SUSAN ENGLISH
302 Main Street
Nelsonville, NY 10516
susanenglish4@gmail.com
www.susanenglish.us
BIO
Susan English's abstract paintings are concerned with color, light, and surface, and explore the properties and possibilities of materials. She has developed her own unique system of pouring paint onto panels to create luminous and evocative surfaces. The New York Times has described her work as “sublime” and “buoyant.”
English’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in NYC, Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent CT, Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, CA, Ellio Fine Art in Houston, TX and Matteawan Gallery, Theo Ganz Studio, and Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Design, Flow, Interpret, Repeat: Contemporary Abstractions, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua, NY; Revivify, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY; Solace, 524 W. 26th Street, New York, NY; Undercurrents, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY; The Big Small Show, The Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ; Abstraction: New Modernism, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY; Currents: Contemporary Abstract Art in the Hudson Valley, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY; and Far and Wide, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY. English was awarded an artist residency at Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY (2018); a fellowship at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY (2016); She worked as a Teaching Artist at DIA:Beacon, and was a founding member of Collaborative Concepts in Beacon, NY. In 2008 she co-curated (with Jaanika Peerna) Drawing Revealed at the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY. The exhibition included the production of a documentary on artists’ drawing processes. English’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Widewalls Magazine, Whitehot Magazine, Chronogram, Abstract Art Online, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Highlands Current. She received an MFA from Hunter College in New York City and a BA from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. She lives and works in Cold Spring, NY.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Arcadia, Ellio Fine Art, Houston, TX 2023
Light to Light, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, NYC 2022
Weather, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT 2022
Night, So Daylight, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 2020
Susan English Works on Yupo, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY 2020
Duende, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY, 2019
Periphery, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, Chelsea New York, 2019
Intervals, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, Chelsea, New York, 2017
Pourous Light, Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, New York, 2016
Susan English, Littlejohn Contemporary, Chelsea, NYC 2015
Vertical Landscapes, Theo Ganz Gallery, Beacon, NY 2014
Susan English:Vistas, Skylight Gallery, Chelsea, NYC 2012
Susan English: New Work, Concrete Gallery, Cold Spring, NY 2011
Plastic Waves, Gillette Gallery, Garrison, NY 2009
Vanbrunt Gallery, Beacon, New York 2009
Vanbrunt Gallery, Beacon, New York 2008
Vanbrunt Gallery, Beacon, New York 2006
Lo River Arts Gallery, Beacon, New York 2005
The Painting Center: Project Room, New York, New York 2003
Arcade, Collaborative Concepts Gallery, Beacon, New York 2002
A.D.D Gallery, Hudson, New York 2001
Lorraine Koessler Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York 2001
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
Birds of a Feather KUBE, Beacon, NY 2022
A Time for Beauty and Grace, Art Spaces at Krasdale, Whiteplains, NY 2022
Inaugural Exhibition, Ellio Fine Art, Houston TX
The Summer Show, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, Chelsea, New York 2021
Winter Showcase, Kenise Barnes Fine Art 2021
NYSS: Mercedes Matter Award Winners Exhibition, JVP Galleries, Soho, NY 2021
Cool and Collected 2020, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY, 2020
2020 Winter, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT 2020
20/20 Vision, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Newburgh, NY 2020
Design, Flow, Interpret, Repeat: Contemporary Abstraction, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua, NY 2018
Revivify, Kenise Barnes, Larchmont, New York 2018
