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Susan York

Susan York

Nur wenn man die Weite der Hochebene in Neumexiko mit ihrer kargen Landschaft im gleißenden Sonnenlicht selbst erfahren hat, wird man die ebenso kargen aber dennoch silbrig schwarz schimmernden Kuben von Susan York annähernd verstehen. Die Künstlerin presst und reibt puren Graphit-Staub in Formen bis kompakte Kuben unterschiedlichster Ausmaße entstehen. Schwebend an der Wand verraten sie nichts von ihrem massiven gewichtigen Inhalt, schimmern nur weltenfern, das Licht einfangend und zum staunenden Betrachten einladend.

„Die ruhige, konstante Welt der Wiederholung prägt mein Werk.
Ich hoffe, dass der Betrachter diese Ruhe spüren kann und sich fallen lässt in diese Leere.“

 
Susan York – geboren 1951 in Newport, Rhode Island
lebt und arbeitet in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA




Susan York

Only those who have experienced the expanse of New Mexico’s plateau and its barren landscape in the blazing sunlight can begin to understand the similarly barren, yet silvery black, shimmering cubes created by Susan York. The artist compresses and rubs pure graphite dust into forms until compact cubes of various sizes are created. Hovering on the wall they betray nothing of their massive, heavy contents. They just shimmer – far removed from this world – catching the light and the viewer’s astonished eye.

“The quiet, constant world of repetition forms my work.
My hope is that the viewer can taste this calm and sink into its emptiness.”

Susan York

Susan York born in 1951 in Newport, Rhode Island
Lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico; USA

 

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Ausbildung/ Education

MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
 

Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)/solo shows (a selection)

Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum, s’Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Primal Space and Form, van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Center of Gravity, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Angle of Repose, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Graphite, exhibitions 2d, Marfa, TX
exhibitions 2d, Marfa, TX
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM<
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

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Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)/group shows (a selection)

Southwest: Midwest Exchange, Lill St. Gallery, Chicago, IL;
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
American National, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
Color/ No Color: S.L. York and Holly Roberts, The Artists Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
            Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
New Mexico ’87, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico,
On the Wall / Off the Wall, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Color/Form/Texture, Freehand Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sensual Surfaces, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
CCA Invitational, Centerfor Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Surface and Substance, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
III Svjetski Trienale Male Keramike, Zagreb, Croatia
Biennale Internazionale di Ceramica Contemporanea, Galleria d’Arte, Grottaglie, Italy
Golden Mean Constructions, Janus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Center of Gravity(thesis exhibition), Cranbrook Academy of Art
Intersections and Interstices: Installations & Collaborations
with theCranbrook Academy of Art, Pontiac, MI
Silicate, Baltimore Works, Baltimore, MD
Al2O3 SiO3, The Governor’s Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Ceramic Annual 2001, Scripps College, Claremont CA
Rendezvous, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NB
Organizing the World: Sculptural Interventions, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
Steel Girrrls, Houston Texas, Jonson Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Ceramic National 2000, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
53rd Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica d’Arte Contemporanea;
Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy
Spazio Consolo, Salon de Mobil, Milan, Italy, [Dutch Souvenir Project]
Galerie Binnen, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, [Dutch Souvenir Project]
Museum voor Hedenaagse Kunst, Tilburg, Netherlands, [Dutch Souvenir Project]
Implicit Plasticity, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Zen of Materiality, Charlotte Jackson Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands [Dutch Souvenir Project]
exhibitions 2d, Marfa, Texas
Minimal /ist, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WN
Trace Elements, Margarete Roeder Gallery, NY, NY
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Gravitas, Dorsky Projects, Long Island City, NY
Renate Bender Gallery, Munich, Germany

 

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Preise und Auszeichnungen (Auswahl) /honors and awards (a selection)

Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship
Finalist, Fulbright Fellowship

 

Sammlungen (Auswahl)/Collections (a selection)
       
Lannan Foundation, Marfa, TX and Santa Fe, NM
The Panza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
The Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Stedejlijk Museum - s’Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Museum of Fine Arts of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM

 

Bibliographie (Auswahl)/bibliography (a selection)

Art in America, Susan York: The Lannan Foundation by Sarah S. King, December, 2008, NY, NY
artforum.com, “Critics Picks: Susan York” by Blake Gopnik,  July/August, 2008
Sculpture Magazine, “Eliminating Subject and Object” by Jan Riley, July, 2008
Art in America, “Santa Fe Summer Preview” by Sarah S. King, June/July, 2008
New York Times Magazine, “Flying Geese” by Susan York, Lives Column, Dec. 4, 2005, NY, NY
Art +Antiques, “America’s Artland: Santa Fe” by Ellen Berkovitch, 2007
Sculpture Magazine, “Obsession” by Kathleen Whitney, April, 2006,
Art in America, “Susan York, Klaudia Marr Gallery” by Sarah King, February, 2004, NY, NY
The Ceramic Process by Anton Rejoinders, Amsterdam, Netherlands, A & C Black, London, England
Kerameiki Techni, Sept. 2002, Piraeus, Greece CM, Susan York by Richard Garriott-Stejskal, April 2002, Ohio
Ceramics: Art and Perception, No. 47, Sydney, Australia
THE Magazine, The Universe of Susan York, June, 1999, Santa Fe, NM
100 Artists of the Southwest, by Douglas Bullis, 2006, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. PA.
Scripps College 58th Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA, 2002

 

 

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCIES [selected]

Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum (European Ceramic Work Center), s’Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
United World College, Montezuma, NM

 

 

Lehraufträge/Lectures and Teaching

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Hunter College, NY, NY
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL, panel discussion
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
New York University, NY, Guest Lecturer
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

 

 
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