IN THE WINDOWS: SANDRA BRICK

FEBRUARY/MARCH

all?

(white shirts from second-hand stores, hand-dyed thread and clothes pins)

Sandra Brick
2020

The U.S. Declaration of Independence begins with the assertion that all are endowed with “certain unalienable rights.” Specifically, the nation’s founders listed, “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

The last three words of the Pledge of Allegiance, an expression of loyalty to country and flag, promise, “justice for all”.

With these shirts, I wonder if the US Government is protecting these “unalienable rights” for ALL. Is our government truly providing justice for all?’

I ask the viewer, “Are you a bystander just waiting to see if the promise of the Declaration of Independence is upheld or a upstander making sure everyone’s unalienable rights are protected?

Bio

Working with my hands has been an integral part of my daily life since childhood. Being a textile artist is, for me, an ongoing activity. I dye and stitch and invent new ways to embellish fabric. By sculpting with fiber, I incorporate space and texture into my designs. Creating art involves solving problems, discovering possibilities, merging ideas, and sharing who I am.

Over the past 20 years I have developed a diverse body of work including a set of 42 embroidered pieces that visually interpret haikus written by a local poet, 24 visual “translations” of memories written by a local Holocaust survivor, ten separate works of art depicting different themes for an interfaith artist circle.

Embracing ambiguity is the start of my process. Knowledge is part of the process. Yet there is room for discovery and confusion. For me, art is really about being open to surprise.

Recently I have started aiming my work toward exploring social justice. Can the needle be used as a call to action?

Learn more at: www.texturedelements.com

Feast of Famine? It's newsletter time!

http:// www.susanhenselprojects.com

I DWELL IN IMPOSSIBILITY

October 25-December 1, 2019

The Phipps Center for the Arts

109 Locust St.

Hudson, WI

Gallery Hours daily 9am-4:30 pm (Sunday noon-4:30 pm)

IT'S A CELEBRATION! COME JOIN ME! MEET MY SON JOHN, THE

PHOTOGRAPHER!

The opening reception and celebration is Friday, October 25, 6:30-8:30pm

Put it on your calendar!

I am so pleased to share this with you. The collaborative suite of photographs, I DWELL IN IMPOSSIBILITY, that my son John and I worked on, is about to be exhibited in its entirety for the second time on roughly five years, and he is flying in from Boston to be at the opening!

John is a powerful artist and thinker in his own right. We have collaborated before

and would more often,I suspect, if Boston weren't so far away! The idea for this

began many years ago while I was at a residency in Illinois. I wondered what it meant

when a woman wore a "power suit." Time passed, I aged and I wondered what would

it mean if a grey-haired woman, with a "pregnant belly" wore a "power suit?"

As luck would have it, I had shoulder surgery and John flew out to check up on me.

We talked some more about the idea. He costumed me, I took my drugs and he

directed me. The photoshoot brought out all kinds of dissonances concerning age,

gender and power.

It has been a very successful group of artworks. Portions of this suite have been

exhibited all across the country.

Do come and meet him and say "HI" to me as well.

The reception and celebration is Friday, October 25, 6:30-8:30pm

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In Other News

Feast or famine; Flood or drought.

That is the way of the art world. You send out failing proposals, rejection after

rejection seemingly forever. And then the dam breaks and you are overwhelmed with

opportunities for exhibition. The studio is at "flood stage" right now!

TORUS INTERIOR is being exhibited at

the Art League of Rhode Island, in One-Zero-One

HEATWAVE is on exhibit at the

Farmington Museum, in Farmington New Mexico

CASCADE is on exhibit at the St. Louis Art

Guild, as part of the Surface Design Association shows.

HORIZON is featured in the Surface

Design Association Journal

SKEWED GEOMETRY is at Webster

University as part of the Surface Design Association festivities.

And, by the time you see me again, I will be a "Certified Ricoma Technician." But,

please, do not try to hire me! I am taking an intensive course on maintaining and

repairing my new commercial embroidery machine!

Hope to see you soon.

