Current Exhibition
Join us on
Friday, November 1 from 6:30 – 8 pm
in
for a short film screening and opening reception celebrating the exhibition of Susan Sommer’s work on view at the Kimmel Cultural Campus First Tier Promenade from October 12, 2024 – February 1, 2025.
Filmmaker Samantha Schutz’s Silent Rhythm, A Selection of Recent Paintings by Susan Sommer surveys a selection of Sommer’s paintings from the past year. We see the artist work on the painting An Experiment, from its start to its completion. Critic Peter Frank and curator Robert Metzger, who have followed Sommer’s work for more than twenty years, provide additional commentary. Metzger and Schutz will join Susan Sommer in conversation following the screening of the film.
Sommer’s work continues to evolve with the inspiration that comes from the seasonal shifts of her natural surroundings. These recent works reflect time spent immersed in Upstate New York’s landscapes and are created as abstract scenes observed through her studio’s picture window. With an ongoing soundtrack of jazz in the background, Sommer brings the foothills of the Catskill Mountains to life in bold strokes and blocks of color that dance within the confines of each canvas. She describes her process as a “rhythmic evolution” where colors are applied in response to sound and light—the physical act of painting becomes a dance and the resulting image is created as an extension of these environmental prompts.
Susan Sommer received her BFA from Moore College of Art & Design in 1972 and studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1965-70. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Albuquerque Museum, NM; Government House of St. Vincent, West Indies; University of Santa Clara, CA; and Vanderbilt University, TN. She has exhibited widely and nationally for over fifty years. Sommer has also published a children’s book titled An Awakening in the Jungle, a story about inclusion and understanding that she both wrote and illustrated.
Previous Exhibitions
Study in Green and Red , 30 x 24 inches, Oil on linen, 2021
Silvermine Arts Center
Guild Summer Salon Exhibit
July 21 – August 20, 2020.
The Fruitarian Oil on Linen 48 x 36 inches 2019
THAT LAYERED LOOK II
JANUARY 18 – FEBRUARY 26, 2020
at
Tufenkian Fine Art
216 S Louise St, Glendale, CA 91205
Curated By
Peter Frank
Alexander | Charles Arnoldi | Fatemeh Burnes | Sigrid Burton | Rhea Carmi | André B. Carter | Guy Dill | Moshe Elimelech | Megan Frances | Andrew Frank | Kaye Freeman | Gago | Tanner Goldbeck | Alexandra Grant | Diane Holland | Raffi Kalenderian | Mela M. | Laurie Raskin | Alain Rogier | David S. Rubin | Randi Russo | Rafael Serrano | Danny Shain |Susan Sironi | Susan Sommer | Robert Standish | Laurie Yehia | Torie Zalben
Opening Reception
Saturday, January 18, 2020
6:00 to 9:00 pm
Closing Reception With Walkthrough
Led By Peter Frank
Sunday, February 23, 2020
3:00 to 6:00 pm
A Simple Flower, 48x 36 inches, Oil on Linen, 2018
New Members Exhibit
at the Silvermine Art Center,
1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840,
January 9 to February 6, 2019.
Opening Reception will be Sunday, January 13, 2-4 PM
Puzzling Series I, 14 x 11 inches, oil on board
Puzzling Series II, 14 x 11 inches, oil on board
Puzzling Series III, 14 x 11 inches, oil on board
The above two paintings have been selected by Juror, Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut as part of the
68th Art of the Northeast Juried Competition Exhibit
at Silvermine Arts Center,
1037 Silvermine Road,
New Canaan, CT 06840.
Telephone: 203-966-9700
July 14 – August 25, 2018
Opening Reception: July 14, 2018, 6-8 PM
Hope I, oil on linen, 30 x 24 inches, 2016
Very Concerned, oil on linen, 48 x 36 inches, 2017
Waterloo Arts Juried Exhibition 2018
The show will begin June 1 and run through July 21, 2018.
