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Susan Rowland

Brooklyn NY United States

http://SusanS Rowland.net
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9/11 WEED PRINTS

During the winter after the attack on the World Trade Center I obsessively read W.G. Sebald's novels about destruction, memory and landscape. His stories reminded me that the butterfly bush, Buddleia, is revered by Europeans as the first plant to return after the firebombing of their cities. I wondered what would grow around our ruins in the first spring after 9/11.

I know the persistence of plants as for several years I have been making monoprints of city weeds from parking lots, cracks in the sidewalk, gutters and demolition sites. When the first spring growth of 2002 appeared on my Brooklyn sidewalk, I went over to the chaotic destruction area to look for green.

On that day, March 11, 2002, the only sprouts I found were at the base of the south side of a building on Edgar Street. With Marina Ancona at Ten Grand Press, I printed those tiny green leaves. I was never allowed into the center of the site, hardhat territory, but all summer I walked the circumference and collected 22 annual species growing from seeds that had been buried under rubble and ash. On each print I have written where the plant was growing and have stamped the latitude and longitude of the center of the World Trade site, the target.

SUSAN ROWLAND
1 ROCKWELL PLACE
BROOKLYN, NY 11217
718.797.0235
631.725.5729
susansrowland@gmail.com
www.susanrowland.net
BORN: Boston, Massachusetts, 1940
EDUCATION
Vassar College, 1962
Art Students' League
New York City, 1972-74
Richard Diebenkorn Master Class
Santa Fe Institute, 1986
Long Island University, 1989
TRUSTEE
Brooklyn Arts Council
PANELIST
NYSCA (New York State Council of the Arts)
NYCDCA (New York City Department of Cultural Affairs)
AWARDS
Artist/Homeless Collaborative Grant, 1991
FELLOWSHIP
National Endowment for the Arts. 1976-77
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2003 Kate Ganz Ltd., NYC, A9/11: The Season After,@ solo show
2003 Spike Gallery, New York City, Warhol-Cats / Rowland-Dogs
2001 Parrish Museum, AGarden Follies,@ Southampton, New York
2000 Kate Ganz Ltd., NYC, Drawings and Pots, solo show
1999 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York City
1995 Tunisian External Communication Agency, Tunis
1994 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1993 Books & Co., New York City, watercolors
1991 Greenwich House Pottery, New York City
1991 Hal Katzen Gallery, "Vases," New York
1990 BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, solo show
Set Design: Estelle Parsons in Beckett and Fo
1990 P.S. 1, Queens, "China, June 4, 1989
1987 Albuquerque Museum, "Uncommon Spaces"
1984 Dubose Gallery, Houston, Texas, solo show
1983 Louise Himelfarb Gallery, Southampton, New York
Robert Dash/Susan Rowland
1983 Annual Artists of the Springs Invitational Exhibition
1982-85 Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, NYC, solo shows
1981-82 Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton,
1987 Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, solo show NY
1981 Hudson River Museum
1981 First Women's Bank, New York City
1980 Edinburgh Arts Festival, "New New Mexico"
1979 Watson de Nagy, Houston, Texas
1979 Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, solo show
1979 Elaine Horwitch, Scottsdale, New Mexican artists
1979 San Francisco, "Santa Fe in the Bay Area"
1979 Santa Fe Festival Invitational
1978 Denver, Colorado, "Salute to Santa Fe"
1978 Santa Fe Festival Invitational
1978 Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, installations
1978 Suydam Gallery, New York City, solo show
1978 Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, solo show
1977 First Women's Bank, New York City, group show
1977 Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Santa Fe, Women's Painting
1977 St. John's College, Santa Fe, solo show
1976 Southwestern Biennial, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe
1975 Shidoni Annual, Tesuque, New Mexico
PUBLICATIONS
New York Times, September 5, 2002, Gathering First Sprouts after Disaster,@
by Anne Raver
Becker & Colacello, Studios by the Sea. Artists of Long Island=s East End,
(Abrahms, 2002)
Vogue Magazine, March 2000, Dodie Kazanjian, APeople are Talking About@
The East Hampton Star, October 12, 2000, Brett Littman, ASusan Rowland@
The East Hampton Star, Aug. 4, 1994, Rose C.S. Slivka, "From the Studio"
New York Magazine, January 11, 1988, "The Art of the Matter"
The East Hampton Star, July 21, 1983, Phyllis Braff, "From the Studio"
Newsday, August 20, 1982, Amei Wallach, "On Art/An East End Renewal"
Jocasta Innes, Paint Magic, Van Nostrand, Rhinehold, 1981
New Mexico Catalog, Jan Adlmann, Edinburgh, 1980
Art News, December 1980, William Peterson, "Smoke Rings, Etc."
Times of London, August 19, 1980, "Edinburgh Festival@
Art in America, Summer 1980, Joan Simon, AReport from New Mexico@
Artspace, Spring 1980, Gifford Phillips, "Judging Regional Art"
Art News, William Peterson,
New Mexico Reviews, 1979
Texas Homes, March 1979
The Santa Fean Magazine, Cover, January 1979,
Rooms With a View, Herbert Wise, Quick Fox Publishing, 1978
Artspace, Summer 1978, William Peterson, "Susan Rowland"
Santa Fe Reporter, June 1978, Walter Loniak
New York Magazine, December 19, 1977, Susana Duncan, AMaps of New
York@
Albuquerque Independent, February 25, 1977
Santa Fe Reporter, February 19, 1976
Santa Fe Reporter, William Clark, "The Modern Impulse"
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albuquerque Museum
Bromley-Jacobsen
Channing and Weinberg
Charter Atlantic, Inc.
Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle
Day Berry Howard
Enhance Reinsurance Corp.
Fine Arts Museum, Santa Fe, N.M.
Fisher Frances Trees & Watts
GE Plastics Technologies
Hendrix Companies
Hiebert Corporation
ISD Inc.
McCaffrey and McCall
Penny McCall
Millennium Hotel, NYC
Office of Comptroller of The Currency
Otis Elevator Company
Rexham Corporation
Roswell, New Mexico Art Museum
Sage, Grey, Todd & Sims
Silverstein Properties
Southeast Banking Corp.
Tambrands
Temple Texas Cultural Arts Center
Warner Amex Cable
Bennington College Collection
New-York Historical Society
Pfizer Chemicals
Whitney Museum of American Art
Seattle Public Library