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In the Windows- KATE SCIANDRA

Kate Sciandra

Artist’s Statement

One thing that unifies all my work is the theme of deeply seeing, being

seen, and the intimacy that results.

During the countless hours spent as a figure model, being an object for

others to find aesthetically and artistically useful, I became obsessed with

capturing the compositions that would reveal themselves to me while I

worked. I began to have a fascination with what it means to be seen and

to simultaneously be the seer, like an optical illusion where from one side,

the object becomes the viewer and then with a shift of the eye, flips back

again.

Having both the regular experience of my body being the subject, and

having worked in the healing profession with the bodies of others as my

subject for over 20 years, I have a deep understanding of the body as

something both intimate and abstract. This pairing has translated and

evolved into a way that I perceive, and then reflect the world at large.

Creating a balance of universality and specificity, I work to capture objects,

places, and people in ways that penetrate their nature, while also creating

an image that has an aesthetic distance, sometimes reaching into the

abstract. This generates a tension that is compelling for the viewer,

drawing them into an even deeper relationship with the subject and the

work itself.

WINDOWS ON CEDAR-Alice Savitski

The Price We Pay

by Alice A Savitski

The price we pay to keep a secret
The price we pay to stay silent
The price we pay to look the other way
The price we pay to say, "It’s not my business."
The price we give to hold back
The price Christ gave for us to be forgiven
The price that was paid for us to feel grace
The price that is given to all of us (Psalm 16:8 AMP)

The price we ALL pay.

This body of work has been created to illustrate the heavy price paid by victims of domestic abuse. Even after the abuse has stopped, the suffering continues for many. For some the pain is permanent. Speaking as a victim of domestic abuse, I must work through my memories, emotions and endure the psychological disorders I have as a result.

I currently live a peaceful, calm and balanced life - but some days my past will haunt me. In 2012 I was committed for attempted suicide. Treatment helped me greatly and gradually I began to feel safe again, but the psychological burden of the violence I suffered will still rear its ugly head and I will start to remember these harrowing events in a “flood of emotions.” This body of works began in June 2015. The first memory arose on a warm summer morning where I found myself panicking from the ghosts of my past. I felt like I couldn’t breathe. For ten short minutes, in the clutches of sheer terror, I had no idea where I was. This body of works I hope will display those feelings and the recovery progress.

Glitter: The unconscious mind
Circles: Cycles of abuse
Bird(s): One bird signifies victims of abuse being set free, or the knowledge of hope. Two birds signify partnerships (for good, bad or indifferent). Three birds signify the Holy Sprit, God and Christ.
Lines: My and/or abused victims’ experience of post-traumatic stress disorder, mental illness, limited finances and psychological problems after leaving the abusive relationship.
Splatter paint: My feelings of entrapment, isolation and shame

I am an emerging mix media artist who is creating body of works that educates the public about domestic abuse and how it impacts all of us. As a victim of domestic abuse, I have been able to overcome violence through prayer and the Holy Spirit. I work through past experiences by creating beautiful healing sprit-driven bodies of work to display my physical and mental emotions. In 2012, an unknown donor gave me a gift of self-awareness and self-love treatment at North Memorial Mental-Health Clinic. Because of this donor, I have a new outlook on life, and I know that I AM WORTH it. NOT Worthless. Within weeks I’d learned many amazing life skills such as boundaries, to forgive others and myself, how to work through my feelings without committing suicide by talented compassion therapists.

Over the past five years, I have made great gains in my personal life; I have exhibited at Healing Art shows at hospitals and clinics in Southern Minnesota, HealthPartners Hudson Hospital, WI and art galleries in Minneapolis, MN. Presently prints of my work are being sold through Art Force, located in Minneapolis, please contract for items sale

LEARN MORE about Alice

Windows on Cedar: Waveforms by Lori Anne Baumgartner

In the Windows:

Waveforms

by

Lori Anne Baumgartner

The ocean has captured human imagination for our entire history. Ancient peoples saw the

ocean as the source of darkness and chaos in the world, a realm of mysteries and monsters. As

we mastered shipbuilding the ocean became a frontier for adventure, holding new continents

and treasures to be claimed. Even now the ocean is largely unexplored and new species and

geological formations are discovered regularly. In this spirit of curiosity and searching I created

these prints. The plates are created with textured acrylic mediums on cardboard. There is no

way of knowing what the final image will look like until the print is pulled. Each inking is printed

many times, continually revealing new layers of texture and color within the print. The printing

process is a journey through the textures of the plate. Multiple printings of each plate are hung

together documenting the discoveries made during the printing process. The plates are hung as

a record of the places journeyed through, almost becoming a topographical map.

