SUSAN LAUFER (born 1950). Modernist Abstract, Light Series #3, 1992, 19-1/2" x 25-1/2" sight size mixed media, acrylic and plaster on paper (framed size: 24" x 30") signed lower right. We found a smaller piece on another site for sale, a 11.75" x 11.75" with an asking price of $1500.00. See photograph 4. SHIPS WITHOUT GLASS!
She lives and works in Soho in NYC where she has been a resident since 1976 and in Martha's Vineyard MA. Born in New York in 1950, she received a BFA from Boston University School of Fine Arts and an MA in Painting at New York University.
Susan has work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; The Denver Museum of Art, CO; The New Museum, NY; Carnegie Art Museum, CA: The Tufts University Art Museum, MA; Greenville County Art Museum, SC; Northern Illinois University Museum, Ill; The Rahr-West Museum, WI; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, MN; The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art NEA Fellowship Archive, Wash DC and other major public and private collections. She has shown extensively in one person and group shows in the United States and abroad.
Noteworthy group exhibitions include The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, NY curated by William Lieberman; Spencer Art Museum, KA/ Seattle Art Museum, WA curated by Kay Larson; Greenville County Museum Of Art, SC curated by Tom Styron; Albright-Knox Museum, NY; Edith Blum Art Institute Bard College, NY; Denver Art Museum CO, curated by Dianne Vanderlip; Muscarelle Museum Of Art, VA; Nassau County Museum Of Art, NY; Collection of the Metropolitan Museum Of Art; Cleveland Center For Contemporary Art, OH; Queens Museum Of Art, NY curated by Barbara Matilsky;The High Museum, GA; Montclair Art Museum, NJ, curated by Janice Oresman; The Aldrich Museum, CT, curated by D. Maxwell; Rahr-West Museum, WI; Frederick R. Weisman Museum Of Art, MN; California Museum Of Art, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, CA.
Susan is the recipient of two National Endowment of the Arts Awards in Painting and other grants and awards. She has printed with PACE Editions in New York and Experimental Workshop in California. Susan's work is in many books and publications including History of Modern Art by H.H. Arnason, Harry N. Abrams Publisher.
After college, Susan traveled in Afghanistan, Iran, Morocco, Egypt and across Europe. The indigenous ancient architecture, artifacts and layers of eroding landscapes became significant influences in her work. Her process has been described as a psychological excavation connected to a long history of painterly abstraction.
Sources:
Askart; The artist's website
Information provided by William Herckenrath
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Amerada Hess Corporation, New York, NY
American Airlines, Chicago, Illinois
American Express Company, New York, NY
Arthur Andersen and Company, New York, NY
Baker and Daniels, Indianapolis, Indiana
Bowers, Inc., New Jersey
BP America, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Burell, Inc., New Jersey
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Claremont Paint, Chicago, Illinois
Clennin McCabe, Boston, Massachusetts
Consolidated Group Trust, Boston, Massachusetts
Continental Group, Chicago, Illinois
Cordon Littleman, Boston, Massachusetts
Cunningham and Associates, New York, NY
Denver Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado
Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, Michigan
Entertainment International, Detroit, Michigan
Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Ferkauf Foundation, New York, NY
First Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Greenville County Art Museum, Greenville, South Carolina
Harkness-Peate, Chicago, Illinois
Harris Bank, Chicago, Illinois
Hewlett Packard, San Francisco, California
The Home Insurance Co., New York, New York
HPB Associates, New York, New York
E. F. Hutton, New York, New York
I.B.M., Chicago, Illinois
I.D.S., New Jersey
IMC, New York, New York
Inter-Metro Industries, Inc., Wilkes-Barres, PA
JMB Realty Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Lang Communications, Vermont
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (link)
McDermott, Will, and Emory, Chicago, Illinois
Misaki-Ando Museum, Osaka, Japan
R. Maslow Collection, Pennsylvania
The New Museum, New York, NY
Northern Illinois University Museum, Illinois
NAME Model Management, New York, NY
Pitman-Moore, Mundelein, Illinois
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Heights, Ohio
Proskauer, Rose, and Goetz, New York, NY
Pritchard-Taylor, Vermont
Prudential Insurance, New Jersey and Chicago, Illinois
Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Refco Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Rothe-Johnson, New Jersey
Reuben and Proctor, Chicago, Illinois
Screen Actors Guild, Los Angeles, California
Shearson-Lehman Brothers Inc., New York, NY
Simpson, Thacher, Bartlett, New York, NY
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art, NEA Fellowship Archive, Washington D.C.
Steele Associates, Chicago, Illinois
Steinroe and Farnham Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Sonoma State University Art Collection, Rohnert Park, California
Southeast Bank, Miami, Florida
Suddler Marling, Chicago, Illinois
The Swiss Bank Corporation, New York, NY
Towers, Perrins, Foster, Crosby, New York, NY
Tuft's University Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
U. S. Equities, Chicago, Illinois
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, University of MN, Minn, MN
Wellington Management Trust Co., Boston, Massachusetts

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