Waterloo Arts
15605 Waterloo Road,
Cleveland, OHIO 44110.
Image: Colorless, 66 x 52 inches, oil on linen, 2017
Pattern, Power, Chaos and Quiet
Group show
Opening Reception: February 22, 5:30-7-00pm
February 22 – March 31, 2018
Housatonic Museum of Art
900 Lafayette Boulevard,
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Image: Red Squares, oil on linen, 36 x 48 inches, 2014
FREE FORM 5
Group show
October 7 – November 18
Opening Reception,
October 7, 5-7 pm.
at the
Elga Wimmer Gallery
526 W 26 St #310
New York, NY 1001
Study in Blue-Brown
oil on board, 2013
20 x 16 inches
Study in Blue-Deep Brown
oil on board, 2013
20 x 16 inches
City Squares
oil on linen, 2017
66 x 52 inches
Light in Autumn
oil on linen, 2013
52 x 66 inches
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“Threesomes IV”
oil on board, 2015
8″ x 16″
Will be shown, along with 16 other works at the EXPO Contemporary Art Show at the Reef, Downtown Los Angeles, CA
April 21 – 23, 2017
Opening night party on Friday, April 21, 6 – 10 pm.
Have been selected by juror Bruce Weber for inclusion in the Far and Wide Art Regional Exhibition, at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum,
May 6 – 28, 2017.
Opening reception will be held on Saturday, May 6, between 4 – 6 pm
Threesomes I
oil on board, 2015
8″ x 16″
Digital Blues
oil on board, 2014
8″ x 16″
“L. A. Art Show 2017”
AC GALLERY
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Los Angeles Convention Center
Booth #1018
1201 South Figueroa Street
West Hall
January 11-15, 2017
“Puzzling“, oil on linen, 48 x 36 inches, 2016.
“Progression”
Edward Williams Gallery
Petrocelli College
Fairleigh Dickinson University
150 Kotte Place
Hackensack, NJ 07601
October 31 – December 2, 2016
“Progression”
Oil paintings and gouache on Paper
The Joyce Goldstein Gallery
16 Main Street
Chatham, NY 12037
November 5-December 2, 2016
Opening reception: Saturday, Nov. 5, 4-6 PM
“Untitled”, 11 x 14 inches, Gouache on Paper, 2016
“GALLERY ARTISTS, PART X”
Walter Wickiser Gallery
210 Eleventh Avenue, Suite 303
New York, NY 10001
June 20 – August 17, 2013
Opening Reception: June 20, 2013, 6 – 8 pm
“Bright Winter”, oil on linen, 36 x 48 inches, 2013
Women Artists of the Permanent Collection:
Mid-Nineteenth Century to Present Day
Exhibition: January 12 – April 21 2013
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
“Untitled”, oil stick on paper
“BLUE”
September 15 – November 30, 2012
The Gallery at the Saugerties Performing Arts Factory
169 Ulster Avenue
Saugerties, NY 12477
While Listening to Ella,
oil on linen, 48 x 36 inches
1999 – 2000 by Susan Sommer
Solo show:
Walter Wickiser Gallery
210 W. 11th Avenue, Suite 303, New York, NY 10001,
Tel: 212 941 1817
Susan Sommer works from 2010 – 2012
The Personal is Natural
Show Runs: May 19 – June 16, 2012
“Green Opening”, Oil on linen, 60″x72″, 2011
“Winter Show”
Reception December 3 from 3-6 PM
Closes December 30.
Blue Mountain Gallery
530 W. 25th, 4Fl.
New York, NY
“Arcs” 2010 by Susan Sommer will be on view at Blue Mountain Gallery’s
“Nature Walk”
July 29 – August 15
installation shots at the Becket Arts Center,
7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket, MA
April 3 – May 2.
The Woodstock Artists Association and Museum Installation Shots
28 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498, (845) 679-2490
