Susan Grabel

loss and grief

Sculpture

After the death of her husband of 54 years in 2024, Grabel's cast paper and molded cardboard portraits from Reflections, morphed into meditations on loss and grief. Faces hide, fragment, protrude, or recede—embodying the disorientation, instability, and vertigo of mourning.

Sanctuary Portrait #4

Sanctuary Portrait #4 [CP-P004]

2025,

cast paper, molded cardboard,

h10.25 w9.25 d7 inches

Sanctuary Portrait #6

Sanctuary Portrait #6 [CP-P006]

2024,

cast paper, molded cardboard,

h19.5 w12.25 d4.25 inches

Sanctuary Portrait #7

Sanctuary Portrait #7 [CP-P007]

2024,

cast paper, molded cardboard,

h15.5 w12 d4.25 inches

Sanctuary Portrait #12

Sanctuary Portrait #12 [CP-P0012]

2024,

cast paper, molded cardboard,

h14.25 w10.25 d4 inches

Sanctuary Portrait #13

Sanctuary Portrait #13 [CP-P0013]

2024,

cast paper, molded cardboard,

h12 w12 d6 inches

Sanctuary Portrait #14

Sanctuary Portrait #14 [CP-P0014]

2024,

cast paper, molded cardboard,

h9 w7.25 d4 inches

Sanctuary Portrait #15

Sanctuary Portrait #15 [CP-P0015]

2024,

cast paper, molded cardboard,

h9 w7 d4.5 inches

Sanctuary Portrait #23

Sanctuary Portrait #23 [CP-P0023]

2025,

cast paper, molded cardboard,

h17 w12.5 d4 inches

Sanctuary Portrait #24

Sanctuary Portrait #24 [CP-P0024]

2025,

cast paper, molded cardboard,

h17 w13 d6.5 inches

Sanctuary Portrait #25

Sanctuary Portrait #25 [CP-P0025]

2025,

cast paper, molded cardboard,

h19 w13 d5 inches