october 31–november 25, 2023
Reflections
Ceres Gallery/547 West 27th Street, Suite 201/New York, NY 10001
The pandemic landed and the sculptures and prints that comprise Reflections are Grabel's responses. They are meditations on our inward journeys as well as further artistic explorations of the combination of digitally cut wood with cast paper and collagraph and woodcut prints.
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Art, Whatever It Takes — Susan Grabel Interview
Rome Art Program
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Rome Art Program has conducted a series of interviews, Art: Whatever It Takes. Artists, Critics, and Art Historians living in Italy, the U.S., and U.K., share their insights during these powerful times.
november 12–december 31, 2022
Wood & Paper
Curated by Yuko Nii
Williamsburg Art and Historical Center/135 Broadway/Brooklyn, NY 11211
Our life is inseparable from wood and paper, and because we are surrounded with plenty of these common materials, we tend to use them mindlessly and carelessly in our daily life and by overexploitation of this resource we have helped cause Climate Change. We take for granted that these resources are always available.
Most visual artists create their works by using natural products of Mother Nature. I became interested in finding out how artists utilize these products. I questioned "why so?" Having lost the close physical and verbal communications with fellow humans for a long time because of the Covid lockdown, I began to believe that people started looking for some other ways to communicate, this time through visual communication with artworks. Art consoles wounded hearts!
This show is entitled Wood and Paper, which invites artists who work in these mediums. Wood and Paper have the same substance, but how artists use the same original substance to create their works can result in a panorama of optical delight with ideas that perhaps we have never thought of before. Many wood artists use wood to chisel sculptures, or cut and glue wood pieces together to build some unique 3-D abstract forms, or bend or manipulate wood material to make it look like wrinkled paper. Many paper artists normally think of the paper medium to use for drawing, or print-making, or photography, but my main interest for this special show was to find out how paper artists utilize paper material to create something extraordinary by transforming that flatness of thin paper material into 3-D paperwork such as paper mache, pop-up book art, origami art, cast paper, hand-made paper, paper collage, etc. . . . all these methodologies should result in a fascinating show.
october 13–november 9, 2022
The Difference We‘ve Made
Curated by Cynthia Mailman, Vernita Nemec, Susan Grabel
Carter Burden Gallery/548 West 28th Street #534/New York, NY 10001
The exhibit will show “New” work done within the last 10 years by women artists who were active in the NYC art world in the 1970’s and are still making art. The 23 women included in this exhibition are working in a variety of styles, techniques and materials which enlarged and changed the scope of art significantly. They were part of the feminist art movement that opened up the art world to different types of subject matter, brought traditional forms of female expression into the mainstream and were innovators in performance art, installation art as well as public art. They made a difference to art and continue to make contributions today.
Artists: Dotty Attie, Nancy Azara, Josely Carvalho, Maureen Connor, Betsy Damon, Carol Goebel, Janet Goldner, Susan Grabel, Carol Hamoy, Janet Olivia Henry, Lucy Hodgson. Joyce Kozloff, Cynthia Mailman, Carol Massa, Dindga McCannon, Juanita McNeely, Kazuko Miyamoto, Vernita Nemec, Senga Nengudi, Susan Schwalb, Dee Shapiro, Jenny Tango, Sharon Wybrants
october 1–october 23, 2022
Staten Island Printmakers
Curated by Wendy Jackelow
Art on the Terrace/776 Richmond Terrace/Staten Island, NY 10301
Fine art printmakers from Staten Island, NY specializing in etchings, mezzotints, monotypes, screen prints, linocuts, collagraphs, lithographs, solar prints, and more. All of the artists here have a love of printmaking—the process, the unexpected outcomes, the physicality of the work, and the various ways prints can be made. It is an art form of exploration and discovery.
