| Susan Griswold is a sculptor working in architectural
materials such as steel, wood, concrete and glass. She takes inspiration from
strange or obsolete architectural elements, and uses them to explore ideas about
access. Susan often uses salvaged materials which give way gently or rudely to
narrative. Images of doorways, windows, shaftways and other unnamed apertures
are common in the work - they are open, closed, barred or boarded suggesting passage
or containment. The pieces are upward architectural structures that allude to
climb-ability. Often the structures incorporated a vessel form which can be completely
enclosed, limiting all access; or open both top and bottom, revealing the sky
up through or the ground from above. She often uses more than one vertical element,
connecting them with clear or precarious passages. Selected Group Shows:
* 2002 Sarasota Biennial, Sarasota, FL
* 2001
o Pratt Institute Sculpture
Park, Brooklyn, NYC
o Illinois River Park, Peoria, IL
o Connecticut Annual
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, West Haven, CT
o Pierwalk, Chicago, IL
* 2000
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NYC
* 1999
o Harborfront Park,
Middletown, CT
o Sculpture Space Outdoor Gallery, Utica, NY
o John Elder
Gallery, NYC
o Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
o Pier Exhibit, Red
Hook, NYC
o Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA
* 1998
o Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
o Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit, Stowe,
VT
* 1996 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
* 1995
o Ogunquit Museum
of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
o Paris - New York - Kent Gallery, Kent, CT
o 1994 Rodrigo Avila Gallery, Chicago, IL
o 1993 O'Farrell Gallery, Brunswick,
ME
* 1992
o Jane Hartsook Gallery, NYC
o Lorraine Kessler Gallery,
Poughkeepsie, NY
o Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ
o Museum Without
Walls International, Bemus Point, NY
* 1991 Baxter Gallery, Portland, ME
* 1989 Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IL
* 1986 Seigfreid Gallery,
Athens, OH One Person Exhibits: * 1998 O"Farrell Gallery, Brunswick,
ME
* 1997 Area Gallery, Portland, ME
* 1995 O'Farrell Gallery, Brunswick,
ME
* 1994 Ellsworth College, Iowa Falls, IA
* 1993 June Fitzpatrick Gallery,
Portland, ME
* 1992 Elements Gallery, Brunswick, ME
* 1991
o 3-Views
Art Center, outdoor installation, Portland, ME
o Open Stable Studios, outdoor
installation, Portland, ME
o Thomas Point Beach, outdoor installation, Brunswick,
ME
* 1990 St. Louis Design Center, St. Louis, MO Residencies:
* 2000-1 Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NYC
* 1999 Franconia Sculpture
Park, Schafer, MN
* 1998
o Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
o Sculpture
Space, Utica, NY
* 1993 Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
* 1990-2 Watershed
Center for the Arts, Newcastle, ME Honors: * 2001
o New York
Foundation for the Arts SOS Grant, NYC
o Honorarium, City of Peoria, IL
o Honorarium, Pratt Institute, NYC
* 2000 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates
Sculpture Park, NYC
* 1998
o Vermont Studio Center Grant, Johnson, VT
o Guest Artist, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
* 1993
o Pollock Krasner Foundation
Grant, NYC
o Visiting Artist, Watershed Center for the Arts Newcastle, ME
* 1992 Purchase Award, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ Publications:
* 2001
o Exhibit catalog, Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC
o Exhibit catalog.
Pierwalk, 3-D Chicago, Chicago, IL
o Review, Sculpture Magazine, April issue
o Exhibit catalog, Chesterwood Museum, Stockbridge, MA
* 1997 Review, Maine
Sunday Telegram, by Ken Greenleaf, 11/9/97, p.6E
* 1995
o Exhibit catalog,
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
o Review, The Maine Times, by
Haines Sprunt Tate, 5/26/95, p.17
o Review, Maine Sunday Telegram, by Phil
Isaacson, 5/28/95, p.6E
* 1994 Exhibit catalog, Foothills Art Center, Golden,
CO
* 1992
o Review, Maine Sunday Telegram, by Phil Isaacson, 5/31/92,
p.6E
o Exhibit catalog, Trenton State College
* 1991 Review, Maine Sunday
Telegram, by Ken Greenleaf, 12/29/91, p.8E Education: * 1990 MFA,
Southern Illinois University
* 1987 BFA, Ohio University
* 1984 Uppsala
University, Uppsala, Sweden
* 1982 University of Alaska
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