Mixed Media

Sculpture & 3D

Contact Information

80 Big Oak Road
Lower Makefield, PA 19067
tel: 215-428-2770
e-mail:
www.susanhogan.net
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Statement

Thereʼs delight in selecting from the profusion of materials found in nature, then assembling relief surfaces for painting to ground the process in a tangible connection to the earth.

Meanwhile, working directly with earth, for two decades Iʼve been making handbuilt stoneware vessels: hollow earth forms that evoke female bodies.

And now, for the past couple years, the ancestor presences and nature beings that show up in my paintings have been taking form in new hollow torso sculptures.

Building these mythical bodies out of wet clay has been a challenge and a steep learning curve; who is actually going to make her appearance? The mystery of each evolving form compels me to keep on developing them.

Then, the extreme heat of the firing process totally transforms her personality, and reveals new levels of expression in her face and demeanor.

Education

1994
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
EdM, Art & Art Education

1977
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
MFA, Painting

1968
Hunter College, New York, NY
BA, Art

Professional Experience

Art Education
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

NJ Governor’s School of the Arts

Trenton Public Schools, Trenton, NJ

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Princeton, NJ

Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ

William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ

Harbor School for the Performing Arts, East Harlem, New York, NY

LEAP (Learning through an Expanded Art Program), New York, NY

Newark Museum Arts Workshop, Newark, NJ

Theatrical Experience
1975 – 1990
Professional work in costuming, scenery, props, and puppets as a freelance theatrical craftperson

Collections

Corporate
Johnson & Johnson

Bisys Corporation

Delta Dental of NJ

RMM Music Management

New York Presbyterian Hospital

Latin Quarter (NYC)

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Numerous private collections

Selected Exhibitions

Solo

Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ

Cooper Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

John Harms Theater, Englewood, NJ

Williams Center for the Performing Arts, Rutherford, NJ

The Interchurch Center, New York, NY

Passaic County College, Paterson, NJ

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Contemporary Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Kretschmer Gallery, New York, NY

Group

2010
Ceramics Invitational, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ

Eye of the Beholder, MD Federation of Art, Annapolis MD

GREEN Art with the Earth in Mind, AnneMarie Garden, Solomons MD

2010, 2009, 2008
Artists of Yardley Annual Members Show

2010, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004
Phillips’ Mill Annual Juried Show, New Hope, PA

2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
Sculpture New Hope, New Hope, PA

2006
Art Department Faculty Show, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ

AOY, Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

Sculpture Invitational, Millville, NJ

Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ

Seton Hall University Law School, Newark, NJ

City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China

Art Initiatives, New York, NY

Cooper Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

New Jersey Arts Annual, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ

New Jersey Arts Annual, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY

NJSCA Fellowship Exhibition, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ

Carrier Foundation, Belle Meade, NJ

Bergen Museum of Art & Science, Paramus, NJ

NJ Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ

Santa Fe: Southwestern Biennial, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NJ