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Art Resume

Paintings

New Paintings (2006-2009):

• Après le Déluge (1983-2006, 48 x 60"): detail
• Blue Ladies (2006, 11 x 14"). Collection: Michael Davidson.
• Childhood's End (2006, 20 x 16")
• Chinoiserie (2007, 16 x 20")
• Dark Pond (2007, 37 x 50")
• Escape (2007, 14 x 10"). Collection: Francie Shaw and Bob Perelman.
• Eye of the Storm (2007, 48 x 51")
• Fallen Angel (2008-2009, 12" round). Collection: Susan Bernstein.
• The Flood (1983-2006, 52 x 68"): full image, detail 1, detail 2
• Happy Anniversary (2006, 16 x 12")
• Hovering Angels (2007, 51 x 48") . Collection: Leslie and Donald Gross.
• How Deep is the Ocean (2006, 50 x 60") detail 1
• In a Medieval Garden (2007, 20 x 20"). Collection: Mimi Gross.
• Island Life (2008, 24 x 48")
• The Joker (2006, 16 x 12"). Collection: Diane Ward.
• Meteoric Blooms (2006, 16 x 20")
• No Regrets (2007, 16 x 20")
• Paradise Lost (2008, 12 x 16", oil and collage on linen). Collection: Jennifer Bartlett.
• Radiant Islands (2006, 38 x 50"). Collection: Michael Davidson.
• Sheds of Our Webs (2006, 16 x 12") . Collection: Abigail Child.
• Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth (2006, 11 x 14"). Collection: Adrienne Rich.
• Tender is the Knight (2008, 14 x 18"). Collection: Tracie Morris.
• The Big Wave (2008, 20 x 16")
• The Red Door (2008, 16 x 12"). Collection: Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster.
• Triangle Noir (2006, 20 x 16")
• Unbridled Dawn (2006, 8 x 8"). Collection: Rachel Levitsky.
• Vertigo (2008, 12 x 16")
• Wanderer in a Sea of Fog (2008, 18 x 14") . Collection: Peter and Susan Straub.

Philosophical Trees (2004-2005):

• Bound and Unbound (2004, 58 x 38"): full image, detail. Collection: Arlene Stein.
• Bound (2005, 20 x 16"). Collection: Eileen Myles.
• Celestial Mechanics (2005, 50 x 44"): full image, detail 1, detail 2
• Diving into the Wreck (2005, 52 x 68"). Collection: Leslie Scalapino and Tom White.
• Petite Noir (2006, 10 x 10"). Collection: Joan McClusky and Ted Greenwald.
• Roots and Branches (2004, 54 x 50"): full image, detail 1, detail 2
• The Island (2005, 38 x 48"). Collection: Peter Gizzi and Elizabeth Willis.
• The Rescue (2005, 28 x 22"). Collection: Bob Perelman and Francie Shaw.
• Tree of Lost Dreams (2004, 40 x 50"): full image, detail 1, detail 2
• Tree Tease (2005, 16 x 20"). Collection: Robert C. Morgan.

Selected Paintings (1997-2005):

• Aloha (1997, 50 x 68")
• Amor Perdido (2002, 20 x 24”). Collection: Peter and Meredith Quartermain.
• Arabesque (2002, 58 x 40”): full image, detail 1, detail
• The Bell Cracked (1997, 58 x 48”)
• Beware the Lady (1999, 50 x 40”)
• Fleurs de Mal (2003, 58 x 36"): full image, detail 1, detail 2
• Fox (cover of Adrienne Rich book, 2001). Collection: Nick Piombino and Toni Simon.
• Her Candle Burns Hot (1999, 48 x 34”)
• Human or Inhuman? (2003, 20 x 24")
• Ice Cream Sunday (1998, 48 x 66”)
• Love is a Gentle Whip (1999, 36 x 48")
• Miss Dynamite (2001, 50 x 34”)
• See No Evil (2001, 25 x 16")
• Sign Under Test (with poems by Charles Bernstein) (2002, 34 x 52): full image, detail 1, detail 2
• Sojourner's Truth (2000, 16 X10”). Collection: Erica Hunt and Marty Ehrlich.
• Sprung Monuments (with poems by Charles Bernstein) (2000, 50 x 56”): full image, detail 1, detail 2 
• Weird Tales (2001, 50 x 52”): full image, detail 1, detail
• Women Take Over (2005, 20 x 24")
  
  Note: All paintings are oil, or mixed media, and collage on linen.

