Susan Jennings is an artist who works across several media including painting, sculpture, video, sound and music. Her sound sculptures and paintings are at the intersection of art and sound/music and are performed as instruments.
Jennings has exhibited her work nationally and internationally both as an individual artist and with a collaborative multi-media duo called Black Lake. She is the recipient of awards including The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and Giverny Foundation Fellowship and Residency at the Musée Claude Monet in Giverny, France, a fellowship at the MacDowell Art Colony, several residencies at DNA in Provincetown and a studio residency at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts from 2004-2012.
Recent solo exhibitions by Jennings include “Duet” at Unrequited Leisure in Nashville, TN during November and December 2023, “Mind Sounds” at Tanja Grunert Gallery in Hudson, NY during August and September 2022, “See It Swimming: Sound Sculptures and Paintings by Susan Jennings” guest curated by Michele Thursz at HiLo Art in Catskill, NY during April of 2021. Her work was also featured at The Tang Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga, NY during March 2021 as part of “Shake the Trees,” a collaborative project with Nicole Cherubini curated by Ian Berry in which guest artists are invited to participate over a 2-year period. The Tang Museum produced a video, viewable here, of Jennings’ sound sculptures performed by Silver the Void with guest harpist Malachi Cherubini Purcell. A solo exhibition of her work titled “To Be the Waves and the Ocean” was presented by Tanja Grunert Salon, Princess Beatrix House in Hudson, NY during August and September of 2021. Tanja Grunert Gallery presented a sound sculpture by Jennings at NADA Foreland in Catskill, NY in July, 2023. Jennings’ work was also recently on view in “The Hills Have Eyes” at LABspace in Hillsdale, NY, MASS MOMA at Turnspace Art Center in West Stockbridge, MA, “Perceptual Fields” at The Frank Institute in Linlithgo, NY and “Going Outside” at Hudson Sculpture Space in Hudson, NY and “Joy Ride Hits the Road at The Bank Art Center in Newburgh, NY. Jennings was an artist in residence at DNA Residency in Provincetown. During the summer of 2019, Jennings had residencies with open studios at The Yellow Round in Claverack, NY and at LABspace in Hillsdale, NY.
Other solo exhibitions have been at venues such as Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NYC NY, White Columns, NYC, NY, g-module, Paris, France and a shipping container at the DIVA Art Fair at Miami-Basel. Her work has been included in group shows in NYC venues such as Salon 94, White Columns, Pace Gallery, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, Baumgartner Gallery, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Sotheby’s, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, and more. Jennings has also exhibited at NADA Art Fair several times. Jennings has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Modern Painters and Time Out. Jennings’ work has received acclaim by critics such as Holland Cotter, Ken Johnson and Andrea Scott. A graduate of Yale University and Hunter College. Jennings’ work is in the collections of Howard Stein, NYC, NY, Adam Lewis, Aspen, CO, The Cosmopolitan Hotel of Las Vegas and many private collections.
Beginning in 2009, Susan Jennings began a multi-media art and sound/music collaboration with Slink Moss under the name Black Lake, @blacklakeart. Together they produced over 30 multi-media art installations with projected video art, collaborative paintings, hanging sculpture/instruments, live original music and spoken word performances. Black Lake has installed their multimedia art and performed in art venues such as The RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI, Freight+Volume Gallery, NYC, NY, Artist Run at The Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL, The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, CR10, Linlithgo, NY, Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC, NY, Incident Report, Hudson, NY, DNA, Provincetown, MA, The Anthony Giordano Gallery at Dowling College, Oakdale, NY, David Nolan Gallery, NYC, NY, X-Initiative, NYC, NY, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC, NY and The Wooly, NYC, NY (hosted by Invisible-Exports and BOMB Magazine.)
Black Lake sound art is featured on the soundtrack of Pip Chodorovʼs documentary film “Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film” which won a public choice award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2011. The duo released a vinyl single and 4 albums. Among some of the most memorable performances are Satellite Art Fair at SXSW in Austin, TX 2019 and Artist Run in 2015 during the Miami Basel Art Fair.
Black Lake attended residencies during the summers of 2012, 2013, 2017 and 2020 and 2021 at DNA in Provincetown, MA. Black Lake had several work-on-paper residencies in 2017 and 2018 at LABspace in Hillsdale, NY and the duo was awarded a 2014 Taconic Foundation Artistʼs Resource Grant.
In October of 2021 Black Lake released an album of songs recorded at Stone Studio, most of which were written during the pandemic. “Silver Sky” was released on The New Reality Records label and can be found here
Other Black Lake music releases are available here.
Black Lake’s website is here.
Jennings collaborates with Little Onion contributing sounds generated by her sculpture under the name Seven Woods and released on New Reality Records. Their instrumental music can be heard here.
Jennings has also been performing and recording music using her sound paintings and sculptures as well as guitar, drums and bass under the name Silver the Void with the painter Alexander Ross and Faye Ross and various guest musicians.
