Susan Zukowsky
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I have a passion for the printed image. I was raised, so to speak, on reproductions. The associative power of printed images and objects combined with the illusion of depth and tactile materiality is key to my communication. I am engaged in writing about life. But instead of typing or penning the written word, I use appropriated images from our media culture. I speak to topics as varied as war, motherhood, nature, loss and love. My work has always been intuitive and narrative – offering the viewer his/her own interpretation. While my personal “meanings” drive the work, the gift to the viewer is the preservation of emotions. The surface of my work is not “flat”, as in the traditional sense of collage. Glue is used sparingly. Layers of images are not held with glue, but with thread. Other objects such as beads, rubber balls, knitting needles, feathers, hair, etc. are all held down with thread. This approach imparts a tactile reality and the recognizable touch |
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Résumé
Born in Montgomery, Alabama
Education
University of South Florida, Tampa, B.A., 1971
Assistant to Master Printer, GRAPHICSTUDIO, University of South Florida, Tampa, 1969-71
Student Assistant in Printmaking (Lithography), University of South Florida, Tampa, 1969-71
Awards
Florida Department of State Individual Artist Fellowship, Mixed Media, HM 1996-97
Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Works on Paper, Finalist, 1994
Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Works on Paper, Finalist, 1992
Florida Department of State Individual Artist Fellowship, Mixed Media, 1991-92
Awards in the Visual Arts Fellowship, Nominee, 1981
Full Tuition Art Scholarship, University of South Florida, Tampa, 1967-71
Lectures
“10 x 10.6 Ten Images by Ten Presenters”,
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, 2004
(A lecture series sponsored by the Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of the American Institute of Architects)
“In Celebration of Women Artists: A Personal Perspective – Susan Zukowsky”,
Miami-Dade Community College, South Campus, 1986
“The Medium and Its Message: Collage and Assemblage From a Number of Viewpoints: The Personal Implications of Cutting and Pasting – Susan Zukowsky”,
New College at the University of South Florida, Sarasota, 1985 (A conference co-sponsored by New College, USF, and the Florida Endowment for the Humanities with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities)
Individual Exhibitions
2011 Intimations of Fate : Mixed Media Constructions by Susan Zukowsky, Museum of Florida Art, Deland
2010 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota
2006 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota
2003 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota
2003 Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami 1998 Miramar Gallery, Sarasota
1992 Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota 1990 The Gallery of 24, Miami
1989 Joan Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota
1987 Ormand Beach Museum, Ormand Beach 1986 Miami-Dade Community College, South Campus Art Gallery, Miami
1986 Joan Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota
1985 The Gallery of 24, Miami
1984 SECCA, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem
1984 Conduit Gallery, Dallas 1983 The Gallery of 24, Miami
1983 Joan Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota
1979 The Gallery of 24, Miami
1977 The Gallery of 24, Miami
1977 Joan Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Biennial Six, Juried by Bernice Steinbaum, Museum of Florida Art, Deland, FL
2012 The Sum of Its Parts, Juried by Amanda Cooper, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL
2011 2nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Florida Museum for Women Artists, Deland, FL
2008 NFS(NotforSale)CollectionoftheArtist,CuratedbyMarkOrmond, ArtCenterSarasota, Sarasota,FL
2005 I Spy, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Buff Puff, Cruz Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2004 53RD Annual All Florida Juried Competition & Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
2004 Florida Visual Art Fellowships 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL
2003 52ND Annual All Florida Juried Competition & Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
2003 Florida Visual Art Fellowships 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL
2003 Florida Visual Art Fellowships 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL
2003 Florida Visual Art Fellowships 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
2003 Florida Visual Art Fellowships 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Terrace Gallery, Orlando, FL
2003 Florida Visual Art Fellowships 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
2003 Florida Visual Art Fellowships 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
2003 Florida Visual Art Fellowships 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL
2002 Boxes Boxed: Assemblage, Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
2000 Domesticity Revisited: A look at the American millennial woman: Claudia DeMonte/Lesley Dill/JanetNolan/
Susan Zukowsky/Judith Paige/Kathleen Holmes, The von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