Selected Early Paintings (1981-1984) (oil on linen):

• City Lights (1981, 50 x 38")
• Doomed to Win, (1983, 50 x 54")
• Dousing the Fire (1981, 50 x 46")
• Fighters (1983, 64 x 48")
• Framing the Rosenbergs (1983, 28 x 32")
• Marsden Hartley Meets Wonder Woman (1983, 30 x 20"). Collection: Jon Friedman and Joanne Barkan.
• Mr Bugs Goes to Town (1983, 24 x 36")
• Odalisque (1983, 50 x 68")
• Otranto (1984, 40 x 50")
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Pig (1983, 50 x 60")
• The Postman Rings Twice (1987, 50 x 40"). Collection: Jesse Ausubel.
• The Quarrel (1983, 12 x 12")
• Winged Flight ( 1982, 60 x 52")

Books/Collaborations

• The Burning Babe & Other Poems, with poems by Jerome Rothenberg (Granary Books, 2005): complete book (pdf); page 1, page 9, page 12, page 13, page 17, page 19, page 26, page 30, page 31, page 35
• A Girl's Life, with writing by Johanna Drucker and collaborative design (Granary Books, 2002): page 5, page 43
• Bed Hangings, with poems by Susan Howe (Granary Books, 2001): image 1, image 2
• Log Rhythms, with poems by Charles Bernstein (Granary Books, 1998) (complete book at UBU)
• Little Orphan Anagram, with poems by Charles Bernstein (Granary Books, 1997) (excerpts from Riding the Meridian)
• Talespin (Granary Books, 1995)  
• Liquid Perceptions (1994)
• Fool 's Gold, with poems by Charles Bernstein (Chax Press, 1991)
• The Nude Formalism, with poems by Charles Bernstein (Other Voices, e-edn., 2006; Sun & Moon, 1989) Pages: Title page,"Gosh"
• The Occurrence of Tune, with poems by Charles Bernstein (Segue, 1981) (complete book on Eclipse)
• Not (Asylum's Press, 1980)
• Johnny June, with poem by Charles Bernstein (1971)
• Marat/Sade poster (1970)

Drawings

• Butterfly Boy (2002, 16 x 22"). Collection: Charles Morrow.
• Woman with Fan (2005, 16 x 22")
• Shadowtime studies (Walter Benjamin collages) (2000, 12 x 9")

Editor (with Mira Schor)

• The M/E/A/N/I/N/G Anthology (Duke University Press)
• M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online
• Ripple Effects -- issue of New Observations

Artist's Statements

• "Is Resistance Futile" (from M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online, 2002)
• Poetry Plastique statement (2001)

Interviews and Talks

• Complicit! web site
  Complicit! interview with Susan Bee
• Elizabeth Licata, Interview with Susan Bee (1999)
• James Shivers interview on collaboration with Susan Bee & Charles Bernstein,
  (M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online, 2003)
• Susan Bee and Johanna Drucker, Bowery Poetry Club (May 5, 2007)

Reviews & Catalog Essays

• Miriam Atkins, "Sputtering Regularity:Eye of the Storm" (April 2009)
• Joshua Cohen, "For This Mother and Daughter, The Family Business Is Culture," Forword (2006)
• Holland Cotter on M/E/A/N/I/N/G in Arts Journal (2003)
• Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, "Susan Bee," in Brooklyn Rail (May 2007)
• Johanna Drucker, "Seeing Double: Miriam Laufer and Susan Bee" (catalog essay, 2006)
• Johanna Drucker, "She'll Get Hers," Art Papers (1998)
• Jonathan Goodman in Art in America (2006)
• Jonathan Goodman in Art in America (1998)
• Vincent Katz, "Brooklyn in Winter," Vanitas Magazine, March 2, 2009
• Thomas McEvilley in Art in America (2000)
• Meredith Mendelsohn, Review of Susan Bee's "Eye of the Storm," Art News (June 2009)
• Ellen Kennedy Michel on Belladonna Elders#4 in Rain Taxi Online (Spring 2009)
• Robert C. Morgan, "Susan Bee and Miriam Laufer: Seeing Double" in Brooklyn Rail (2006)
• Craig Olson, "Susan Bee: Eye of the Storm" in Brooklyn Rail (March 2009)
• Tim Peterson on Night A.I.R. with Bernstein/Bee & Perelman/Shaw (2006)
• Tim Peterson on Susan Bee & Charles Bernstein image/text talk at the Analagous Series (2004)
• Raphael Rubinstein on M/E/A/N/I/N/G in Art in America (2002)
• David Shapiro, “Susan Bee: The Only Empress in a Dark Time” (catalog essay, 2001)
• Ron Silliman on Belladonna Elders#4 (March 23, 2009)
• Ron Silliman on "Seeing Double" (Jan. 24, 2006)
• Misko Suvakovic, "Painting After Painting: The Paintings of Susan Bee" from M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology (2000)
• Eileen Tabios in Review.com (2000)
• Chris Tysh on A Girl's Life (from Metro Times, 2002)
• John Yau, "Beware the Lady" (catalog essay, 2000)

Links

• A.I.R. Gallery
• Brooklyn Museum Feminist Art Base
• Pierogi Flat Files
• Callicoon Fine Arts
• Emma Bee Bernstein
• Sigmund Laufer
• Miriam Laufer
  
  
  
  Send e-mail to Susan Bee: bernstei at bway.net

Updated June 2009

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