SUSAN JENNINGS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“Duet”, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN, November-December, 2023
“Mind Sounds",” Tanja Grunert Gallery, Hudson, NY, August-September, 2022
“See It Swimming: Sound Sculptures and Paintings”, guest curated by Michele Thursz, HiLo Art, Catskill, NY, January-March, 2021
“To Be the Waves and the Ocean,” Tanja Grunert Salon, Princess Beatrix House, Hudson, NY, July-August, 2020
“Sound Paintings and Sound Sculptures.” The Yellow Round, Claverack, NY, September, 2019
“Percussion,” LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, April, 2019
“Gray Rainbow” curated by Stephen Lamia, The Anthony Giordano Gallery at Dowling College, Oakdale, NY, September-October 2011, accompanying catalogue
“Bolt” g-module at DIVA, Miami, FL, December 2006
“Near As Grass” g-module, Paris, France, September, 2006
“Strange Liberty”, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY, NY, March 2006
“Poussierere et Partitions”, Galerie de L’Ancien College, Chatellerault, France, January, 2005 (two person show with Cécile Pitois)
“Particles” g-module, Paris, France, December, 2002“
White Room”, White Columns, New York, NY, October, 2000
"Breath", East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA, August, 1997
“New Work", Kir Priore Galleries, Hartford, CT, February, 1997
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GROUP EXHIBITION
“Holiday,” LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, November - December, 2023
“Joy Ride Hits the Road”, curated by Dechiara Projects, Savaggi Gallery at The Bank Art Center, Newburgh, NY, September-December, 2023
“Are We Home Yet?”, Artport, Kingston, NY, October-December, 2023
“Group Show,” curated by Mark Colyer, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, July-Augst, 2023
“NADA Foreland,” presented by tANJA gRUNERT Gallery, Catskill, NY, July 2023
“Tonal Odes,” curated by Cotter Luppi, Philmont Studio, Philmont, NY, July 2023
“The Hills Have Eyes”, curated by Ellen Letcher and Julie Torres, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, July, 2023
“Going Outside,” curated by Dan Devine, Hudson Sculpture Space, Hudson, NY, June-September, 2023
“MASS MOMA,” curated by Ellen Letcher and Julie Torres, Turnpark, West Stockbridge, MA, April 2023
“Holiday,” LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, November - December, 2022
“The Divine Sculpture,” Tanja Grunert Gallery, Hudson, NY, June -October, 2022
“Potential Fields,” curated by Francine Hunter McGivern, The Frank Institure, Linlithgo, NY, July-August, 2022
“Mountain High Valley Low: Artists of the Hudson Valley,” curated by Ellen Letcher and Julie Torres, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, June-July, 2022
“Wallpower,” tANJA gRUNERT Salon, Princess Beatrix House, Hudson, NY, May, 2021
“Shake the Trees” - a collaboration with Nicole Cherubini curated by Ian Berry at The Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga, NY, January - March, 2021
“With The Grain,” organized by Patricia Fabricant, Equity Gallery, NY, NY, November, 2021
“Altered Presence”, curated by Laurie De Chiari, Artport KIngston, Kingston, NY, September, 2020
SpaceLAB”, curated by Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher, Collarworks, Troy, NY, September-October 2020
”Artstream”, curated by Laurie De Chiara Artport Kingston, Kingston, NY, June 2020, ongoing
Together in Isolation” curated by Henry Klimowicz, The Re-Institute, Millerton, NY outdoors and ongoing since May, 2020
“Ripple Effect", curated by Laurie De Chiara, Artport Kingston, Kingston, NY, June-September 2020
"Mother Altar by Chie Fueki", Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY, June-September 2020
"If You Like This You'll Love That ", Collarworks, Troy, NY, June 2020 (online)
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“Collision,” curated by Jackie Saccoccio, The RISD Art Museum, Provindence, RI, October 2010-June 2011
“Latatara”, with Black Lake performance, Estonia House, NY, NY March, 2010
“H2O: Film on Water”, curated by Cynthia Reeves, BrattleboroMuseum, VT, Great River Arts Institute, Bellows Falls, VT and Spheris Gallery, Hanover, NH, Aug. – November, 2009
“Blue Balls,” curated by Jackie Saccoccio, APF Lab, NY, NY, Dec.2008
“Treemendous,” curated by Karen Shaw, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY,Dec 2008
“Biography of a Traveler”, curated by Dores Sacquegna, Primo Piano Livingallery, Lecce, Italy, May – June 2008
“g-salon exposition de groupe”, g-module, Paris, France, March-June 2008
“Selections from the Cultural Corridor”, curated by Peter Dudek, Storefront Artists Project, Pittsfield, MA, July 2007
“Horizon“, curated by David Humphrey, EFA Gallery, NY, NY, June2007
“A Rabbit As King of the Ghosts”, Mitchell-Innes and Nash, curated by Justine Kurland and Daniel Torop, June 2006
“Are We Here Yet”, a video and dance collaboration with choreographer Kate Gyllenhaal and her company, MoCo, presented at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, NY, NY, March 2005 and again at Jacob’s Pillow, Beckett, MA, July, 2005
“Lanterna Magica”, curated by Jen Moller, Provincetown Art Association Museum, Provincetown, MA, January 2005
“Happy Birthday to Me”, g-module, Paris, France, January 2005
“Grass and Honey”, curated by David Shaw, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, May, 2004
“Gallery Group”, g-module, Paris, France, May 2004
“Stay Tuned: Hypnotice Videos by Contemporary Artists”, The Studio: An Alternative Space for Contemporary Art, Armonk, NY, curated by Marcy B. Freeman, May, 2004
“Colored Pencil”, KS Art, NY, NY, April 2004