1999 Inaugural Exhibition, Helix Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 1999 Florida Invitational Exhibition, Sarasota Visual Art Center, Sarasota, FL
1998 The Best of Art in Architecture, Sarasota Visual Art Center, Sarasota, FL
1996 All Florida Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
1995 Western Heritage II, Elliot Gallery, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
1993 The Expanding Discourse, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1993 All-Florida Biennial, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
1992 Florida Fellowships:1991/92 Visual Art Recipients, Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
1991 Southern Exposure, Veridian Gallery, New York, NY
1990 New Visions, Florida Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL
1988 Surrealism Continued, SECCA, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1988 Fourteen Contemporary Perspectives, Coyote Gallery, Boston, MA
1988 Florida Women Artists, Binnewater Arts Center, Kingston, NY
1987 Continuity and Change, The Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
1987 The Florida Show, The Gallery of 24, Miami, FL
1987 Elvis, SECCA, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1987 Sarasota Artists: A Fifty-Year Survey, Longboat Key Art Center, Longboat Key, FL
1986 Visual Arts: the Southeast, Georgia State University, One Securities Centre, Atlanta, GA
1986 Works on Paper, Gallery 500, Philadelphia, PA
1986 Inner Surfaces, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
1986 Surrealism – The Mind’s Eye, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
1986 WLRN Artists’ Showcase, Anna Brenner Meyers Telecommunications Center, Miami, FL
1986 In Celebration of National Women’s History Month, The Gallery of 24, Miami, FL
1986 The Florida Show, The Gallery of 24, Miami, FL
1985 Art as Idea, SECCA, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1985 Autobiographies: Fantasy, Fact, or Fiction, Florida Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL
1984 Collage and Assemblage, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN
1984 State of Florida Show, Sarasota Visual Art Center, Sarasota, FL
1984 Collage and Assemblage, Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghampton, NY
1983 Collage and Assemblage, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1983 A Company of Women, Ridge Art Center, Winter Haven, FL
1983 Artists of Florida, Miami-Dade Community College, South Campus Art Gallery, Miami, FL
1983 Paper/Collage/Assemblage, Boca Grande Gallery, Boca Grande, FL
1982 Collage and Assemblage, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
1982 September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
1982 Collage and Assemblage, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
1982 Collage and Assemblage, Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA
1982 Small Works: Watercolors, Collages, Pastels, Joan Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, FL
1981 Collage and Assemblage, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
1980 The Emerging Female Voice, Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, FL
1979 A Face is a Face is a Face, South Dade Regional Library, Miami, FL
1978 Le Tableaux et la Table, Miami Dade Public Library, Miami, FL
1977 Contemporary Issues: Works by Women on Paper, The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Professional Women Artists of Florida, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL
1973 Showcase of the Arts, Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota, FL
Publications
“Contemporary Issues: Works on Paper by Women”, by K.D. Schnapper, THE FEMINIST ART JOURNAL, VOL. 6, NO. 2, Summer 1977, p.48
“Expo: Susan Zukowsky”, by Joan Altabe, SPLASH: ART 7 CONTEMPORARY CULTURE IN FLORIDA, NO. 4, November 1985, p.10
“Susan Zukowsky: Artist”, by Kay Kipling, CLUBHOUSE, November 1985, pp.27-28
“The Feminine as Fantastic in the Art of Susan Zukowsky”, by Chris Hassold, ART PAPERS, VOL. 11, NO. 5, September/October 1987, pp.26-29
“Susan Zukowsky: New Collages”, by Chris Hassold, ART PAPERS, VOL. 11, NO. 5, September/October 1989, pp.65-66
“Works in Progress”, by Kay Kipling, SARASOTA MAGAZINE, June 1989, p.41
“Susan Zukowsky: ‘Aquarium’”, THE BULLETIN OF THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, January 1991, Cover
“Thread of Life”, by Esther Gordon, GULFSHORE LIFE, November 1991, pp.50-52
“Picture the Possibilities”, SARASOTA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BROCHURE, 1992, pp.1,3,5-6,9,12,14-17, Cover
“Susan Zukowsky: Mixed Media Collages”, THE GETTYSBURG REVIEW, VOL. 6, NO. 3, Summer 1993, pp.433-440, 546, Cover
“Florida Visual Art Fellowships 25th Anniversary Exhibition”, FLORIDA HISTORY & the ARTS, VOL. 11, NO. 1, Winter 2003, p.18,p.21
“Susan Zukowsky, Visual Arts”, by Sue Byron, STYLE, A MAGAZINE OF THE HERALD TRIBUNE, November 2008, p.24
“Susan Zukowsky, Profiles/The Visual Arts”, SCENE MAGAZINE, October 2011, p.65
Collections
Holland & Knight, Tampa, FL
Hoyt Architects, Sarasota, FL
Mayo Clinic Collection, Rochester, NY
Miami-Dade Community College Permanent Art Collection,
Miami, FL Miami-Dade Public Library Art Collection, Miami, FL
Prudential Insurance Company of America Corporate Collection, Newark, NJ
Sarasota County Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100, Sarasota, FL
SeibertArchitects PA, Sarasota, FL The 24 Collection, Miami, FL