Artists: Pat DeCicco, Phyllis Featherstone, Susan Grabel, Wendy Jackelow, Lenny Librizzi, Laura Marchi, Diane Matyas, Ann Marie McDonnell, Lindsey Milazzo, Bill Murphy, Optic Void, Sage Reynolds, Colman Rutkin, Kerri Sheheen, Jenny Vitek
june 9, 2022–march 26, 2023
Yes, And
The Staten Island Museum/Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden/1000 Richmond Terrace/Staten Island, NY 10301
Yes, And explores what it means to be connected to Staten Island. The theme “yes, and” suggests the abundance of experience on and perception of Staten Island. This complicated and prodigious borough contains a multitude of narratives that cumulatively offer an earnest impression of life in the United States.
Yes, And presents recent work in video, performance, painting, photography, installation, drawing, and more. Together, thirty-six artists express themes of connectivity, resilience, and vitality, reflecting this time in history when a global pandemic continues to teach us the fundamental importance of relationships and the meaning of place. This hyperlocal exhibition references life on an island, legacies of self-determination, land development over time, and the enduring power of nature.
Featured artists: Irma Bohorquez-Geisler, Mary Bullock, Robert Bunkin, Linda Butti, Arlette Cepeda, Edward Coppola, Lisa Dahl, Day de Dada, Natasha Do, Alanna Dunn, Kevyn Fairchild, Phyllis Featherstone, Volker Goetze, Susan Grabel, Terry Hardy, Griselda Healy, Kay Healy, Katarina Jerinic, Nathan Kensinger, Sizhu Li, LuLu LoLo, Jahtiek Long, Paul Moakley, Bill Murphy, Zahra Pars, Samuel Partal, Sage Reynolds, James Richards, John Sanderson, Mike Shane, Stevie Ray Soloway, Rob Stephenson, Alana Urcia, Amanda Wu & Zach Rothman-Hicks, Yu Zhang
may 20–june 30, 2022
Impact 2022: Art That Bears Witness
Bethany Arts Community/4 Somerstown Road/Ossining, NY 10562
Impact 2022: Art That Bears Witness presents the work of a diverse group of artists working in a wide variety of media that use art to denounce and challenge racism and discrimination by gender, class and immigration status, and to raise awareness of reproductive rights, public health and access, and environmental issues.
Through the ages, artists have used their creativity to call to action, protest, support, attest, and provoke lasting and meaningful change. Ranging from abstraction to more figurative work, from personal to more universal, from literal to more poetic, the artwork in this exhibition invite and engage us to be aware of inequities and systemic institutionalized practices that are racist and oppressive, and that can be abolished.
Participating artists in this exhibition include Nia Adams, Lizzy Alejandro, Laura Alvarez, Shahaan Azeem, Aileen Bassis, Edward Bear Miller, Guilherme Bergamini, Stacy Bogdonoff, Michele Brody, Suzanne Broughel, Aleathia Brown, Maryanne Buschini, Kevin Byrd, Nicky Enright, Patricia Espinosa, Jennifer Figueroa, Angela Fremont, Alyssa Herrera, Susan Hoetzel, Nelson Santiango, Susan Grabel, Tenjin Ikeda, Monique Islam, Kyung Jeon, Carla Rae Johnson, David Kalal, Ann LaFond, Elain Luther, Katrina Majkut, Cecilia Mandrile & Lynn Bechtold, Tali Margolin, Mary McFerran, Fannie Miller Beard, Marilyn Miller, Edgardo Miranda Rodriguez, Tomo Mori, Taeesha Muhammed, Linda Negrin, Kristi Pfister, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Arle Skalar-Weinstein, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, Madeline Tomlison, Keil Troisi, Karen Viola, Bashira Webb,Tammy Wofsey, Marcia G. Yerman
august 21–december 31, 2021
Don’t Shut Up 2021
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art/Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden/1000 Richmond Terrace/Staten Island, NY 10301
Through interruptions, censure, violence and threatening behavior — both in person and online — women are silenced every day. Don’t Shut Up 2021 presents the work of 46 women artists from across the US and Canada who are working to challenge and disrupt the status quo through their ongoing artistic practice. The mission of this exhibition is to provide a platform for those voices, to create awareness and to ensure that women’s voices are heard and valued.
#MeToo #NeverthelessShePersisted #DontShutUp#TimesUp
Curated by Susan Grabel and Stefany Benson.
