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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RELATED PRESS

Press Release TheArtConspiracy

The SandPaper. Disturbing Art Hidden Behind the Curtain at New LBIF Exhibit pg 21 (1 of 2)

The SandPaper, CONTINUED, Disturbing Art Hidden Behind the Curtain at New LBIF Exhibit , page 28 (2 of 2)

edward winkleman “I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts (or An Exhibition space’s Responsibilities with Regards to Potentially Offensive Materials”

Heart As Arena by Brent Burket. “Hiding the Bodies in our Backyard”

james wagner “not my voice”

james wagner Susan Dessel’s Our Backyard censored by gallery

american samplers, series 2.
2008
white sculpture clay
various, see below

american samplers series 2, no.1.

This is Dessel’s second american samplers series. american samplers, series 1 (2003) were cement. The material used for series 2 was white sculpture clay.


These pieces are wall-hung. Dimensions & attributions below:


no.1.
Dimensions: 14.125“H 11.25“W .125“D
Taken from “Fear of Freedom” [originally published as Paura della libertà, 1946], by Carlo Levi — artist, writer, physician.


no.2.
Dimensions: 12.125“H 9.5“W .1875“D
Sub head NY TIMES front page. June 28, 2008, Vol.CLVII, No. 54365.


no.3.
Dimensions: 12.125“H 17“W .25“D
Abraham Joshua Heschel — philosopher & activist rabbi, 1965.

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