See more of Lori Anne's artwork at:

www.loriannebaumgartner.weebly.com

Numinous Space

 Andy McQuigg and Deb Miller are still hard at work installing the temporary ceiling which will establish the "stage" for the installation I'm not me, she's over there.


Huge cedar beams span the gallery space, establishing place, beginning to create the location for a numinous experience .


The exhibition opens Friday. January 11, 7-9pm


I'm not me, she's over there.
by Debora Miller, withRebecca Miller

January 11-February 22, 2013

I'm not me, she's over there...it begins

I'm not me, she's over there

an installation by Debora Miller

opening Friday. January 11. 7-9pm

It's like a moving-in.  You know, when you gather friends, boxes, tape and trucks and haul  the mismatched parts of your life to new home. Deb Miller and her husband Andy have begun the move. Measuring tapes have measured and snapped shut across the space.  Plans have been drawn, tools have been assembled.  Mason jars, twin shots, paint, tape and a set of bound dolls that travel back and forth between Deb and her identical twin when they visit one another.  You can see Debora at work at work at http://artsquall.wordpress.com/

Redaer's Art 12: Jamie Weaver

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home


Jamie Weaver

West Virginia in Quilts recalls my childhood memories of growing up in rural Appalachia.  My family has long been involved with folk arts and crafts, and I was encouraged to explore these creative outlets both at home and in school.  Looking back, I realize that much emphasis was placed on West Virginia as a center for Appalachian crafts and tourism, and larger issues affecting the state, like mountaintop removal and rampant meth use, were swept under the rug.  When I was in school, we weren’t taught how to be socially, financially, and environmentally loyal to our state – we were told that to be successful adults, we’d probably have to move out of state.  So, with West Virginia in Quilts, I wanted to use a traditional Appalachian craft, quilting, to bring awareness to more serious issues affecting West Virginia. 

            I chose an accordion fold structure so that the book unfolds and spreads out like a quilt.  The title of the book works on a couple of levels:  It is a glimpse of West Virginia through beautiful quilt patterns, and it is also a state in quilts, or covered from view.  Since the truth rarely remains hidden, I let the ugliness underneath peek through the quilts on the surface; when the quilt unfolds, the whole story is revealed.  The front and back are covered with handmade paper that reminds me of quilt batting.

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home
March 16- April 26, 2012

Reader's Art 12: Esther Smith

 
Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home   Esther Smith




Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home
March 12- April 26, 2012

Reader's Art 12 : Amandine Nabarra Piomelli

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home   Amandine Nabarra Piomelli

The Caretaker

A series of 14 photographs based on a true story (see below) and presented as a centered accordion book in a fabric like box. The title of the box is hidden by the band to keep the secret of the story safe.

Some secrets become obsessions and can change the course of one’s life. This metamorphosis is at the heart of a project made of several artistic short stories. One of them, The Caretaker, is based on the life of Mrs T. On her wedding day, her aunt, who she thought was her mother broke the secret about her  parents’ identity. This shocking revelation slowly changed Mrs. T.’s destiny and sent her off to roam about the world in search of her father.

Mrs T.’s Vietnamese mother had met a Chinese man in Hong-Kong, but their love story was short lived. Returning home to care for her dying mother, she realized she was pregnant. Two years after Mrs T.’s birth, her mother died and the little girl was raised by her aunt who hid the identity of her parents until her wedding day. Before the ceremony the bride received a box containing an old photo of a young man and a golden ring  that her mother had left for her. After spending the next 20 years raising her children, Mrs T. decides to leave her family to find her father. In order to finance her quest, she will work as a caretaker.

