Items Similar to Susan Hensel_Hard Geometry 4_embroidery on fabric mounted on painted Arches
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 2
Susan HenselSusan Hensel_Hard Geometry 4_embroidery on fabric mounted on painted Arches2017
2017
About the Item
Susan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. She transfers the design to the embroidery machine, assign the colors and stitch. The stitch-out creates a module. From the modules, Hensel proceeds to create the final piece, using whatever other materials are necessary to complete the idea.
Hensel has chosen to work in this field because of the revolutionary, mind-blowing color possibilities. Each thread provides multiple tones of a single color because of the unique triangular structure of the thread. When the thread-color choices are made in relation to other threads and the background color of the fabric.
Using a minimal number of colors and basic techniques Susan Hensel creates sparkling, changeable chromas by exploiting the physics of light as it interacts with the structure of the triangular embroidery thread. The light scatters in multiple directions, off the sides of the triangular thread, creating different tones and saturations of the base color. She also exploits the science of optics, relying, like the French painter Seurat, on our brain’s ability to optically mix spots of color in close physical proximity with one another. Further relying on the principles of color as taught by Joseph Albers and Johannes Itten et al, Hensel exploits the vibratory effects of complementary colors and close saturation split complements. All of this creates a real-time, changeable optical environment activated by the viewer’s movement from side to side as they view the artwork.
Historically, flatness is a key characteristic of most embroidery. Hensel's work breaks ground by engaging with sculptural space. She uses thread and fiber techniques to shift light and perception through structures in the real world. Relying on an extensive knowledge of her materials, Hensel creates small to large-scale hard-edge sculpture from soft fabrics that paradoxically keep their crisp form with minimal armatures.
Hensel creates a compelling viewer experience: one of puzzling beauty, playfulness and sometimes awe. The work invites people to slow down, engage in a place of wonder, enter a more contemplative state, giving themselves time to fall in love with this world and each other again.
Biography
Susan Hensel received her BFA from University of Michigan in 1972 with a double major in painting and sculpture and a concentration in ceramics. She has a history, to date, of more than 300 exhibitions, 35 of them solo, more than twenty garnering awards. In the coming two years, Susan has solo, 2-person, and group exhibitions scheduled in Ellicot, MD, Bloomington, MN, Hopkins, MN, Duluth, MN, and the Garrett Museum of Art, Garrett, Indiana.
Hensel's artwork is known and collected nationwide, represented in collecting libraries and museums as disparate as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Getty Research Institute with major holdings at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, University of Washington, Baylor University and University of Colorado at Boulder. Archives pertaining to her artists books are available for study at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle.
Her new innovative work that blends commercial embroidery processes with sculptural concerns is gaining attention and awards. Susan’s knowledge of materials makes it possible for her to create small to large-scale hard-edge sculpture from soft fabrics that paradoxically keep their crisp form with minimal armatures. Her knowledge of the physics of color allows her to create shape-shifting displays employing the special reflective characteristics of embroidery thread.
In recent years Hensel has been awarded multiple grants and residencies through the Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, Art to Change the World, and Ragdale Foundation.
Hensel's curatorial work began in 2000 in East Lansing, Michigan with the Art Apartment and deepened with ownership of the Susan Hensel Gallery in Minneapolis. Hensel has curated over one hundred exhibitions, and supporting events, of emerging and mid-career artists from all over the United States and Canada.
- Creator:Susan Hensel (American)
- Creation Year:2017
- Dimensions:Height: 26 in (66.04 cm)Width: 26 in (66.04 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Darien, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU172210503642
About the Seller
5.0
Vetted Seller
These experienced sellers undergo a comprehensive evaluation by our team of in-house experts.
Established in 2014
1stDibs seller since 2015
141 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: 10 hours
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Indianapolis, IN
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 7 days of delivery.
More From This SellerView All
- Susan Hensel_Hard Geometry 6_embroidery on fabric mounted on painted ArchesLocated in Darien, CTSusan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
MaterialsFabric, Acrylic, Archival Paper
- Susan Hensel_Hard Geometry 1_embroidery on fabric mounted on painted ArchesLocated in Darien, CTSusan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
MaterialsFabric, Acrylic, Archival Paper
- Susan Hensel_Hard Geometry 3_embroidery on fabric mounted on painted ArchesLocated in Darien, CTSusan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
MaterialsFabric, Acrylic, Archival Paper
- Susan Hensel_Hard Geometry 2_embroidery on fabric mounted on painted ArchesLocated in Darien, CTSusan Hensel designs images in the computer using specialized software. It is a form of drawing in stitches that combines aspects of both Adobe Photoshop...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media
MaterialsFabric, Acrylic, Archival Paper
- Nancy Baker, Be Just, 2014, glitter, acrylic paint, archival paperBy Nancy BakerLocated in Darien, CTNancy Baker creates paper constructions by combining digitally printed, hand and laser cut geometric forms loosely based on machine parts. Over time, the hardware imagery has evolved...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsGlitter, Acrylic, Archival Paper
- Nancy Baker, 19th Amendment, 2017, paper, acrylic paint, digital pigment printBy Nancy BakerLocated in Darien, CTIn Baker’s work, there is solace in the geometry of fundamentals, and a practice that focuses on the ephemeral nature of paper and the ease of its transportability, which allows he...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsPaper, Acrylic, Digital Pigment
You May Also Like
- Fire- red 3D organic feel contemporary abstract mural sculpture in foamLocated in New York, NYErin Vincent is a Toronto based-artist whose work draws on a variety of repetitive and labor intensive processes and materials. Things and common objects have always fascinated Vinc...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsResin, Foam, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
- Paper Shale- black 3D organic feel contemporary abstract mural sculptureLocated in New York, NYErin Vincent is a Toronto based-artist whose work draws on a variety of repetitive and labor intensive processes and materials. Things and common objects have always fascinated Vinc...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsResin, Foam, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
- Swept 1- black 3D organic feel contemporary abstract mural sculptureLocated in New York, NYErin Vincent is a Toronto based-artist whose work draws on a variety of repetitive and labor intensive processes and materials. Things and common objects have always fascinated Vinc...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsResin, Foam, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
- Lapis - 3D small contemporary blue abstract round mural sculptureLocated in New York, NYErin Vincent is a Toronto based-artist whose work draws on a variety of repetitive and labor intensive processes and materials. Things and common objects have always fascinated Vinc...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsAcrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
- White Burst 2 - 3D organic feel contemporary abstract mural sculpture in foamLocated in New York, NYErin Vincent is a Toronto based-artist whose work draws on a variety of repetitive and labor intensive processes and materials. Things and common objects have always fascinated Vinc...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsResin, Foam, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
- White Path - 3D small contemporary abstract round mural sculptureLocated in New York, NYErin Vincent is a Toronto based-artist whose work draws on a variety of repetitive and labor intensive processes and materials. Things and common objects have always fascinated Vinc...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
MaterialsAcrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper
