Suzy Wahl
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b. 1940, St Louis, Missouri
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006 Contemporary Baskets 2006, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 The American Art Company Third Contemporary Basket Invitational,
The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
2003 Other Baskets, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
The American Art Company Second Contemporary Basket Invitational, The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
Fiber and Feminism, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA
2002 Baskets Now: USA, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Contemporary Art Basket Invitational, The American Art Company,Tacoma, WA
2000-02 Contemporary Baskets, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Woven Constructions, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2000 Beyond The Fringe, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Collaborative Show, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Collaborators, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Facsimile, Textile Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Regional Craft Biennial, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1997 Fiber Focus ‘97, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Forming Connections: A Fiber Invitational, Legacy Art and Book Works, Columbia, MO
Contemporary Baskets ‘97, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Art St. Louis XII, Juried Exhibition, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
1994 30th Anniversary Holiday Exhibition, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Second Annual Teapot Invitational, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
1993 Black, White and Bold, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
First Annual Teapot Invitational, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
29th AnniversaryHoliday Exhibition, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Baskets: Tradition and Beyond, Leier, Peters and Wallace
Baskets Now: USA, Arkansas Art Center
500 Baskets, Lark Books
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
The idea of container with its interior space suggests to me the passions and turmoil within that are only alluded to on the exterior visible skin. Light shinning on and through the irregular surface lets my pictorial narratives have a more personal ‘telling” of the story. By using unmatched glass beads I can choose each individual bead for its particular variation of color, shape, size and texture to make the “fabric” that is my canvas. Using a technique of netted beading gives my hands a controlled pleasure as I construct the vessel and a sense of “building “ textured walls for each piece.
ABOUT THE WORK
Treasured Memories: Never Shared
Delicate, fragile and faded…memories found in old trunks and boxes… hidden from view in closets and attics. When found, the meaning and importance testified to only in the reality of the keeping. Who did they belong to? When were they used? Why have they been saved? Without the story, they are only objects … objects that elicit questions.
Questions that beg answers…the most disquieting … those that are unanswerable. “Who can tell me now?” “Why didn’t you tell me?” “What was its importance to you?”
Left without its significance, is it discarded? Is it entrusted to a present generation to be used? Does it return to its hiding place, to become an enigmatic curiosity for another discoverer? Tell me. Tell me. Tell me.
But mostly, "Why aren’t you here to tell me now?" The unanswerable.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006 Contemporary Baskets 2006, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 The American Art Company Third Contemporary Basket Invitational,
The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
2003 Other Baskets, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
The American Art Company Second Contemporary Basket Invitational, The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
Fiber and Feminism, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA
2002 Baskets Now: USA, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Contemporary Art Basket Invitational, The American Art Company,Tacoma, WA
2000-02 Contemporary Baskets, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Woven Constructions, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2000 Beyond The Fringe, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Collaborative Show, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Collaborators, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Facsimile, Textile Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Regional Craft Biennial, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1997 Fiber Focus ‘97, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Forming Connections: A Fiber Invitational, Legacy Art and Book Works, Columbia, MO
Contemporary Baskets ‘97, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Art St. Louis XII, Juried Exhibition, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
1994 30th Anniversary Holiday Exhibition, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Second Annual Teapot Invitational, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
1993 Black, White and Bold, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
First Annual Teapot Invitational, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
29th AnniversaryHoliday Exhibition, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Baskets: Tradition and Beyond, Leier, Peters and Wallace
Baskets Now: USA, Arkansas Art Center
500 Baskets, Lark Books
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
The idea of container with its interior space suggests to me the passions and turmoil within that are only alluded to on the exterior visible skin. Light shinning on and through the irregular surface lets my pictorial narratives have a more personal ‘telling” of the story. By using unmatched glass beads I can choose each individual bead for its particular variation of color, shape, size and texture to make the “fabric” that is my canvas. Using a technique of netted beading gives my hands a controlled pleasure as I construct the vessel and a sense of “building “ textured walls for each piece.
ABOUT THE WORK
Treasured Memories: Never Shared
Delicate, fragile and faded…memories found in old trunks and boxes… hidden from view in closets and attics. When found, the meaning and importance testified to only in the reality of the keeping. Who did they belong to? When were they used? Why have they been saved? Without the story, they are only objects … objects that elicit questions.
Questions that beg answers…the most disquieting … those that are unanswerable. “Who can tell me now?” “Why didn’t you tell me?” “What was its importance to you?”
Left without its significance, is it discarded? Is it entrusted to a present generation to be used? Does it return to its hiding place, to become an enigmatic curiosity for another discoverer? Tell me. Tell me. Tell me.
But mostly, "Why aren’t you here to tell me now?" The unanswerable.