Dance with Me at Zurcher Gallery in New York

April 19, 2019

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Night Painting at Milton Art Bank

April 19, 2019

 

Susanna Coffey

Night Painting
at
Milton Art Bank

23 South Front Street
Milton, PA 17847
www.miltonartbank.com

April 4th – June 22nd, 2019

A retrospective of works spanning over two decades. 

Exhibition accompanied by publication of the book Night Painting” with essays by Carol Becker and Brice Brown, poems by Jane Coffey and Jane Kenyon and a prose poem by Mark Strand

 

Opening reception with the artist April 4th, 6-8pm

 

 

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Susanna Coffey lives, works, and dances in New York City. She was the F. H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Coffey’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in many public collections including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Art and Design, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery. She is the recipient of grants from The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.
EMAIL CURIOUS@MILTONARTBANK.COM FOR MORE INFORMATION
Milton Art Bank (MAB), located in a converted bank building, is a space for art. MAB’s exhibition and performance programming encompasses a broad range of genres and styles, including painting, sculpture, video, dance, music, site-specific installations, and historical surveys. Through its diverse exhibitions, MAB aspires to promote an engagement with art in its many forms. 

 

 

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50 Contemporary Women Artists: Groundbreaking Contemporary Art from 1960 to Now

November 5, 2018

https://www.schifferbooks.com/50-contemporary-women-artists-groundbreaking-contemporary-art-from-1960-to-now-6562.html

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In Her Own Image: Self Portraits by Women from 1900-2018 CURATED BY AMY SUDARSKY October 18—November 25, 2018

October 5, 2018

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John Yau Reviews “Crimes of the Gods” on Hyperallergic

June 25, 2018

Susanna Coffey Studies the Nature of Portraiture

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Artist talk Friday, June 15th: Susanna Coffey and Aliza Nisenbaum discuss “Crimes of the Gods”

June 12, 2018

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TSV THE STUDIO VISIT WITH SUSANNA COFFEY

May 23, 2018

Susanna Coffey

 

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Crimes of the Gods at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects

May 21, 2018

 

Susanna Coffey, plate from The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 1988, woodblock on Japanese paper

SUSANNA COFFEY

Crimes of the Gods

May 23rd – June 30th, 2018

 

opening reception: Wednesday, May 23rd, 6-8pm

 

steven harvey fine art projects
208 forsyth street new york ny 10002

917-861-7312 info@shfap.com www.shfap.com

 

Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects is pleased to present our third solo exhibition of work by Susanna Coffey, Crimes of the Gods. This exhibition includes works from the 1980s, along with recent paintings.

Featured in the exhibition are woodcuts from Coffey’s 1988 limited edition artist book, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, utilizing a translation by Apostolos Athanassakis. The myth is the story of Persephone’s kidnapping by Hades, the response of her mother, the goddess Demeter, and Persephone’s ultimate resolution. The book was printed in letterpress, alongside Coffey’s woodblock illustrations. The exhibition also includes painting, from the same period, that deals with the Homeric myth along with recent self-portraits, some of which verge on abstraction.

The 1988 book captures what Coffey describes as the “criminal behavior of patriarchs,” which has a strong relationship to the current #metoo movement. Her woodcuts and self-portraits together reveal the modern experiences of women and their relationship to the several thousand year old hymn. In an essay that accompanies the exhibition, Coffey writes, “Now I see that the tale told in The Homeric Hymn is more of an ongoing truth than a myth and that all of my art has been involved with its lessons.”

Accompanying the woodcuts are several recent self-portraits painted from direct observation. The artist’s representation of herself depicts more than just her portrait alone, but rather connects her to the stories and voices of women from ancient times and today. In an essay titled, Demeter and Persephone, Kia Penso writes, “Susanna Coffey’s woodcuts…look possessed by the emotional energies of this poem: the sum of all women’s anger the way the hymn is a sum of all of women’s fates, most of those fates still hidden in its shadows.”

