Artist Statement
I am a mixed media artist living in upstate New York, making paintings, collages, sculptural ceramics, and wall installations where I combine imaginative and observational elements that evoke dreamlike qualities. I combine figures, landscapes, and abstract patterns in my work. Similar to how a dream changes and remixes reality. Each medium contributes to conceptualizing and fleshing out ideas in the others. Disembodied arms and legs reach for the sky, distorted faces swirl in a patterned sky, frames envelop and become part of the inner world of the painting. By blending figures and landscapes, I emphasize our interconnectedness as human beings within the larger landscape. It serves as a reminder to me that we are all intertwined parts of a whole. The act of observing and interpreting the environment is central to my artistic process.
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Linda Suskind-Kosmer
@suskindkosmer
lindasuskind-kosmer.com
Born 1955, New York
Lives and works in Cooperstown, NY
Education
1977 BFA University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1977
1976 Tyler School of Art, Rome Italy 1976
2020-24 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Residencies
2024 Chateau D’Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France
1985 Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2018 CANO Oneonta
2014 The Word and Image Gallery, Treadwell, NY
2013 Hathaway Gallery at CANO, Oneonta, NY
2012 The Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY
1996 28 North Gallery, NY, NY
1996 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea, NY “Lust for Rust”- online exhibition
2024 Women’s Work Art, Poughkeepsie, NY “Spirit of the Season”
2023 Cooperstown Art Association Regional Juried Show 2023
2022 Flat File Gallery online Exhibition 2022
2022 Art Garage, Cooperstown, “The Colors Green”
2022 Cooperstown Art Association, National Juried Exhibition,
Proctor Prize
2021 CANO, Oneonta NY, “Portrait Exposed”, two person juried show
2021 Carter Burden Gallery, Chelsea NY, Looking Forward, National
2021 Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea, NY, “Drawn to Paper”, National Juried
2021 The Smithy, Cooperstown, “Water”
2021 Cooperstown Art Association, National Juried Exhibition
2020 Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, NY, “Darkest Before Dawn”
2020 Cooperstown Art Association National Juried Exhibition, Juror
Emma Golden, Frank P Whiting Memorial Prize
2018 Cherry Branch Gallery, NY “Collaborations”
2018 CANO, Oneonta, NY
2018 Cherry Branch Gallery, NY 10 x 10 Group show
2017 ValeRina Gallerina + Greg, Darkness, Ridgewood, Queens
2017 Cherry Branch Gallery, Cherry Valley, NY “Artistic Reflections”
2017 Cherry Branch Gallery, Cherry Valley, NY “And the Children
Spoke”
2017 Cooperstown Art Assoc. National Juried show, Winsor Newton
Juror, Larry Brown
2017 Cherry Branch Gallery, NY “10 x 10”
2016 Cherry Branch Gallery, “The Painter’s Reality”
2015 Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY “Conversation Pieces”
2011 Window Gallery at 1 Main Street in Dumbo. Brooklyn, NY
2009 The Smithy-Pioneer, Cooperstown, NY.
2008 The Smithy-Pioneer “The Landscape Show” Cooperstown, NY.
1999 Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, NYC, “Framed, the Artist-Framer”
1996 Gallery 53 Artworks Cooperstown, NY, “Harvest Show”
1985 Barrett House/Dutchess County Art. Assoc.”Hudson Valley ‘85”
Curator, Barbara Haskell, Whitney Museum
1985 Small Works ’85, New York University