeed, I am so pleased to be in this show with Chromatic Wave 2 & Chromatic Curve and to now be a member of this 96 year old artists guild! As part of this show, I participated in a Pecha Kucha! What’s a Pecha Kucha? It is a brief presentation of words and images. Here’s mine! […]
Embroidery Art of Susan Hensel THE BIRTH OF ZIG-ZAG looking, playing, recognizing ZIG ZAG, embroidery art by Susan Hensel, premiering in In and Out of the Fold, is the result of looking and playing and then recognizing a useful composition. Check out our shop here. Much of my time as an artist is spent looking. Not seeing exactly, but actively looking at things. It is simply how I am wired: I need to look at lots and lots of things… a lot. Finding the relationships between shapes and objects. Taking the time to see and train your eyes to see what most people can’t is what art is all about. Awakening the human mind. I enjoy finding the shape of the spaces surrounding an object. While also discerning the shapes of ordinary things and imagining how else that shape could be employed. I also like playing with shapes and objects and diverse materials. […]
