Susan Ossman
Ossman is preoccupied with space. Both physical and metaphorical. The work has a strong sense of place, but at the same time, the depictions of fabric produce a feeling of impermanence and shape‑shifting evocative of transient lives where landscape, language and a sense of self are forever being renegotiated.
Susan works with substances at hand; she composes with tea, for example; she paints with coffee; she sculpts with silk, adding objects from her life and the lives of others, a commentary on the passage of time, on the process of the artist-anthropologist.
-Deborah Kapchan
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
Selected Articles and Interviews
States of Exception Offers Exceptional Vision
Notes on a Scattered Subject in Montmartre. The Self Portrait of Susan Marie Ossman
A New Way of Seeing: The Art of Windswept
Susan Ossman's In the Wash is Beauty in Motion
Susan Ossman: Her Moving Matters Offers Prescient Insight
The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop, An Interview with Susan Ossman
When Choreography and Secrets Collide
Allegra Lab Series on the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop