Susan Ossman
Just Out:
"Invitation," Experimental Encounters in Pandemic Times,Visual Ethnography,
VOLUME XIII | No 2 | 2024
dx.doi.org/10.12835/ve2024.2-157
Moving, vibrant, and visionary,
Susan Ossman’s States of Exception, at Cal State LA’s Ronald H. Silverman Gallery, serves as both a recent retrospective of the artist’s work, and as a poignant and prescient reminder of the varied circumstances and situations that affect not just our personal lives but all human life.
-Genie Davis, Diversions LA
Just Completed
Upcoming
Los Angeles
WINDSWEPT
Reception: March 21, 2025 5-10 p.m.
Artist’s Talk: March 30, 2025 3-5 p.m.
Curatorial Walk Through: April 17, 2025 5-8 p.m.
Wonzimer Gallery, 341-B S Avenue 17, Los Angeles, CA
Windswept, opening March 21st in Los Angeles, is an immersive group exhibition featuring over 15 painted works from throughout international artist Susan Ossman’s career in conjunction with sculptural, photographic, collage, video, and installation works by artists including Dani Dodge, Angelica Sotiriou, Beth Elliott, Linda Sue Price, Snezana Saraswati Petrovic, Diane Cockerill, Bruce Cockerill, Scott Meskill, Eileen Oda, Jason Jenn, Nancy Kay Turner, David Isakson, and Nancy Voegeli-Curan.
Curated by Genie Davis
Abu Dhabi
Gather Wood, Gather Words
Ram Nataranjan, Susan Ossman, Kim Robertson, Andreas Valentine
Opening: April 16, 6pm
Symposium: April 19, 2-5pm
Rizq Art initiative,
Abu Dhabi, Leaf Building, Reem Island
“Gather Wood, Gather Words’ is the fruit of collaboration focused on the action of gathering to study human rapports to one another and the Earth. Prefacing concepts or topics with an attention to movement, the artists sought to bridge divides of manual and intellectual labor, nature and culture. Their works are equally inspired by the ceaseless women gathering wood for village cookstoves or bundling rice to bring to market as by the plants they collect or the rustle of the desert winds that fertilize the Amazon with Saharan sand. Attention to bindings leads to reflections on how words gathered as law or tradition shape human fortunes and bodies as they do the natural world.
Curated by Meena Vari
Assistant Curator: Malavika S.
© 2020 by Susan Ossman