“Weather :Standard Projection V”, Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Yvonne Force Villareal, February – May, 2004
“Imaging the River”, Hudson River Museum, October, 2003“Giverny”, Salon 94, NY, NY, July, 2003
"Ball Point: Inklings", KS Art, NY, NY, April, 2003
"Linger", Artemis, Greenberg, Van Doren, NY, NY, June, 2002
"Ball Point: Inklings", Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, June 2002
”Fundamentals”, Eyre Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA, December 2001
“Embracing Science”, (three person), Eyre Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA,October 2001
“The Standard Model: (Game Face)”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, August, 2000
“Unconscious Documentaries”, curated by Paul Ha,Von Lintel andNusser, New York, NY June, 2000
“New Photographs”, curated by Samantha Christie, Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY, June, 2000
“Garden Party”, curated by Laurie Simmons, n.e.g., Milan, Italy, March, 2000
“Calendar 2000”, a benefit exhibition curated by Amada Cruz and Eileen Cohen, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY, September, 1999
“MOCA Los Angeles' 20th Anniversary Benefit Photography Portfolio Exhibition”, curated by Cindy Sherman, Los Angeles, CA, May, 1999
“A Room With A View”, curated by Mike Weiss, Sixth@Prince, NY, NY, May, 1999
“New American Talent”, juried by Amada Cruz, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX, Traveling from Spring 1999 through 2000
“The Choice”, selected by Cindy Sherman, Exit Art, NY, NY, November, 1998
“Un Ltd.”, curated by Waqas Wajahat, DAC, Brooklyn, NY, October, 1998
"Declassified", Parson's School of Design, New York, NY, April, 1998
“Blind Faith”, curated by Paul Ha, White Columns, New York, NY, December, 1997
"Domestic Bliss", DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, October, 1997
"Group Show", Kir Priore Galleries, Hartford, CT, December, 1996
"Emerging Talent", curated by Michael Carroll, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, June 1996
"Techno-Bunny, Art and Technology", curated by Flash light, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY, 1996
“Oooze” , curated by Annie Herron, Black and Herron Gallery, NY, NY,1996
"Group Show", DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, October, 1995
"Other Rooms", Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY, June 1995
"Sauce VIII", Sauce, Williamsburg, NY, November, 1994
"Domestic Icons", curated by B. Pearlman, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, September, 1992
“Toll Free: International Artists Respond to German Reunification,” Stadtlengsfeld, Germany, August, 1992
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SELECTED REVIEWS
Baumgartner, Julie “I Haven’t Felt This Optimistic for Quite Some Time: Galleries Are Fleeing Manhattan for Upstate New York. Is It for Good?”, Artnet.com, August 28, 2020
Cirauqui, Manuel, "Susan Jennings", LAPIZ, n°226, October 2006, p 91 image
Cotter, Holland, New York Times, “Innovators Burst Onstage One (Ka- pow!) at a Time”, November 10, 2000, pp. 31, 34.
Cotter, Holland, New York Times, "Art in Review: 'Blind Faith'", January9, 1998, p. 38
Cohen, David. The New York Sun, “Arts and Letters Gallery Going”, July 17, 2003, p. 14, 3 images
Cruz, Amada, Texas Fine Art Association, New American Talent 13 Catalogue,Spring , 2000, images.
Dubois, Jean-Marie, Susan Jennings, Paris Capitale, Expos galleries, n°117, October, p.134. image
Dubois, Jean-Marie, Susan Jennings, Paris Capitale, Expos Reviews,n°116, September, p.134. imag
Fahey, Anna, Seattle Times, “Gallery Du Jour”, October 18, 2001, image
Figwer , Caroline, Agenda, Expos en vues, "Susan Jennings Near asGrass", CIMAISE magazine, Sept.-Oct.-Nov., n°283, p 77, image
Hammons, David, Gathering of the Tribes, Issue #9, Fall, 2000, p.28,image
Hasagawa-Overacker, Paul, Gallery Beat TV, aired on channel 34,November, 2000
Howe, Marie, Provincetown Arts, "The Heart's Truth: the Art of Susan Jennings and Tabitha Vevers, Annual Issue, 1997, p. 83-84 image
Isaacs, John, IMBY.com, “Art and About: With All the Bells and Whistles”, August 1, 2020
Josslin, Victoria, Seattle Post Intelligencer, “Natures Inner WorkingsInspire Pair of Exhibits”, October 19, 2001, p. 23, image
Maniaci, Cara, New York Arts Magazine, "Exit Art, The Choice", Issue#27, December, 1998, p. 25 image
Maitinsky, Jean-Paul, Sotheby’s Preview, “Expert Eye”, December, 2003,p. 26, image
Meckseper, Josephine, Fat "On Fire", "Art Cultures by Susan Jenningsnwith the Tom Jessell Lab", Issue No. 3, 1997, p. 8. image
Neil, JonathanT.D., Modern Painter, “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts,”September, 2006, p. 101, image
Olearek, David, The Advocate, Provincetown, MA "Boxes", June 5, 1997,p. 25
Reed, John, Time Out New York, “Reviews”, July 24-31, 2003
Rose, Matthew, L'Art Aujourd'hui, No 18, Semaine du 17 au 23 Janvier, 2003, p.22
Rosoff, Pat, Hartford Advocate, "One Artist Breaks New Ground, The Other Doesn't”, February 18, 1997
Saltz, Jerry, Artnet.com, Top 10 of 2008 (mention of Blue Balls, curated by Jackie Saccoccio ,) Dec. 2008
Shankar, Ravi, Drunken Boat, http://www.drunkenboat.com, Issue 3,Fall/Winter 2001-2002, image
Zimmer, William, The New York Times, “Art Review”, Sunday, December 19, 2003, p.9
Zimmer, William, The New York Times, “Art Induced Hypnosis”, Sunday, May 23, 2003, p. 8
Antiques and Arts Weekly, “’Imaging the River’ Opens October 4 at The Hudson River Museum”, October 3, 2003, p. 15
Half Moon Press, “’Imaging the River’ at the Hudson River Museum”, October 2003, p.4
Time Out New York, “Review December 11-18, 1997
”Time Out New York, “Review March 23-29,, 2006”, star
