Opening: Saturday, November 13, 2-5 PM
A. Eric Arctander Gallery
Belle Levine Art Center,
521 Kennicut Hill Road,
Mahopac, New York.
Sue in her own words:
STYLE DEVELOPMENT Beginning roughly 1985
I am grateful to PAC for this opportunity to exhibit these works that represent over 35 years in the development of my style of painting. During my 20 years as porcelain restorer, (1980-2000), I worked on hundreds of Asian porcelain artifacts from Ming vases to lowly English market knock-off teacups. Many of these were decorated with cloud motif vectors.
I studied them thoughtfully. To affect the restorations, I would have to expertly match and reproduce them. In so doing, they became ingrained in my technique, much as the glazing of porcelain became the training for my glazing successive layers of color on canvas.
In the creation of my painting style, it was the scrolling cloud vector that became the element to lend the work a curvilinear, more feminine flow that generally did not exist in the works of many cubists. The cloud vector became the grounding element of my style in which the cubist forms and refractions spin off of the curling gyres of the vector, often surreally superimposed on sky and water. Two of the elements that combine to form clouds. You will find these elements in almost every piece of my 2-dimensional work.
Sue's Bio:
Susan Zoon
Born in Passaic, New Jersey, December 1953.
My first art memory is of the impromptu mural I scrawled on
the freshly painted wall of my parent’s dining room.
My earliest influences were the technical mastery of the cubists and surrealists of the early 20th Century. In 1971, studying at Instituto Allende, San Mieguel De Allende, Mexico, I was influenced by the style and political commitment of Diego Rivera. It was there, the seeds of my painting style were sown.
From 1973-1975 I broadened my design horizons as costume and set designer for All Arts, a New Jersey repertory opera company, followed by three years (1976-1979) as principal costume designer for the Philadelphia Civic Ballet. In 1978, I opened my antique china and porcelain restoration business, becoming nationally recognized as one of the premier experts in the country and became influenced by the cloud vector motif in Asian art.
In 1980 I began to explore a painting style of my own invention. Experimentation with content, color, and glazing, evolved the style. To date over 100 paintings have been purchased by collectors.
During the 1990’s I collaborated on many beautiful murals with artist Tom Boyer of Painted Finishes Design. The ninety’s also saw the birth of a new passion, writing Horror Fiction. In 1997 I published an illustrated novel VAMPIRE LOVER online at WritersHood.com, a monthly internet fiction magazine where I served ten years as Horror Page Editor, selecting content, contributing monthly columns, and writing book reviews.
VAMPIRE LOVER was released in trade paperback by PortTown Publishing in December 2004. My short story DEAD FUNNY was featured in DEATH GRIP 3; IT CAME FROM THE CINEMA, an anthology published January 2005. My second book with Port Town, the illustrated anthology POST CRYPT, was released in August 2006.
I am currently working on new writing projects, and continuing to paint and explore new avenues, including sculpture and found object art.
MISSION STATEMENT
Strive*Stimulate*Satisfy on Substance and Intellect in Art.
2021 RETROSPECTACLE
Putnam Arts Council Invitational
A. Eric Arctander Gallery
Belle Levine Art Center
Mahopac, NY
2019 Selected Works by Susan Zoon
Offerings Gallery
Katonah, NY
2017 Whoopee III
Studio 4 Peekskill, NY
Artist in residence Studio Around The Corner, Brewster, NY
Elected- Chairman Board of Directors Putnam Arts Council
2015 Whoopee II
Whoopee We’re All Gonna Die
TOSCAC- Studio Around The Corner, Brewster, NY
2014 Reality Check- the 6th Extinction Series with artist James B. Sparks
A. ERIC ARCTANDER GALLERY
Putnam Arts Council, Belle Levine Art Center
Mahopac, NY
2012 Masked and Unmasked with Photographer Frank Gimpaya
LOOK/ ART GALLERY
Mahopac, NY
Co-Founder of the LOOK/ ART GALLERY
With- Christopher Staples
LOOK/ ART GALLERY- Media Director
Elected- Secretary Board of Directors Putnam Arts Council
2010 Whoopee We’re All Gonna Die I
Celebrating The Mexican Day of The Dead with artist Nicholas DeJesus
The School House Gallery
Croton Falls, NY
The Long Goodbye- Environmental Series
A.R.T.S. Gallery
Croton Falls, NY
Joined Board of Directors of the Putnam Arts Council
2008 Collaborative Concepts Invitational Exhibit
Hat Factory, Peekskill, NY
2007 THE ART OF FICTION - featuring art from my Illustrated books VAMPIRE LOVER and POST CRYPT.
Show at the Belle Levine Arts Center of The Putnam Arts Council
2006 Inducted into Wallington High School Academic Hall of Fame
Second Place Award, PUTNAM ARTS COUNCIL 44
th Annual Juried
Fine Arts Show
POST CRYPT- Illustrated horror short story anthology
published by PortTown Publishing.