Participating artists: Audrey Frank Anastasi, Nancy Azara, Kyra Belan, Marcia Bernstein, Andrea Borsuk, Jo-Ann Brody, Pauline Chernichaw, Regina Corritore, Loren Dann, Anne Drager, Susan Duby, Sharyn Finnegan, Betsy Garand, Laura Gelsomini, Joan Giordano, Carol Goebel, Janet Goldner, Susan Grabel, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Zhen Guo, Melanie Hickerson, robin holder, Leigh Jerome, Carla Rae Johnson, Susan Kaplow, Tania Kravath, Barbara Lubliner, Cynthia Mailman, Virginia Maksymowicz, Ann Marie McDonnell, Marjorie Morrow, Vernita N’Cognita, Ruth Bauer Neustadter, Susan Newmark, Kristi Pfister, Helen Redman, Louise Reiner, Pam Shields, Clarissa Sligh, Linda Stein, Heather Topp, Audrey Ushenko, Doris Vila, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Nancy Quin & Deborah Woodbridge
february 3–february 27, 2021
Homeless in the Land of Plenty—Redux
Ceres Gallery/547 West 27th Street, Suite 201/New York, NY 10001
First shown in 1989 at Prince Street Gallery, this poignant work is, unfortunately, also painfully relevant today. Using clay and wood in narrative sculptural environments, Grabel captures the desolation, alienation and humanity of homeless people. She tells their stories of living on the edge of society, surviving as best they can on the streets. Through her work, she hopes to give them voice and agency.
january 9–february 8, 2020
Art from the Boros VII
Denise Bibro Fine Art/529 W 20th Street/New York, NY 10011
From numerous submissions and studio visits, diverse artists were selected to participate in this group show highlighting talent from New York City’s five boroughs Art From the Boros VII exemplifies the eclectic artistic community of New York City, showing a variety of genres and mediums. The exhibition seeks to find the pulse of talent in the city that is often overlooked and underexposed.
january 2–25, 2020
50th Anniversary Exhibition
Prince Street Gallery/530 West 25th Street/New York, NY 10001
This retrospective show will be a coming together of 87 current and former artists who have exhibited at the gallery since its beginning in Soho in 1970. Accompanying the exhibit is a comprehensive catalog designed by gallery artist, Julie Bowers Murphy, featuring 70 artists works and statements during the span of the gallery’s life. An introduction by gallery artist, Flavia Bacarella, reveals the growth of the gallery; a whimsical essay by Bill Scott, former gallery artist, illuminates the importance of mutual support of artists for each other and the artist-run gallery’s beneficial role in the contemporary art world.
september 12, 2019–june 30, 2020
Relative Relations
Dr. Bernard Heller Museum at HUC-JIR/New York/One West Fourth Street/New York, NY 10012-1186
Seventy contemporary artists explore human associations shaped by genetics, proximity, interests, and shared destiny. As Curator Laura Kruger states, “This exhibition highlights the connections that provide for the amazing melding of the human race, an ever-widening network of interests, talents, commitment, and broadening diversity.” According to Director Jean Bloch Rosensaft, “Relative Relations represents the Museum’s mission to explore Jewish experience, values, and history, and their universality. The ethnic and religious diversity of the seventy artists in this exhibition find common ground in their expression of the essence of human relationships.” A range of themes provide the point of departure and inspiration for the artists’ work. These include the Hebrew Bible and its many teachings, the broad variety of family relationships and friendships, contemporary social issues, and loss as an inevitable companion to love and connection. Rabbi David Adelson, Dean of HUC/JIR, considers “the unity amid diversity represented in Relative Relations as exactly the message we need to hear in this moment in our nation’s and the world’s history.”
may 11–june 8, 2019
Parent Portraits
Westbeth Gallery/57 Bethune Street/New York, NY 10014
The exhibition Parent Portraits focuses on artists’ representations of their parents. The exhibition will present works by 47 international artists working in diverse media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, embroidery and intaglio printmaking. Curated by Robert Bunkin and Jenny Tango.