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home

March 16- April 26

Reader's Art 12: Kelly Parsell

Reader's Art : Longing for Home  Kelly Parsell- Circulate

This accordion-fold artist book explores the nostalgia and longing for our pasts. The piece highlights six different homes and their specific qualities for which the speaker/narrator still yearns. Circulate investigates the notion of “absence” and how objects, emotions, and histories can continue living on through memory.

Reader's Art : Longing for Home

March 16- April 26, 2012

Reader's Art 12: Maggie Miller

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home   

Maggie Miller:

"The project is a visual interpretation of the book Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino.   Calvino’s book is a dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan as Marco Polo reports on the vast Tartar Empire through the lens of personal insights that arise from interactions each place.  A fourteen odd page mixed media piece, working with pop-up architecture and found prints, my work creates vignettes of Khan’s cities, participating in the conversation as a reader reflecting on Polo’s discoveries about the relationship between self and setting.  The viewer is given a chance to engage with a city fully assembled, stretching out as an accordion of compiled images and quotations.  Closed, pop-ups retreat back into blank pages, just as Calvino’s cities themselves are in essence bare canvases.  Prints draw on the discussions of the limitations of language in establishing a common vernacular of experience. "

Reader's Art 12: Longing for Home

March 12- April 26, 2012

Lots of news here!

Art Books for sale, among other things!

Big Annual Book Sale with A load of Art Books for Sale Corcoran Neighborhood, is pleased to present the 8th Annual Book Sale, October 15, 9am-4pm,at the Neighborhood Office, at the corner of Cedar Ave and 35th St, South Minneapolis. Every Fall, the Corcoran Neighborhood puts on this one day sale, with refreshments, to raise money to support the neighborhood organization and especially the expenses associated with the Lutheran Volunteer Corps year-long volunteer position. I have donated 7 boxes of art books to the sale this year! There are some real plum finds in the lots...some rare books, some odd books, contemporary art criticism, exhibition catalogs, graphic design, artist monographs, art history, and a large group of books on ceramics. So why have I donated so many books? When I lived in Michigan, the library system was weak, with inter-library loan largely unavailable. In order to continue my lifelong learning, I had to BUY the books I needed. By comparison I now live in library heaven. So, I am moving books out to make room for more! And to make room for my retirement business: Sue's Luxury Fibers. This is What Retirement Almost Looks Like Susan Hensel Gallery will soon change its footprint in the neighborhood. The month in month out exhibition schedule is nearing its end with the current show. Monday hours will continue, but the space will become my working studio. Come in on any Monday to see what I am up to. I may be up to my elbows in paint and charcoal. On Mondays you can see my work in process or you can come shop Sue's Luxury Fibers for yarn and materials for spinning, dyeing, weaving, knitting and felting. In March, 2012, the show Reader's Art will return for the 12th year! I am committed to keeping that show alive and will continue presenting in this space for the forseeable future.

Project Gutenberg Project closing event November 11, 7-9 pm The Project Gutenberg Project by Jeff Rathermel continues at Susan Hensel Gallery through November 18. This show can be seen as an overall installation, a faux library, a cabinet of curiosity all focused on the idea of the book. The gallery is always open Mondays, 10-5 or viewings can be arranged by appointment. A special event is being offered: Keep in Touch: Physicality in Contemporary Art , on Friday November 11, 7-9pm. Jeff, will be joined in conversation by Marianne Combs and Paulette Myers-Rich. Free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 pm. The Original Show at Flow Art Space I am re-launching my exhibition career with this show Flow Art Space is a new gallery in the basement of the Keg House Building in NE Minneapolis. This group show runs October 19-30, with a reception for the artists October 21, 5:30-9pm. Gallery hours: Oct 19,20,26,27- 4-7pm October 21 and 28- 5:30-9pm October 22 and 29- 1-4PM or by appointment Flow Art Space 34-13th Avenue NE, Suite B002B Minneapolis 612-564-FLOW(3569) SiP Coffeebar is in the front of the building.

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