Time Out New York, “Review March 30-April 5, 2006” , star
Time Out New York, “Review April 6-12, 2006, star
Time Out New York, “Review April 13-19, 2006”, star
New York Magazine, “Art Review”, July 28, 2003
New York Magazine, “Art Review, December 15, 1997
New Yorker, "Review", Blind Faith, December, 1996
New Yorker, “Review " Unconscious Documentaries, July 17, 2000
New Yorker, "Review", Linger, June , 2002
New Yorker, “Review”, Tatiana Trouvé /Susan Jennings, April 17, 2006V Magazine, “Exposure”, Issue 15, January/February, 2000, photo
Village Voice, “Voice Choice”, December 16, 1997
Wagner, James, jameswagner.com, “From Chelsea to Williamsburg,”June 21, 2004
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AWARDS/HONORS
DNA Residency, Provincetown, MA, October, 2020
The Yellow Round Residency, Claverack, NY, 2019
Fellowship and Residency at the Musée Claude Monet in Giverny, France, 2000
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, 1999
Texas Fine Art Association Juror’s Merit Award from Amada Cruz for work included in a traveling exhibition, 1998
MacDowell Art Colony Residency, Petersborough, New Hampshire, 1998
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EDUCATION
MFA, Hunter College, NY, NY
BA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
BLACK LAKE: A COLLABORATIVE ART AND MUSIC PROJECT WITH SUSAN JENNINGS AND SLINK MOSS, 2009-Present
BLACK LAKE SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“It All Starts In The Mind Growing Like a Diamond,” Readywipe Gallery, Holyoke, MA, 2018
“Echo,” CR10, Linlithgo, NY, August, 2016
“Night Sounds," + Space, Catskill, NY, October 2015
“Falling Awake,” LABspace, Great Barrington, MA, March 2015
“Darkest Light,” Incident Report, Incident #76, Hudson, NY, December 2014
“Bloom.” (hi)story labor(atory), Hudson, NY, June-July 2011
BLACK LAKE GROUP EXHIBITIONS
"We Are Lightforms,” Lightforms Art Center, Hudson, NY, July-August 2022
“Among Friends 3,” curated by Beth Dary, Patricia Fabricant and Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Equity Gallery, NY, NY, May, 2022
““Involuntary Mexico,” Hildago Station, Mexico City, 2020 ongoingp
“Limbic Songs", curated by Cotter Luppi, Real Eyes Gallery, Adams, MA, May 2019
“Tickle the Atman”, The Re Institute, Millerton, NY, 2018
“Among Friends 2,” curated by Beth Dary, Patricia Fabricant and Alexandra Rutsch, Dumbo Open Studios, Brooklyn, 2018
“Solace: Artists Who Turn Inward Especially During Times of Turmoil To Find and Inspire Calm”, 526 West 26th, NY, NY, November-December, 2017
“Ultra Pro: Sculptures That Cook”, Curated by Michael Tong, Art Omi, October, 2017
“Life’s Rich Pageant”, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2017
“DNA 2017 Residency Show, DNA, Provincetown, MA, 2017
“Music Seen”, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, August, 2017
“+1+1 Of An Urban Nature”, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY, November, 2016
“Campsite: Hudson Valley Artists 2016,” curated by Corinna Schaming, The Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, July-November, 2016
“+1+1”, MADE LABspace at Artist Run Satellite Art Fair during Miami Art Fair Week, December, 2015
“The Egg,” LABspace, Great Barrington, MA, August, 2014
"What's the Story,” Freight+Volume, NY, NY, January, 2012
“X-tra,” Leslie Heller Gallery, NY, NY, January, 2013
“Flutter,” Freight+Volume, NY, NY, January, 2012 (one night installation and performance)
“Snow,” Freight+Volume, NY, NY, January, 2011 (one night installation and performance)
“THING,” West Cornwall, CT, June, 2012
BLACK LAKE SELECTED LIVE PERFORMANCES
“The Lightness of Winter” Record Re-release of <Shake on New Reality Records, Lightforms Art Center, Hudson, NY in conjunction with Slink Moss’ art exhibit of the same title, March, 2022
Silver Sky,” Foundry, West Stockbridge, MA, February 2022
“Silver Sky” Record Release Event with Mark Safan and Adam Snyder, The Avalon Lounge, Catskill, NY, October, 2022
“Solstice: A Multi-site Plein Air Performance” Turnpark, West Stockbridge, MA, March, 2021
“Tree” Record Release, The Egremont Barn, Egremont, MA, August, 2019
“Butterfly.” Satellite Art Fair at SXSW, Austin, TX, March, 2019
“Tickle the Atman” The Re-Institute, Millerton, NY, August 2018
“True Blue,” Jack Shainman Gallery: The School, Kinderhook, NY, September, 2018
“Supertone Festival,” Hillsdale, NY, July, 2018
“It All Starts In the Mind Growing Like a Diamond”, Readywipe Gallery, Holyoke, MA, February, 2018
“Art Salon”, Readywipe Gallery, March, 2018
“Women’s March”, Basilica, Hudson, NY, January, 2018
“Flutter”, Ör Gallery and Tavern, Hudson, NY, December 2017 (one performance of a 4 week residency)
“Music Seen”, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, August, 2017
“Supertone Festival”, Hillsdale, NY, August, 2017
“Ultra Pro: Sculptures That Cook”, Curated by Michael Tong, Art Omi, October, 2017
“Black Lake”, Down County Social Club, Sheffield, MA, July, 2017
“Echo,” Two performances at CR10, Linlithgo, NY, August, 2016
“Campsite: Hudson Valley Artists 2016,” curated by Corinna Schaming, The Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz,NY, July and August, 2016
“Gray Cloud” A three performance residency at ör gallery and tavern, Hudson, NY, April, May, June, 2016
“Spring for Sound”, Music Festival, Millerton, NY, June, 2016
“Live Live” Two performances at Artist Run at Miami Basel Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL, December 2015
"Live Life," + Space, Catskill, NY, Broadcast live on WGXC, November, 2015
"CCCA Artswalk," Warehouse, Hudson, NY, September, 2015
"Living Room Theater," alleyway in Great Barrington, MA, August, 2015