Susanna Coffey studied at Yale University and is the F.H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. She is known for her self-portraits, and also works across the genres of still-life and landscape. She has been the subject of two other solo exhibitions at SHFAP, in 2012 and 2014. Recent solo shows include A Night Painting Project at the Anchorage Art Museum in Alaska, and Going to Ground at the Alexander Hogue Gallery of Art in Tulsa, OK. Her work is included in the collections of The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Akron Museum of Art, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Honolulu Academy of Art, and The Minneapolis Museum of Art.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with a reproduction of the original Homeric Hymn to Demeter accompanied by a new essay by Kia Penso and a text from the artist.

 

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Susanna Coffey in Dialogue about Self-Portraits for Vasari 21

August 23, 2017

 

Me, Myself, and I Part 2

 

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American Genre: Contemporary Painting – Maine College of Art

July 23, 2017

https://www.meca.edu/about/institute-of-contemporary-art/currently-on-view/

The ICA at Maine College of Art is free and open to the public. Wednesday–Sunday 11:00am–5:00pm, Thursday 11:00am–7:00pm, and First Fridays 11:00am–8:00pm.

American Genre: Contemporary Painting

Hope Gangloff, After Party, 2015, acrylic and collage on paper

On view from July 20, 2017 – September 15, 2017
Exhibition Reception: Thursday, July 20, 2017, 5:00–8:00pm

The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art is pleased to announce American Genre: Contemporary Paintingcurated by artist, writer, and curator Michelle Grabner. Grabner is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

American Genre: Contemporary Painting is an exhibition built on a triad of traditional painting genres: still life, landscape, and portraiture. Fifty-two paintings by fifty-two American artists offers a critical balance to the conditions of atemporality, affected responses, and the material turn shaping much of contemporary painting discourse. Alternatively, this exhibition employs historically recognized groupings of subject and forms. Genres incorporate and invoke structures of knowledge by performing classification. Deeply embedded in everyday life, genre is conspicuous and powerful in its ability to chart historical continuity and differences through its organizing forces.

Artists include: 

Still Life: Gina Beavers, Dana DeGiulio, Wendy Edwards, Francesca Fuchs, Hope Gangloff, Evan Gruzis, Angelina Gualdoni, Magalie Guerin, Jessica Halonen, Jonn Herschend, Tucker Nichols, Aliza Nisenbaum, Walter Robinson, Roger White, Griff Williams, Kelly S. Williams, Emi Winter, Mathew Zefeldt

Portraiture: Herman Aguirre, Lucas Ajemian, Deborah Brown, Kristin Calabrese, Brian Calvin, Susanna Coffey, Angela Dufresne, Andreas Fischer, Howard Fonda, Richard Hull, José Lerma, Keith Mayerson, Frank J. Stockton, Henry Taylor, Storm Tharp, Kehinde Wiley

Landscape: Dan Attoe, Peter Barrickman, Amy Bennett, Michael Berryhill, Patrick Chamberlain, Ann Craven, Paula Crown, Cynthia Daignault, Rackstraw Downes, Mari Eastman, Shara Hughes, Brad Killam, Eva Lundsager, Tyson Reeder, John Riepenhoff, Claire Sherman, Gail Spaien, Spencer Sweeney, Emily Sundblad

This exhibition will include an exhibition catalog that also functions as a genre reader. The exhibition will close with a one-day symposium hosted by Maine College of Art, and featuring a panel discussion moderated by Barry Schwabsky on September 15, 2017.

Due to limited seating, RSVP to the September 15th Symposium by emailing ica@meca.edu.

For more information or to request an interview, please contact Erin Hutton, Director of Exhibitions and Special Projects, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art (ICA), 207.699.5025 or ehutton@meca.edu.

Masthead Image: Kelly S. Williams, Crystal Ball Terrarium (detail), 2014, Oil on canvas, 54×32 inches, Courtesy of David Lusk & Carissa Hussong

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