november 9–november 30, 2013
Women Look at Women
curated by Robert Bunkin
Staten Island LGBT Community Center / 25 Victory Blvd / Staten Island, NY
Ingrid Capozzoli-Flinn, Florine Demosthene, Elise Dodeles, Susan Grabel, Jenny Tango
Women Look at Women explores work by five women artists who deal primarily with the female body (often nude) as a vehicle to reveal women’s lives and physical experiences. Unlike the Romantic notion of the female nude as the subject of the (typically) male gaze, these images come from the experience of having these bodies, so in a sense the works are autobiographical. They respond to the feminist notion the “The personal is political.”
october 5–november 3, 2013
The Venus Cycle
MSB Gallery / NYU Langone Medical Center / 550 1st Avenue at 31st Street / New York, NY 10016
Solo show of Susan Grabel’s cast paper sculptures, collagraph prints and collages that serve to return beauty and approbation to the natural cycle of aging and validate women’s true experiences of themselves.
april 30–may 25, 2013
Venus Comes of Age: Cast Paper Sculptures and Prints
Ceres Gallery / 547 West 27th Street Suite 201 / New York, NY 10001
Solo show of Susan Grabel’s cast paper sculptures, collagraph prints and collages challenging the conventional biases about the aging female body and validating women’s experiences of themselves.
january 8–february 2, 2013
Meet My Uterus:
Women Artists Respond to the #WarOnWomen
Ceres Gallery / 547 West 27th Street Suite 201 / New York, NY 10001
Group show of 23 artists in painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and mixed-media, in all manner serious, humorous, political, or not, realist to abstract and everything in between. All this is in response to the #WarOnWomen currently being waged by our federal, state and local governments. Who would have ever envisioned the need to fight for, of all things, contraception in 2013?
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Constructions of Conscience:
The Social Art of Susan Grabel
40 page full color exhibition catalog
upcoming events
january 29–may 10, 2014
Faces of Alienation
Georgia College / 221 North Clarke Street / Milledgeville, GA 31061
Solo show of Susan Grabel’s clay portrait reliefs of people boxed in by grates and screens showing how we are imprisoned from the inside by our own defenses and biases and from the outside by social stereotypes, how our defenses become our prisons, how our communities are not communal.