LBI RHAPSODY- Paintings of the Island by sixty Contemporary Artists
*Coffee table book*
GOODBYE SEPTEMBER, page 84
Published by Jersey Shore Publications
2005 DEATH GRIP 3: IT CAME FROM THE CINEMA- horror anthology from Hellbound Books.
Contributed the forward, short story and illustration:
DEAD FUNNY
2004 VAMPIRE LOVER illustrated novel, published by PortTown Publishing.
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Published in Post Mortem Magazine issue #2
short story: “The Talented Pinkie”
Group Show by BCL (Brush Chisel & Lens), Yonkers Library Gallery
MOSTLY PORTRAITS
One- woman show at Somers Library Gallery,
PUTNAM ARTS COUNCIL 41st Annual Members Show:
Best in Show “Little Foxes”
Selected artist PUTNAM ARTS COUNCIL
Conversations: Art Expressing Interactions
2001 Nouveau Magazine annual Arts Issue, Featured Artist
Relocated from Bucks County, PA to Carmel, NY
2000 Painting, “King of Hearts”, portrait of President William Jefferson Clinton is
acquired for the Whitehouse Collection of The President and Mrs. Clinton
NOVA Galaxy 2000, juried invitational art exhibition
Best Painting, “Liberty 2000”
1999 Contents Under Pressure
River Run Gallery, Lambertville, New Jersey
1997 Joined staff of web-magazine, THE WRITER’S HOOD, as Horror Page Editor.
Contribute monthly column and book reviews. Edit and select content from
works submitted for publication. (served ten years)
Talent In Motion Magazine Summer 1997, published chapter of
VAMPIRE LOVER.
Exhibition -Art Gallery at Summit Bank Corporate Headquarters, Princeton, NJ
Paintings and pictorial history of Mural Work with mural partner, artist Tom Boyer.
(Liberty at the Abyss- acquired for their board room.)
Portraiture Exhibit, Leleu Gallery, Doylestown, PA
Joined Board of Director’s of Barnegat Alliance For The Arts, Barnegat, NJ. (4yrs)
Created Mural as donation to LIBERTAE,
Women’s residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Bensalem, Pa.*
1996 Woman of the Year Award, Neshaminy Chapter. Pennsylvania Federation of Business and Professional Women.
The Night Gallery. Le Bar Bat, New York, NY
Exhibition of paintings from VAMPIRE LOVER
first public reading from the book.
Talent In Motion Magazine Premier issue
Feature article with photo of VAMPIRE LOVER book jacket in
1995 “Transformations: Four Bucks County Artists”
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA.
1994 Inaugural exhibit.
Wave Gallery, Beach Haven, New Jersey
Bucks County Artists: A cross Section.
Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College.
New Hope Arts Commission Jury Show
Designed cover art for Pennsylvania State Dept. of Health, Drug and Alcohol Program, Women’s Publication. *
“Body Tyranny” Performance Art Lecture:
Original program developed to teach women about the internal oppression of women as perpetrated by the mass
media and beauty industries:
- Northeast Philadelphia Chapter N.O.W.
- Older Women’s League Conference, Bucks County Community College.
- Temple Beth El Sisterhood, Levittown, PA
Elected to Board Of Directors of the Bucks County Women’s Fund
(served full six year term)
1993 Phillips Mill Annual Exhibition, New Hope, PA.
Walter E. Martin Award, “The Ladies Club”.
Designed support materials for Libertae Conference on Women and Addiction. *
Designed cover and interior art for 1993 and 1994 Lavender Pages, service directory for the greater Philadelphia
LGBT community. *
1992 The Leadership Thing
One Woman Show, paintings with a political theme.
Now Voyager Gallery, New Hope, PA.
Radio interview on “Performance” with Denise Collins,
New Jersey Public Radio.
Nominated by Bucks County N.O.W. for Woman of the Year,
Women’s History Week.
1991 Group Show
Now Voyager Gallery, New Hope, PA.
1990 Phillips Mill Annual Exhibition
Frank T. McClintock Award, “Dancing in the Dark”.
New Hope, PA.
Art For Thought
One Woman Show, 4 Corners Gallery, Lambertville, NJ.
Featured artist on “Art Beat”, Suburban Cable TV
Doylestown, PA.
Founded Artists for Choice Today (A.C.T.)
(Ad-hoc committee of women artists to provide support materials for demonstrations and rallies.)
Hosted
Artists for Choice Art Auction. Solicited 30 regional artists’
donations to benefit Bucks County N.O.W.
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A.C.T.- N.O.W. to support personal Liberty.”
1989 Doylestown Art League Exhibition, James A. Michener Art Center,
Rudolph Forst Award - “Tea For One”.
Doylestown, PA.
One-woman show, 4 Corners Gallery, Lambertville, PA.
Featured artist, “Art Beat”, Suburban Cable TV,
Doylestown, PA.
Designed logo Bucks County Pro-Choice Coalition. *
* All services donated.