"Other Music Audio Buffet," a 32 channel live mixing session (mixinReg board donated by Pauline Oliveros) at Wave Farm Broadcast live by WGXC, Acra, NY
"Potential Fields," curated by Francine Hunter McIver, Claremont, NY, September, 2015
“Darkest Light,” Incident Report, Hudson, NY, 3 performances live and Ustreamed, December 2014-January, 2015
“Auroras Dance,” Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY, December, 2014
“Art LAB,” IS 183, Stockbridge, MA, June, 2014
“Recital,” LABspace, Great Barrington, MA, June, 2014
“Solar Power,” Freight+Volume, NY, NY, June, 2014
“Snow.” Fahrenheit 451, KaBoom, Catskill, NY, January, 2014
"On the Fence,” Ursa Major, Great Barrington, MA, July, 2013
"Bridge Dream" at “X-tra,” Leslie Heller Gallery, NY, NY, January, 2013
“Free Radicals,” Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY, August 2012
“THING,” West Cornwall, CT, July, 2012
“DNA Gallery Residency Performance,” July, 2012
Derek Eller Gallery, with The Hillfillies, June, 2012
“Flutter,” Freight+Volume, NY, NY,April, 2012
"Dawning" at "What's the Story,” Freight+Volume, NY, NY, January, 2012
“Shake Release,” The Wooley, hosted by BOMB Magazine and Invisible-Exports Gallery, NY, NY,October, 2011
“Gray Rainbow” The Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY, September, 2011
(hi)story labor(atory), Hudson, NY, June, 2011
David Nolan Gallery, NY, NY, May, 2011
Wesleyan College, Middletown, NY, April, 2011
The Tank, NY, NY, April, 2011
Freight+Volume, NY, NY, February, 2011
Club Helsinki, Hudson, NY, December, 2010
Salon Naturenoir, NY, NY, December, 2010
Canal Loftworks, NY, NY, December, 2010
“Collision,” curated by Jackie Saccoccio, The RiSD Art Museum, Providence, RI November, 2010
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, July, 2010
Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, July, 2010
Junto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, April, 2010
Spotty Dog, Hudson, NY, April ,2010
The Warehouse, Austin, TX, March, 2010
X-Initiative, NY, NY, February, 2010
EFA Gallery, NY, NY, January, 2010
“Toasting the Treesʼ” Gavroche, NY, NY, October, 2009
H20: Film on Water, curated by Cynthia Reeves, Mill Gallery, Hanover, NH, August, 2009
BLACK LAKE SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
Brody, David. ”4-Song 45 RPM record Black Lake,” Bomb Magazine, Issue 117, Fall 2011, Editorʼs Choice
Butler, Sharon. “Outside the City: Great Barrington,” Two Coats of Paint, (blog) August 27, 2014
Dona, Lydia. ”Transparent and Opaque:On Black Lake,” BOMBlog, September, 2011, Music
Lambe, Claire, “Campsite Hudson Valley 2016 at the Dorsky,” Rollmagazing.com, June, 2016
Lamia, Stephen, (essay) “Gray Rainbow” a brochure published by Dowling College, Oakdale, NY, 2011
Marsh, Joshua, “Tickle the Atman at The Re Institute” IMBY, September, 2018
Publication Studio', "Incident Report", September, 2017
Walker, Guy, “Black Lake New Album “Tree” Cited as part of the “New Hudson River School” IMBY, September, 2018
BLACK LAKE AWARDS/HONORS
DNA Gallery Residency (*and Performance,)*July 2012, *July 2013, July 2017, October 2020, June 2021
LABspace Residency, Hillsdale, NY, 2017, 2018
Artist Resource Grant, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, 2014
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Horizon Line
Curated by David Humphrey and Susan Jennings, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
Featured Artists: Joshua Abelow, Reed Anderson, Susannah Auferoth, Ray Barsante, Lisa Beck, Jackie “Blackhores Tointigh, Jesse Bransford, Franchell Mack Brown, Janice Caswell, Nurya Chana, Nicole Cherubini, Sam Cockrell, Jennifer Coates, Mark Colyer, Chalet Comellas, Carl D’Alvia, Beth Dary, Dan Devine, Katharine Dufault, Fabienne Lasserre, Travis Fairclough, Calvin Kim, Maggie Mailer, Ieva Mediodia, Victoria Antoinette Megans, Jason Middlebrook, Donna Moylan, Keisha Pri0leau- Martin, Alexander Ross, Lydia Rubio, Mark Safan, Clint Sleeper, Elisa Solivan, Lawre Stone, Sagarika Sundaram, Michael Tong
Horizon Line is a mad kumbaya of heterogeneous togetherness with 38 artworks abutting one another and joined by the line that each contains transforming the gallery itself into a joyful surprising landscape
Blossom Return
Curated by Susan Jennings June 25, 2021 - July 25, 2021 Artport Kingston
Kingston, NY
Featured Artists Kwadwo Adae, Betsy Friedman, Sara Jessie Kane, Slink Moss, Katy Schneider, Laura Stein, Rachel Urkowitz and Guy Walker
“Blossom Return,” organized by the artist Susan Jennings at Artport Kingston is an exhibition engaging with the fact that many of us who were fortunate enough to have had access, leaned into nature and gardens during quarantine. While the world shuttered, last summer’s bloom was particularly poignant as something consistent, healthy and healing amidst so much that was not. Nature took no pause in her march of creation. This summer the blossom return greets us both as it always has and also entirely anew. We have been changed by what we just collectively endured and lived in ways we yet to fully understand. For these 8 artist, the practice of blossom as muse delivers for us a powerful reminder that nature and her cycles are not part of “our environment” but are rather the driving forces of an interplaying relationship, along with us, at one with our very being.
Henry Klimowicz
Solo exhibition curated by Susan Jennings of works by Henry Klimowicz, HiLo Catskill, Catskill, NY January, 2020
Uncanny Melodies
Curated by Susan Jennings
September 27 - November 17, 2019
HiLo
Catskill, NY
Featured Artists Jessica Gaddis , Daniel Giordano, Will McLeod, Julie Torres, Henry Williams and Celeste Wilson.
