3.26.2018

SUSAN KEISER: Portraits in Beacon New York

PORTRAITS
© Susan Keiser 2018

PORTRAITS
© Susan Keiser 2018

Opening Sat April 14, Reception 6-8pm

Catalyst Gallery
137 Main St
Beacon, NY 12508

Barbaric Glass
© Susan Keiser 2018

One of my favorite Susan Keiser series is Barbaric Glass. "I grew up in a house of secrets. From the outside, it was an ordinary white-picketed colonial on a dead-end street. But past the eagle doorknocker, the only constant was that what happened within was private, never to be verbalized much less shared. Homes are supposed to be sanctuaries, but there was no safety there." Read more here

 A River Made of Time and Memory
© Susan Keiser 2018

Susan Keiser is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, she was a resident teaching artist at the Lincoln Center Institute, New York, NY; curated a collection of handmade paper art for The Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla, CA; and was selected for the viewing program and Artist Registry of The Drawing Center, New York, NY. She has created site-specific installations commissioned by public and private institutions. As Senior Editor at Oxford University Press, she was responsible for establishing their academic and scholarly journals program in the United States, acquiring titles in fields ranging from fine art to cultural studies and from neuroscience to Holocaust studies. Read more here 


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