susan c. dessel

susan c. dessel

  • works
    • 2022 TZEDEK BOX
    • 2022 HOPE/LESS Exhibit
    • FRANKELY SPEAKING Spring/Summer 2022
    • THE ART OF BEING DANGEROUS
    • 2020 Untitled (Portrait of EJD)
    • 2019 2020 YNY
    • 2019 Expat Repat
    • 2017 Simple Math
    • 2017 PIECES of PEACE
    • 2016 TREES OF LIFE and EVIL EYES
    • 2016 Summer
    • 2016
    • 2015
    • 2014 BRICK IN A SOFT HAT Series 2 Nos. 1-8 (Portraiture of Martha Gruening)
    • Brick In a Soft Hat (Portraiture of Martha Gruening, No.1)
    • 2013 Words From the Black Maria
    • 2013 WHAT A NEIGHBORHOOD!, nos 1- 5 of 10
    • 2013 WHAT A NEIGHBORHOOD!, nos 6-10 of 10
    • 2012 crystal clear, an installation
    • 2011
    • 2010 chashama 266
    • 2010
    • 2009
    • american samplers, series 3 (the chicken chronicles, nos. 1-14) 2013, 2009
    • 2008 Artist Residency Tondach Factory (Prague, Czech Rep.)
    • 2007
    • 2006
    • 2005
    • 2004
    • 2003
    • 2002
    • 2001
    • 2008
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Apology by City on Art
HEART AS ARENA names Dessel to 2006 TOP 10 (ITEM #4)
MTAA: Dessel heads Barry Hoggard’s 2006 TOP 10
Heart As Arena: Body Count. “When they start hiding the dead it falls to artists to…”
Tom Moody’s Review: “The photo is good but doesn’t do justice to seeing the work in person …”
ArtsJournal: Modern Art Notes. Tyler Green’s AROUND the BLOGOSPHERE; “Bush’s Iraq War: It comes home to NYC gallery…”
tinsquo (there is no status quo). MARK ROTH and JANNA OLSON’s Review “Dangling” at Dam Stuhltrager. “… the viewer encounters Susan C. Dessel’s devastating…”
ARTINFO News & Features Poli See”…an especially strong work that explicitly evoked the political climate. Susan C. Dessel’s installation …”
Co-curator James Wagner discusses OUR BACKYARD…

OUR BACKYARD: A Cautionary Tale (1)
September 8 - November 13, 2006
Sand bag tarps, EMS blankets, shellac, plaster gauze, cement.

Adult female

These details are images of five of the individuals that together comprise the full installation of twelve bodies.


[Images by Photographer Robert Puglisi]

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