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Susan Hensel

American
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. The Susan Hensel Gallery continues as an online project promoting Midwest artists with a particular interest in materiality on Artsy.net. Hensel has curated over one hundred exhibitions, and supporting events, of emerging and mid-career artists from all over the United States and Canada.
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Neotectonic Period 3 : mixed media collage
Neotectonic Period 3 : mixed media collage

Neotectonic Period 3 : mixed media collage

By Susan Hensel

Located in New York, NY

Collage work of art by Susan Hensel. Hensel was awarded a residency at Virginia Center for Creative Arts in 2021 to create a body of works on paper that relate to a her series of sc...

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2010s Contemporary Susan Hensel

Materials

Paint, Paper, Mixed Media

Neotectonic Period 1 : mixed media collage
Neotectonic Period 1 : mixed media collage

Neotectonic Period 1 : mixed media collage

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Located in New York, NY

Collage work of art by Susan Hensel. Hensel was awarded a residency at Virginia Center for Creative Arts in 2021 to create a body of works on paper that relate to a her series of sc...

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2010s Contemporary Susan Hensel

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Ark-Off The Pier : mixed media collage
Ark-Off The Pier : mixed media collage

Ark-Off The Pier : mixed media collage

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Collage work of art by Susan Hensel. Hensel created this work ruminating on the climate change and its influence on our planet. This topic often becomes apparent in her works on pap...

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2010s Contemporary Susan Hensel

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Textile, Paper, Mixed Media

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