Works that beat to their own drum and sing their own uncanny melodies through surprising use of materials.
Earthly Delights
Curated by Susan Jennings, Ellen Letcher and Julie Torres
July 20 - August 24, 2019
The Re-Institure
Millerton, NY
Earthly Delights, curated by Susan Jennings, Ellen Letcher and Julie Torres will present artwork of vastly varying sizes and media from 50 artists. The works will be installed directly on the gallery floor— without supports, pedestals, or work on the walls— to create an intimate and tantalizing installation without the hierarchy of placement. By exhibiting artwork on a level playing field, the curators hope to enable a grounding experience of attentive and active looking. Please join us for a stroll through this labyrinthian garden of work at equal footing.
List of artist:
Adrian Meraz, Alexander Ross, Ashley Yang-Thompson/Miss Expanding Universe, Becca Van K,Carl D’Alvia, Christina Tenaglia, Claire Sherwood, Claudia Tienan, Colin O’Con, Courtney Puckett,Courtney Tramposh ,Dan Devine,Daniella Dooling, Elisa Lendvay, Elisa Soliven, George Spencer, Gelah Penn, Guy Walker, Jeff Starr, Jess Gaddis, Joan Grubin, Katharine Umsted, KK Kozik, Laura Kaufman, Leah Guadagnoli, Linda Stillman, Madison LaVallee, Matt Frieburghaus, Meg Lipke, Michael Tong, Michelle Segre, Millicent Young, Monique Luchetti, Nicole Cherubini, Nikako Kanamoto, Nurya Chana, Stuart Farmery, Stephen Maine, Susan Meyer, Susan Scott, Tamara Zahaykevich, Terri Moore, Will Simons
Tickle the Atman
Curated by Susan Jennings
August 11 - September 8, 2018 The Re-Institute
Millerton, NY
Tickle the Atman brings together a crock pot full of what we call “artists” whose works nibble teasingly the tail of their own snake. The eyes of most of these expressions of the one look out of their heads onto their creations. The makers unscrew their own skulls and carefully put their world into their own eye sockets, hitting return to see what happens. They (the artists, the art, the snake) are the all, forgotten, divided then blurred and fused again, well past the expiration date.
Featuring painting, works on paper, construction, installation, indoor and outdoor sculpture and performance by Janice Caswell, Chie Fueki, Lydia Dona, Betsy Friedman, Black Lake, Ellen Letcher, Meg Lipke, Jon Piasecki, Elisa Soliven, Julie Torres, Guy Walker, Eric Wolf, Courtney Tramposh and Tamara Zahaykevich
Music Seen
Organized by Michele Thursz and Susan Jennings
August 19th - September 4, 2018
LABspace
Hillsdale, NY
Music Seen, An Multi-Part Exhibition and A Performance Series by Visual Artists Who Make Music Music Seen Part 1 - is the first a series of exhibitions, performances, and publications, which explore the relationship between, visual artists and music.
Part one of this series is structured as an exhibition of visual art works by the artists and two evenings of performances by the artists’ bands at LABspace. Additionally, an online listening station with the artists’ music and/or performance videos will available at http://labspaceart.blogspot.com/ as an extension of the exhibition.
SEEN plays with the terminology of a scene, a place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs. In this exhibition, we explore the intersection of the "artist" and "musician" paradigm. In 2017 the term multidisciplinary covers what in the past separated the practice of visual arti and music. Today, many visual artists refer to the production model of the music industry, regarding collaboration, creation, and alternatives to the commercial distribution model.
In Music Seen Part1, we engaged in a process similar to digging through crates of albums and uncovering a gem in seeking visual artists who are also musicians with bands. We followed strings to the unknown, the underground and even the secret places where the visual artist explores other avenues of expression through music.
MUSIC SEEN Part 1 participating artist include -
Adam Ames, Andrew Bordwin, Nurya Chana, Thomas Leo Chapman IV, Chou Wen-chung, Jennifer Coates, Steve DiBenedetto, Enid Ellen, David Humphrey, John Jackson, Inju Kaboom, Bill Komoski,Tom Kotik, Thomas Lail, Damon Locks, Reggie Madison, Paul McMahon,, Slink Moss, David Mramor, NN, Love Psychedelic Nevai, Laura Ortman, Alexander Ross, Mark Safan, Katia Santibanez, Katy Schneider, Adriane Schramm, Michelle Segre, James Siena, Jennifer Sirey, Matt Tiernan
“There’s something very attractive about just being in a space with other human beings, and there is something magical that happens with the immediacy of sound, and how it affects people”[1] In MUSIC SEEN the lights are on, and in clear sight and ear-shot these visual artist and their music is exposed as one practice. Join the scene.