april 30–may 25, 2019
Forward Together
Ceres Gallery/547 West 27th Street, Suite 201/New York, NY 10001
Forward Together, an exhibition of Susan Grabel's digitally fabricated work in wood and steel, expresses her vision that the only way for civilization to survive is for people to embrace their shared humanity and move forward together. Her work is a metaphor for this path to survival.
march 15–april 13, 2019
Birthday Suit
Site:Brooklyn/165 7th Street/Brooklyn, NY 11215
Since at least the 18th century, the expression “birthday suit” has been used to refer to nudity, and it rarely describes a private, quiet sort of nudity. Rather, as the phrase and its frequent uses intimate, to appear in one’s birthday suit requires that one be seen—and the more spectators, the better. There’s something distinctly theatrical about this type of undress. It is neither the contemplative nudity of the classically posed model in a life drawing class, nor a modest or timid type of nudity; it is exaggerated, embellished, celebratory, strange, attention-grabbing, and potentially alarming. The artists whose works are featured in “Birthday Suit” are using nudity and the human body to underline and sometimes upend our expectations of how a body should appear or behave. Sometimes this playing with conventions is more formal, with exaggerated or distorted proportions, and surprising materials or colors serving to convey a sense of absence, discomfort, or delight. In other works, figures in their birthday suits confront the viewer in knowing poses and performances. In all of these works, the nude body has an assertive power: rather than standing in for some idealized and airbrushed perfect specimen, these birthday suited figures are reveling in the particularities of their bodies, their unique forms, folds, quirks, shades, and scars. These nudes are not passive; they’re bold, brash, and sometimes bawdy bodies that demand to be seen. Juried by Benjamin Sutton, art critic, journalist, curator.
2018
Gateway to Maker Park
Maker Park/Thompson Street — across the street from Staten Island MakerSpace, 450B Thompson Street/Staten Island, NY 10304
Gateway to Maker Park was created to mark the entrance to MakerPark, an ever-evolving outdoor sculpture park and community space expanding the facilities and programming of SI MakerSpace. The arch provides an inviting entrance to the park giving it a sense of identity and setting it apart from the surrounding area.
july 21–september 23, 2018
Art of the 5: Revisiting Staten Island
Snug Harbor Commons Galleries at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art/1000 Richmond Terrace/Staten Island, NY 10301
Art of the 5: Revisiting Staten Island presents over 50 works of art by 10 local artists who represent a mix of nationalities, genders, and varying degrees of fame and recognition.
Guest curator Debra Vanderburg Spencer states, “This exhibition reveals the very personal visual language of the participating artists whose working practices span a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media art.”
september 2017–june 2018
Home(less)
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion Museum/One West Fourth Street/New York, NY 10012-1186
Seventy international artists explore the meaning of home and the loss of home reflecting personal experience, historical and contemporary events, cultural diversity and the universal condition. Curated by Laura Kruger.
september 12–october 24, 2017
Art of the 5: Staten Island
Galleries at The Interchurch Center/475 Rverside Drive/New York, NY 10115
The final in a series of five annual exhibitions at The Galleries at The Interchurch Center highlighting a select number of artists from each of the five boroughs. Participating artists: Alfredo Arcia, Irma Bohorquez-Geisler, Farrell Brickhouse, Robert Bunkin, Susan Grabel, Lorenzo Hail, Helen Levin, David Jacobsen Loncle, Craig Manister, Bill Murphy, Stephanie Pierce. Curated by Debra Vanderburg Spencer.
september 22–october 22, 2017
3rd Annual Hand Pulled Prints: The Current Practice in Printmaking
Site:Brooklyn/165 7th Street/Brooklyn, NY 11215
This exhibition reflects the ambitious, innovative and contemporary in printmaking today, highlighting traditional printmaking processes of serigraphy, letterpress, collagraphy, etching, woodcut, lithography, linocut, drypoint, mezzotint, monoprint and solar plates and any combination. Juried by Marina Ancona.
april 6–june 11, 2017
Confluence: A Way Forward
ArtSpace@Staten Island Arts/23 Navy Pier Court/Staten Island, NY 10304
“Through many times and cultures from Native American prophesies and African proverbs to recent statements by Pope Francis, a common thread emerges that resonates with me.”