Solace, 24 West 26th Street, New York 2017
New York Studio School Invitational 2017, New York Studio School, New York, New York 2017
Undercurrents: The River as Metaphor, curated by Livia Straus, Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, New York 2017
Taconic North, Labspace, Hillsdale, New York 2017
The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ 2017
Susan English, Sarah Hinckley and Melinda Stickney Gibson, Littlejohn Contemporary, Chelsea, NY 2014
Elemental, Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY 2014
UV Portfolio, Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY 2013
Abstraction: New Modernism, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY 2013
Currents: Contemporary Abstract Art in the Hudson Valley, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY 2012
Far and Wide, curated by David Ross, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY 2012
GLANCE: One day of art, curated by Jaanika Peerna and Susan English, Cold Spring, New York 2011
One for the Road, Vanbrunt Gallery, Beacon, NY 2011
Picture Show, Vanbrunt Gallery, Beacon, NY 2010
Little Big Things, Vanbrunt Gallery, Beacon, New York 2008
Span, Collaborative Concepts Gallery Beacon, New York 2005
Line to Light, Form to Color, Line to Volume, Collaborative Concepts Gallery, Beacon, NY 2001
Inaugural Exhibition in Cold Spring, Collaborative Concepts Gallery Cold Spring, New York 2000
Salon Show, Art in General New York, New York 1995
Physicality, Voorhees Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York 1991
Four Artists: Extended Vocabularies, Momenta Art AlternativesPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 1990
ART FAIRS:
SofaExpo, Intersect Chicago, Kathryn Markel Fine Art 2020
Pulse, Miami, K. Imperial Fine Art 2019
Art Market San Francisco, K. Imperial Fine Art 2018
Art on Paper, NYC Kathryn Markel Fine Art 2018
PUBLICATIONS:
IN THEIR STUDIOS: Susan English, Interview with Meg Hitchcock Steger, January 2022
Review of Periphery, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, Elizabeth Johnson, Delicious Line May 2019
Maine on my Mind, Review, Hall Rockefeller, Less than Half, May 2019
Under the Radar: Profile, Ann Landi, Vasari 21 May 2019
Susan English’s Material Sublime, Stephen Westfall, Introduction to Catalogue
Design, Flow, Interpret, Repeat Abounds with ‘Intellectual Happiness’ Anthony Bannon, The Chautauquan Daily, July 2018
At Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Three Female Artists Open the 2018 Exhibiiton Season, Widewalls Magazine
Review of Solace, Whitehot Magazine, Nov. 2017
Victory Hall Yearbook 2016, Drawing Rooms 2016
Susan English: Pourous Light, Highlands Current, 2016
Vertical Landscape, Catalogue with Introduction by Carter Ratcliff, 2014
Susan English: New Work on Display at Concrete Gallery, Eric Stark
Philipstown.Info October 2011
Drawn Together, Beth Wilson. Review of Drawing RevealedCo -Curated by Susan English and Little Big Things
Chronogram, February 2008
Opening a Window on the Creative Mind; Drawings and Images can be seen as Tools in a Process, or Works in Themselves, Benjamin Genocchio. Review of Drawing Revealed, Co-curated by Susan English
The New York Time, Januay 27, 2008
Gallery Views/Soho: Susan English at The Painting Center, Joseph Walentini
Abstract Art on Line, September 2003
Cover Story: What a Concept: “Arcade” at Collaborative Concepts features 3 solo shows
Taconic Weekend September 28, 2001
Seven Galleries Feature Work by 24 Artists, William Zimmer
The New York Times, Sunday, August 20, 2000
Salon Show Catalogue
Art in General, New York, New York
Review: Extended Vocabularies, at Momenta Art Alternatives
Philadelphia Inquirer, January 1990
PROFFESSIONAL, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2021 New York Studio School Mercedes Matter Award
2018 Ucross Foundation Residency, Ucross, Wyoming
2016 Fellow, Constance Saltenstall Foundation for the Arts
HFA Artists Residency, Garrison, New York 2010
Co-Curator
“Drawing Revealed”
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York 2008
Co – Producer of documentary “Drawing Revealed” 2008
Visiting Artist
Haldane Central School, Cold Spring, New York 2000-2006
Teaching Artist
Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York
Collaborative Class: Beacon Highschool 2004
Founding member
Curatorial Committee member
Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, New York 2002-2004
EDUCATION
MFA Hunter College 1987-1989
New York Studio School 1986-1987
BA Hamilton College 1978-1982