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

OUR BACKYARD: A Cautionary Tale. LBIF (NJ)
May 3-19, 2008
Sod. Sand bag tarps, EMS blankets, shellac, plaster gauze, cement.
Installation 14' x 14'

no sun, no water. the grass grows. Detail OUR BACKYARD: A Cautionary Tale. © Susan C. Dessel 2008

OUR BACKYARD… was originally created as a site-specific installation for the Dam Stuhltrager Gallery Sculpture Garden. (Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY)
Dessel was invited to show this piece in the Long Beach Island Foundation Gallery 2007/2008 Residency Exhibit, the theme of which was art created after 9/11.


The LBIF contacted the artist before the May 3rd Opening Reception and offered the artist a choice: agree to have the work walled-off for the duration of the exhibit or remove it before the show opened.


An ongoing dialogue about the censorship of the work can be found on the LINKS page in this web site in the “art blog & media responses to censorship of Dessel’s work” section.


Your comments are welcomed by the artist. E-mail can be sent to the artist on the web site’s ABOUT page.

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