Confluence
coming together
a path to a better world.
Susan Grabel’s Confluence is the inaugural exhibit in the Staten Island Arts new location in Stapleton. It includes her collagraph collages and new digital fabrications and aims to create a dialogue around collaboration and creative problem solving at the neighborhood level. Visitors are asked to contribute “a prophecy, proverb, person or prose that inspire you to move forward” via a message wall in the gallery.
january 3–28, 2017
Women Under Siege: It’s Happening Right Here
Curated by Susan Grabel
Ceres Gallery/547 West 27th Street, Suite 201/New York, NY 10001
Women Under Siege addresses the sexism and misogyny contained in laws across the country being used against women. Women are under siege from misguided legislatures and law enforcement agencies in many parts of the country. Under the guise of protecting the fetus, women are being punished for the outcome of their pregnancies while the potential life of a fetus is deemed more important than the life and well-being of the mother.
Women are also under siege by an antiquated criminal justice system that does not take into account the realities of domestic abuse and its impact over the course of time. Child abuse laws are being manipulated so that abused women are being punished because they couldn’t protect their children and often given more jail time than their abusers.
Susan Grabel chose the stories of 25 women whose circumstances illustrate these issues. She invited artists to create an artwork in response to them. Participating artists: Pauline Chernichaw, Loren Dann, Anne Drager, Everet, Phyllis Featherstone, Susan Grabel, Melanie Hickerson, Elizabeth Featherstone Hoff, Judith Hugentobler, Mary Anne Kinsella, Marilyn Kiss, Helen Klebesadel, Stephanie Kosinski, Marjorie Kramer, Tania Kravath, Barbara Lubliner Lynne Mayocole, Ann Marie McDonnell, Christine Mottau, Denise Mumm, Perri Neri, Ruth Bauer Neustadter, Kristi Pfister, Rhoda Pierce, Elizabeth Downer Riker.
september 30–october 15, 2016
Mid-America Print Council member's juried exhibition at MAPC 2016 conference Print Matters/Printing Matters
Juried by Brian Jones
Carnegie Center for Art and History/201 E. Spring St./New Albany, IN
What does it mean to be a printmaker in an increasingly screen-based world? For centuries, prints on paper have been the primary and most accessible mode of sharing current events, ideologies, advertisements, and images. Through their work as artists, educators, publishers, and entrepreneurs, contemporary print artists articulate what prints are, and why they matter.
Whether they engage centuries-old techniques or emerging technologies, printmakers remind us that we still live in a world surrounded by print media, and that we must be conscious of the ways images convey meaning and message. The handmade, multiple nature of prints remind us of the labor of creating art.
march 1–26, 2016
Confluence: The Way Forward
Ceres Gallery/547 West 27th Street, Suite 201/New York, NY 10001
Confluence: The Way Forward, arises out of Grabel’s deep concern for the survival of our species and planet in this current vitriolic, hyper-partisan political climate. Confluence reflects her hope and vision that only by coming together, embracing differences, can we move forward. She was inspired by the words of Brooke Medicine Eagle, Daughter of the Rainbow, Crow and Lakota when she says “We have the opportunity to build a Rainbow Bridge into the Golden Age. But to do this, we must do it together with all the colors of the Rainbow, with all the peoples, all the beings of the world. . . . ”
january 5–30, 2016
Women Gazing Inward
Ceres Gallery/547 West 27th Street, Suite 201/New York, NY 10001
All women have stories to tell. Female perspectives are often attuned to social and cultural influences. The work in this exhibition asks the questions, “to what extent is our perception informed by gender?” and “can the concept of ‘inwardness’ relate to our ancestry as women?”
october 2–november 1, 2015
The Venus Cycle
Gallery 66/66 Main Street/Cold Spring, NY 10516
Grabel’s cast paper sculptures, collagraph prints and collages explore the reality of the older woman’s body in this selection of work from The Venus Cycle series. Through repetition, humor and classical references, she challenges the conventional biases about the aging female body and validates women’s experiences of themselves.