Taconic North
Curated by Susan Jennings, Ellen Letcher and Julie Torres
April 15 - June 11, 2017
LABspace
Hillsdale, NY
Artists of upstate NY and The Berkshires of MA
Peter Acheson, Yura Adams, Julia Whitney Barnes, Maureen Beitler, Dawn Breeze, Karlos Carcamo, Nurya Chana, Nicole Cherubini, Leona Christie, Marieken Cochius, Matt Crane, Douglas Culhane, Carl D’Alvia, Lisa Corinne Davis, Carol Diehl, Peter Dudek, Daniella Dooling, Diane Dwyer, Susan English, Julie Evans, Sarah Falkner, Stuart Farmery, Lacey Fekishazy, Tara Fracalossi, Chris Freeman, Matt Frieburghaus, Lorrie Fredette, Alison Fox, Jeffrey Gibson, Danny Goodwin, Elliott Green, Amy Griffin, Joan Grubin, Jared Handelsman, Sean Hemmerle, Thomas Huber, Gabriel Hurier, Will Hutnick, Kylie Heidenheimer, Brece Honeycutt, Erick Johnson, Laura Kaufman, Lisa Kirk, Henry Klimowicz, Phil Knoll, Thomas Lail, Paula Lalala, Madison LaVallee, Ellen Letcher, Life After Life (Karthik Pandian and Paige K. Johnston,) Meg Lipke, Cotter Luppi, Joel Longenecker, Maggie Mailer, Jason Wolfman Martin, Susan Meyer, Ieva Medodia, Jason Middlebrook, Laura Moriarty, Portia Munson, Sue Muskat, Tom Nicol, Petra Nimtz, Kathy Osborn, Ruby Palmer, Jon Piasecki, Elisa Pritzker, Patrick Purcell, Corinna Ripps, Michael Rodriguez, Mandolyn Wilson Rosen, Alexander Ross, Peter Rudolph, Mark Safan, Jackie Saccoccio, Katia Santibanez, Sam Scoggins, Susan Scott, Michelle Segre, Nancy Shaver, Claire Sherwood, Polly Shindler, Dee Shapiro, Julie Shapiro, Zachary Skinner, Gregory Slick, Cary Smith, Monika Sosnowski, George Spencer, Michael St. John, Jeff Starr, Linda Stillman, Amy Talluto, Susie Tarnowicz, Christina Tenaglia, Claudia Tienan, Michael Tong, Katharine Umsted, Oliver Wasow, Guy Walker, Eleanor White, Sandy Winters, Ann Wolf, Eric Wolf, Geoffrey Young, Deborah Zlotsky
Bedfellows
Curated by Susan Jennings
October 15 - December 3, 2016 LABspace
Hillsdale, NY
Bedfellows is a group exhibition including works by Eric Aurandt, Dan Devine,Francine Hunter McGivern, Frau Kolb, Ola Manana, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Guy Walker and Oliver Wasow.
The show opens Saturday October 15th with a reception from 3-5pm at the gallery in Hillsdale, NY. The show continues through December 3rd with gallery hours on Saturdays from 11-5 and by appointment.
Each of these artists creates strange and compellingly unusual characters with their chosen media.
Eric Aurandt sculpts and draws lumbering men who are at once appealing and nearly grotesque. Dan Devine makes photographic portraits of sheep that he combines with a security camera creating a somewhat confrontational situation in which the viewer seems to be surveilled by the wooly animals. Francine Hunter McGivern collaborated with the photographer Kevin Higgins to create black and white photographic portraits of Hunter McGivern performing while hanging in a net body sock. Frau Kolb paints group portraits of her family members. Ola Manana paints strange and mysterious figures culled from her dreams. Cindy Sherman photographs strange beings she creates with props, Laurie Simmons sets up
doll figures in front of rear screen projections of tourist destinations around the world, Guy Walker makes plastic fresco totem figure sculptures. Oliver Wasow photographs interesting people in his life in his green screen studio and later adds landscapes as backgrounds.
Alternate Gravity
Curated by Susan Jennings
August 14 - September 18, 2016 LABspace
Hillsdale, NY
Alternate Gravity is a 3-person installation of new works by Nicole Cherubini, Meg Lipke and Patrick Purcell. The show runs from Thursday August 11th through Saturday, October 1st There will be a reception for the artists on Sunday, August 14th from 5-7pm
All the artists divide their time between Columbia County and in/near New York City and conceptually challenge notions of craft and materials and function in their work.
Chow
Curated by Susan Jennings
July 7 - August 6, 2016 LABspace
Hillsdale, NY
It is no surprise that artists are food lovers and, often, creative entertainers and chefs. Picasso and Monet were celebrated for their dinner parties full of color and flowing wines. Food and art go together like bread and chocolate, and artists who have mastered cooking are a very special breed of bon vivant.
Jennifer Coates conflates paint with cooking sauces, Carl D’Alvia makes sculpture using a pasta making machine, Steve DiBenedetto's color pencil drawing of a crouton bag references ingredients used in the kitchen, Mike Geno exquisitely paints cheeses with oil paints so gorgeously that one nearly hallucinates cheese smells in place of the linseed oil of his paint. DGKrueger dips polaroids made during intimate times with his partner in chocolate, Tracy Miller paints luscious and celebratory scenes of cake-laden tabletops, Elaine Tin Nyo documents the raising, creating and sharing of food, Michelle Segre uses bread as a sculptural medium, and Mie Yim uses pastels to draw food on Martha Stewart paint chips. The following events are concurrent with this exhivirion
MIE YIM MAKES BIBIMBAP
Sunday, July 10, 2016 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
ELAINE TIN NYO’S ‘SOUR CHERRY PIE’ Sunday, July 17, 2016 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
JENNIFER COATES ‘BUBBLES LECTURE” AND TART TASTING Friday, July 29, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The Lonely Surfer: New Works By Susan Meyer and Jeff Starr
Curated by Susan Jennings
May 14 - June 4, 2016
LABspace
Hillsdale, NY
Susan Meyer and Jeff Starr, an artist-couple, share an interest in visual accumulation and vernacular imagery, with somewhat obsessive results. They will install their work at LABspace as you might find it in
their overlapping studios, with an inevitable commingling of ideas and imagery. The title, The Lonely Surfer, an instrumental by Jack Nitzsche, suggests a shared fascination with transcendence and the mundane. Random cultural sparks play a role In each artist's work; sparks found in thrift stores, on the radio, or within that time conflating behemoth, the internet. The title also conjures the artist in her or his studio as the lonely surfer of inspiration and creation.
Susan Meyer who is predominately a sculptor makes work that alludes to architecture, the figure and landscape. Her pieces suggest overbuilt architectural concoctions: part shrine, part commune, part scholar’s rock, part disaster waiting to happen. She is interested in landscape and architecture as catalysts for our desires and aspirations.
