Brad Cooper Gallery

ARTIST

SUSAN SCHWALB

Education

BFA Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
High School of Music and Art, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2003 Robert Steele Gallery, NYC Afterimage: Recent Metalpoint Paintings and Drawings
Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ Recent Metalpoint Paintings and Drawings

2002 Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX Let There Be Light

2001 M.Y. Art Prospects, NYC Palimpsest: Recent Metalpoint Paintings and Drawings

1999 Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston MA Moments of Resonance: Recent Metalpoint Paintings and Drawings

1998 Birke Art Gallery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV Improvisations on Outer Space: Recent Metallic

Works on Paper

1997 Arthur B. Mazmanian Art Gallery, Framingham State College, Framingham, MA Improvisations on

Outer Space: Recent Metallic Paintings and Silverpoint Drawings

1996 Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, MA Galaxies & Other Matter: Recent Metallic Paintings
Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA Intervals: Silverpoint Paintings

1994 American Cultural Center, Jerusalem, Israel Silverpoint Drawings 1987–1993
Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, MA Intervals: Silverpoint Paintings

1992-1994 B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington DC, The Creation Series
(tour: May Museum of Judaica, Lawrence, NY; Chase/Freedman Gallery, Greater Hartford JCC,

West Hartford, CT; Robert I. Kahn Gallery, Congregation Emanu El, Houston, TX) (catalogue)

1990 Yeshiva University Museum, NYC The Creation Series: 15 Years of Silverpoint

1989 Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL Silverpoint Drawings

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2003 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC Book as Art XV: Insomnia
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL Visions of Passage

2002 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Recent Acquisitions
Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Three Person Show
Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary

Works on Paper Part Two: Everywhere but California
Miami Art Fair, FL, with M.Y. Art Prospects, NY
Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA New England/New Talent & A Nation Mourns: Artists Respond (catalogue)

2001 Dorsky Gallery, NYC At the Edge: The Horizon Line in Contemporary Art
Jim Kempner Fine Arts, NYC Minimalennialism
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Burn: Artists Play with Fire (catalogue)

2000 Basel Art Fair, Switzerland, with Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL The Rose Art Museum,

Waltham, MA Visual Memoirs: Paintings and Drawings
The Stockholm Art Fair 2000, Sweden; kunstKÖlN 2000, Germany with M.Y. Art Prospects, NYC
The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, MA
A Decade of Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings, 1960-2000
Robert Steele Gallery, NYC Group Exhibition

The Art Store, Charleston, WV Vernal Equinox

2000-2001 The College of Santa Fe, NM Jewish Artists: On the Edge (tour: The Albuquerque Art Museum, NM;

Yeshiva University Museum, NYC) (catalogue)
Hebrew Union College, NYC Living in The Moment: Contemporary Artists Celebrate Jewish Time (catalogue)

1999 Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA Ninth Triennial (catalogue)

1998 Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC Vibrations
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC Book As Art X
Kunsterler House, Vienna, Austria Pierogi 2000, NY-Flatfiles

1997 The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn (tour: Gasworks, London and

Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Wynn

Kramarsky Inc, NYC Recent Acquisitions
Jeffery Coploff Fine Art Ltd, NYC Sizzle and The Art Exchange 1997

1996 Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Large Drawings and Objects: Structural Foundations of Clarity (catalogue)

Harvard Club, Boston, MA Drawings from Boston: Selections from The Boston Public Library Collection

Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, MA Viewpoints II
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 25 Years of Feminism, 25 Years of Women's Art

1994 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Power, Pleasure, Pain: Contemporary Women

Artists and the Female Body
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL Drawing, Discovery, and Diversity
Suffolk Community College, Long Island, NY Contemporary Metalpoint Drawing

1993 Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO Sanctuaries:

Recovering the Holy in Contemporary Art
Pino Molica Gallery, NYC Extrapolation

1993-1998 Yeshiva University Museum, NYC Aishet Hayil—Woman of Valour (catalogue) (tour: Skirball Museum,

