
Weil’s work is on view alongside sculpture by Kiki Smith and photography by Candida Höferpart in a group show of women artists who approach their work in relation to science, history and literature.
Susan Weil is fascinated by the relationship between seeing and knowing, and how to represent time, motion and language. She often fractures the picture plane in her work, deconstructing and reconstructing images using a range of materials including collage, blueprint, and paint on recycled canvas, acrylic and wood.
Coming of age at the center of the New York School with its eclectic cultural influences and interdisciplinary experimentation, Weil studied under Josef Albers at Black Mountain College. Her peers included Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly. But unlike her contemporaries, Weil has never been afraid to pursue figuration and reference reality, drawing inspiration from nature, literature, photographs and her personal history, embracing serious and playful elements in her work.
Over the years, she cultivated strong interests in the great modern Irish author James Joyce, the Persian poet Rumi, and the pioneering English-American photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Weil also studied in Paris and has exhibited in Sweden and Germany. Otherwise, however, she says, “I don’t travel a lot, but I travel in my mind.” She concludes: “I stand on a Susan spot. The world and the art world shift and change around me. I also deepen and build. It is a special perspective to watch this double cycling.”
Susan Weil's work was included in the exhibition Frontiers Reimagined, a collateral event of the 56th Venice Biennale. Other notable exhibitions include Bauhaus and America: Experiments in Light and Movement at the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Germany, and Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, which premiered in 2015 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and then traveled to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, Columbus. Her work was also shown in James Joyce: Shut Your Eyes and See at the Poetry Collection, University of Buffalo, New York.
Weil is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her work is held in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide including in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany; Asheville Museum, North Carolina; The J. Paul Getty Museum, California; Graphische Sammlung, Munich; The Menil Collection, Houston; The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina; National Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge; and the New York Public Library, The Spencer Collection, New York, among others.
In 2010, Skira Editore published Susan Weil: Moving Pictures, a comprehensive monograph documenting her large and diverse body of art, livres d’artiste and poetry.
Born in New York in 1930 | Lives and works in New York
Weil’s work is on view alongside sculpture by Kiki Smith and photography by Candida Höferpart in a group show of women artists who approach their work in relation to science, history and literature.
Susan Weil’s work is on view in the exhibition Photography and the Surreal Imagination.
Susan Weil’s work is on view in the exhibition Question Everything! The Women of Black Mountain College.
Susan Weil's work is on view in Intersections in American Art.
A collaborative work by Susan Weil and Robert Rauschenberg is on view.
Susan Weil's work is currently on view in Once in a Blue Moon at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle. The exhibition comprises seminal works from 1989 to the present.
Susan Weil's work is currently on view in Bauhaus and America: Experiments in Light and Movement, an exhibition at the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Germany that celebrates work by the Bauhaus artists who left Europe after it closed in 1933 and came to America to carry forward their ideas and influence a new generation of American artists.
We are pleased to announce that gallery artist Susan Weil is featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends.
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We are pleased to announce that gallery artist Susan Weil will be featured in Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College, the first in-depth exhibition of the history of photography at the storied institution. Her work will be featured alongside photographs by Josef Albers, Hazel Larsen Archer, Josef Breitenbach, Harry Callahan, Trude Guermonprez, Robert Haas, Clemens Kalischer, Barbara Morgan, Beaumont Newhall, Nancy Newhall, Andy Oates, Robert Rauschenberg, Aaron Siskind, Cy Twombly, Stan VanDerBeek and Jonathan Williams.
The exhibition coincides with a series of workshops, talks and screenings, the details of which can be found here: http://www.blackmountaincollege.org/exhibitions/
Congratulations to STG artist Susan Weil, whose work is part of the group exhibition Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 at the UCLA Hammer Museum, which was named one of the top ten museum shows of the year in the LA orbit by art critic Christopher Knight. He writes: “For a generation of young artists flanking World War II, tiny Black Mountain College in rural North Carolina would become the prime incubator of America’s avant-garde culture.”
Veteran STG artist Susan Weil’s work is on view in Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957. The traveling exhibition debuted at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art before moving to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Its final stop is the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, Columbus. This is the first comprehensive museum show to focus on the history of the college, which became a crucial incubator for future giants of the mid-century avant-garde.