Jeff Starr is a painter whose work is packed with imagery. One might say the work reflects the apparent increase in our daily visual/digital stimuli. Painted photographic images in the work are gleaned from popular sources: fashion magazines, album /CD covers, and obscured with an over-lay of doodles using archival water-based ink pens.
Meyer and Starr live together in Hudson, NY
New Video Installation by Christine Sciulli and Paintiongs/Drawings by Alexander Ross
Curated by Susan Jennings
February 16 - March 5, 2016
LABspace
Hillsdale, NY
LABspace is pleased to announce the opening of two new solo shows by Christine Sciulli and Alexander Ross on view Saturday, February 6th through Saturday, March 5th.
Video installation artist Christine Sciulli’s new piece for LABspace spins off of her concurrent solo show at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn. Sciulli explores a tangential theme of the 8-channel projection “ROIL” at Smack Mellon in greater detail with her site-specific LABspace project “Push Pull Passage” where degree and directionality of translucency are investigated through a two channel video projection.
Sciulli will install a hollow fabric structure, which will bifurcate the gallery and become the canvas for a push-pull dialogue between projectors continuously exchanging the role of front projection, inverting transparencies to opacities and emergent translucency.
Alexander Ross continues to explore the intersection of microbiology, technology, artificial life, and landscape grotesques. Drawings and paintings comprise his show titled “Schnek!”
The exhibition opens Saturday, February 6th with a reception for the artists from 1-3pm. The show runs through Saturday, March 5th.
Exquisite
Curated by Susan Jennings
August 15 - Se[tember 19, 2015
LABspace
Hillsdale, NY
LABspace will be hosting an artist reception on Saturday August 15th from 4-6 pm for the opening of ” Exquisite,” a group show of collaborative art made by teams of 3 artists on 15 x 22′′ paper. The show will run through Saturday, September 19th. Gallery hours are Thursday and Friday 1-6, Saturday 11-6 and by appointment.
Participating artists include: Anonymous, Cory Arcangel (appropriated), Cynthia Atwood, Agnes Barley, Roberley Bell, Martha Bone, Dawn Breeze, Germaine Brooks, Dina Bursztyn, Thea Carlson, Kelli Cain, Christian Cesari, Henry Chapman, Nicole Cherubini, Leona Christie, Jennifer Coates, Christin Couture, Beth Dary, Lucio DiBenedetto, Steve DiBenedetto, Carol Diehl, Daniella Dooling, Peter Dudek, Dahlia Elsayed, Diane Englander, Ellen Hackl Fagan
Alyssa Fanning, Alison Fox, Kathryn Frey, Cora Glasser, Charles Goldman, Ross Goldstein, Ernest Goodmaw, Joan Grubin, Catherine Hall, Meg Hitchcock, Tom Hlas, Dana Hoey, William Holtonm, Brece Honeycutt, William Hosie, David Humphrey, The Internet, Susan Jennings, Erick Johnson, Inju Kaboom, Zak Kitnick, Black Lake, Dennis Leder, Michael Lee, Les LeVeque, Meg Lipke, Kristin Lucas, Rita MacDonald, Nicole Maloof, Heidi Marben, Karen Margolis, Cameron Martin, Suzi Matthews, Susan Meyer, Alice Momm. Slink Moss, Sue Muskat, Gina Occhiogrosso, Vicky Palermo, Will Pappenheimer, Caroline Parks, Jon Rajkovich, John Riedman, Jennifer Riley, Matthew Ritchie, Russell Roberts
Michael Rodriguez, Alexander Ross, Ana-Miren San Millan, Lisa Sanditz, Katia Santibanez, Michael Scott, Steve Schmitz, Michelle Segre, Dee Shapiro, Julie Shapiro, Karen Shaw, Suzan Shutan, Amy Sillman, Lauren Silva, Oscar Smeraldo, Alan Sondheim, Monika Sosnowski, Joseph Stabilitom Jeff Starr, Kurt Steger, Laura Stein, Linda Stillman, Derek Stukuls, Suzy Sureck, Erica Svec, Amy Talluto, Melissa Thorne, Kyle Thurma, Matt Tiernan, Jill Vasileff, Oliver Wasow, Matthew Weinstein, Ann Wolf, Mie Yim, Andrew Zarou, Tamar Zinn
And more...
The Egg: An Expansive Look at Portraiture
Curated by Susan Jennings
July 30 - September 1, 2014
LABspace
Great Barrington, MA
"When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait."
- Pablo Picasso
David Armstrong, Lisa Beck, Ayn Choi, Daniella Dooling, Jason Fox, Eric Hanson, DGKrueger, Justine Kurland, John Lawson, LoVid, Heidi Marben, Paul McMahon, Laurie Thomas, Jackie Saccoccio, Katy Schneider, Cindy Sherman, Cynthia Zinser
Arcturus
Curated by Susan Jennings
June 25 - July 27, 2014
LABspace
Great Barrington, MA
David Brody, Gretchen Carlson, Jennifer Coates, Carol Diehl, Lydia Dona, Mariah Doren, Alison Fox, Erik Hanson, Dan Mahoney, Linda Nagaoka, Laurie Olinder, Alexander Ross, Emi Sato, Paul Smotrys for gauge, nyc, Laura Stein, Philip Taaffe
Will Wendt
eXergY
Curated by Susan Jennings May 2-June 22, 2014
LABspace
Great Barrington, MA
Carl D’Alvia, Beth Dary, Janice Caswell, Damien Crisp, Huckleberry DelSignore, Lori Ellison, Scott Grodesky, Blake Holland, Jennifer Johnson, David Humphrey, Moss Glass Properties, David Shaw, Ravenna Taylor, Michael Tong, Scott Waterman, Alan Weiner
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