Cincinnati, OH; The Mitzel Museum of Judaica, Denver, CO; Janice Charach Epstein Museum, West Bloomfield, MI;

Plotkin Museum of Judaica, Phoenix, AZ; Kanner Heritage Museum, North York, Ontario, Canada; Morris Louis Gallery,

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel)

1992-1993 Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Silverpoint Etcetra: Contemporary American Metalpoint Drawings

(catalogue) (tour: Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Museum of FineArts, St. Petersburg, FL;

Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philladelphia, PA)
Pino Molica Gallery, (tour: NYC, then Rome, Italy Europa-America: “360” E-VENTI) (catalogue)

Public Collections (selected)

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA

Arkansas Arts Center Foundation, Little Rock, AR

The British Museum, London, England

The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

The Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Museum of Art/Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis, MO

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

The National Museum of Women in the Arts,

The Library and Research Center, Washington D.C.

The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX

The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Wesleyan University, Davidson Art Center, Middletown, CT

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY

Corporate Collections (selected)

The Art Hotel, New York, NY

Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA

Bromberg & Sunstein, Boston, MA

Chase Manhattan Bank, NYC

C.S.C. Index, Chicago, IL

Crown Plaza Ravinia Hotel, Atlanta, GA

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

Independence Investments Associates, Inc. Boston, MA

Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA

Office Environments of New England, Boston, MA

Pfizer Inc., New York, NY

The Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common, Boston, MA

Sonesta International Hotels Corp., Boston, MA

West Bay Lagoon Hotel, Doha, Qatar

Fellowships/Grants (selected)

1994 Artist-in-Residence, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, Israel
Artist-in Residence, Tel Aviv Artists Studios, Tel Aviv, Israel

1992 The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA

1989 Exhibitions Grant, Committee for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Artists Space, NYC

1989 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

Bibliography (selected)

Broude, Norma and Garrard, Mary (ed), “The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the

1970‘s History and Impact“, Harry Abrams, 1994

Cohen, Joyce Galaxies and Other Matter and Intervals, Art New England, August/September 1996

Faxon, Alicia Visual Memoirs-Rose Art Museum, Art New England, April/May 2000

Faxon, Alicia Susan Schwalb: Moments of Resonance, Art New England, June/July, 1999

Faxon, Alicia Drawing: Line or Image, New Art Examiner, January 1990

Gregoricus, Jason Female Artists Hang at the Fogg, Cambridge Chronicle, December 9, 1993

Harrison, Helen A. Contemporary Metalpoint Drawings, The New York Times, April 3, 1994

Heller, Jules and Nancy G. American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, Garland Publishing Co., 1995

Hightower, Marvin The Female Body as Seen by Its Inhabitants, Harvard Gazette, April 15, 1994

Horowitz, Stash, Arts Alive: World Series, Back Bay Courant, April 30, 1996

Langdon, Ann The Creation Series, Art New England, December 1992/January 1993

Langer, Cassandra The Creation Series: 15 Years of Silverpoint, Women Artists News, Fall 1990

McQuaid, Cate Public eyes; light grids; gallery on the MBTA, The Boston Globe, March 4, 1999

McQuaid,Cate The artists who made '96 memorable, The Boston Globe, December 26, 1996

McQuaid, Cate Natural deceptions; rejoicing stars, Boston Globe, May 2, 1996

Orenstein, Gloria Feman The Reflowering of the Goddess, The Athene Series, Pergamon Press, 1990

Schwendenwien, Jude From Religious Symbols to Detailed Abstractions, The Hartford Courant, October 25, 1992

Soltes, Ori Contexts: Jews and Art at the End of the Millennium, Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion

on Art at the Millennium, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT 2000

Soltes, Ori Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century, Brandeis University Press/University

Press of New England, 2003

Temin, Christine Our Art, Ourselves—Provocative Show Explores the Ways Women See Women,

The Boston Globe, March 30, 1994

Waterman, Jill Delicate Understandings, ArtsMedia, June 15 - July 15, 2000

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