Suzanne Morlock is a mixed media artist living in the Rocky Mountain
region. Influenced by growing up and receiving early training as an artist
in Los Angeles, she currently looks to the rural surroundings of
northwestern Wyoming for a more introspective influence on her work.
Starting out as a painter, currently she is more interested in sculpture
and installation forms. Lately those materials trend toward paper, felt, recycled materials, and
other organic-originated forms. Her work has been in group and solo
exhibitions throughout the West and the world beyond, including France, Germany, Iceland, Poland,
and Turkey. For a sample, visit her
Galleries.
this website!
News
Wyoming Welcome Center
October 2011
Suzanne was one of the eight submissions selected for further consideration for the Wyoming Arts Council's
Art in Public Places Program. The recent call for artists was for the Southeast Wyoming
Welcome Center near Wyoming's border with Colorado off of I-25. Suzanne's concepts for the
interior and the exterior locations are both being
considered for this new state building. Of course Suzanne's entries utilize recycled materials.
Read more about the
project.
Fall Arts Festival
September 2011
For Falls Arts Festival, Suzanne created a public art piece entitled Silage. An imaginative
surrogate of the recently harvested hayrolls of August, Silage was created from cast off
materials. Since audience reactions can never be predicted, Suzanne was interested in the cow's
assessment of this strange addition to the field. The most common response was that it made
a good tool to cure that itch!
Landfill Art
August 2011
Suzanne enjoys collaborations around themes that resonate for her. She was approached in the
Spring to participate in a project with her favorite theme – recycled materials. Pennsylvania
artist Ken Marquis began this project which now incorporates over 1,000 artists who
were given old
hubcaps to create new art. Ken's goal is to represent as many places around the world as possible,
to produce a catalog and a traveling exhibition for a selected few of the pieces. See more
information
about the project. Also see the
AP News video.
Viridian Gallery Show
July 2011
"There is so much interesting and exciting art being done today that both Ms. Sussman and
Viridian Artists' director, Vernita Nemec, selected additional artists
(including Suzanne —ed.) to be included in Curator's
Choice & Director's Choice PowerPoint presentations to be shown continually throughout the exhibition.
The inclusion of these artists is also a reflection of Viridian's desire to give exposure to the
abundance of outstanding art being created today."
Press Release (.pdf as Google sites attachment for download)
WAC Visits
July 2011
In Mid July,
Wyoming Arts
blogger, the Visual and Performing Arts Specialist Mike Shay; and curator of the 2011
Biennial Fellowship, New York artist and 2011 fellowship juror, Nancy Bowen; visited Suzanne's
Wilson studio as part of the Fellowship award and curation process.
Honorable Mention awarded by WAC
June 2011
Suzanne received an honorable mention from the
Wyoming Arts Council
(WAC) this spring. Three artists from Teton County will be represented at the biennial exhibition
celebrating the winners and the others honored. This year, the exhibit will be held in the Art!Space
Gallery at the Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wyoming.
Fashion in Jackson Hole
June 2011
CLAD: art+cloth+street is a fashion/art event being held at the Factory Studios in Jackson, Wyoming.
Suzanne was invited to respond to the theme of the event with a face off of images, —volleying
against Lyndsay McCandless. To see an introduction to the event watch
here
Sweater roosts at the Charles Schulz Museum
May 2011
April saw the de-installation of Sweater from the ArtSpot in Jackson, Wyoming and it's travel by
truck to the Charles Schulz Museum. Mid May, Suzanne traveled to Santa Rosa with her trusty
fabricator and technical advisor, Glenn Messersmith, to erect the sculpture in it's new
spot
for the next six months.
The exhibit which Sweater is part of is "Pop'd From the Panel", co-curated by Jane O'Cain
of the Schultz Museum and Michael Schwager, Director of the Sonoma State University Gallery
and art history professor. Read press from the exhibit
here.
Drape on Display in Williamsburg
April 2011
Suzanne created a site-specific piece called Drape, for the "Art from
Detritus: Upcycling with Imagination" group exhibition in response to the Williamsburg
Art Center's 14 foot ceilings. Using much smaller needles than her recent forays into knitting,
she used cast off VHS video tape as the 'yarn' of choice for this piece.
About the exhibit:
"Art from Detritus"
continues the dialogue between art and the lives of ordinary people. This exhibit serves as a creative reminder
that trash can be not only recycled, but also reused, to create beautiful and unique objects of art.
All these artists see beauty in the discarded that fills and eventually serves to destroy our
environment and realize this is a satisfying and rewarding way to creatively deal with the problem
of too much trash."
Galleries of Recent Work
April 2011
We've been quite busy and have neglected to keep everyone up to date
with recent images. We have now rectified that in the
Galleries.
The travel slideshows are finally up to date and can be accessed from the
Life page.
New slideshows include
travel to Poland
and the production of Magic Carpet Ride, as well as to Iceland for Nets and France for
Overlay. We also spent time as volunteers with the Cross Cultural Collaborative in Ghana.
The links to the recent galleries
have been added to the earlier news items below: Interior, Queens College, Flushing, NY Sweater, Jackson, WY Magic Carpet Ride,
Łódź, Poland Nets,
Skagaströnd, Iceland;
as well as to the
Installations Gallery.
Installation at Queens College Art Center Project Space
March 2011
Suzanne has been invited to create a newspaper environment at the Queens
College Art Center Project Space. (Queens College is part of CUNY, City University
of New York) The room will be transformed into an other
worldly landscape using the Knight, the college campus newspaper, as
the source material for this site specific installation.
The installation
will be up through June 2011.
Queens College Art Center
Scroll down in the Current Exhibitions for Suzanne's announcement.
Sweater to Travel to Charles Schulz Museum in Late Spring
February 2011
The Charles Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa California has invited Sweater
to be a part of the exhibit Pop'd from the Panel, a group exhibition
that will be held June through December 2011. As of this writing, the exhibit
curator has tenatively decided to have the piece flying off the front of the
museum building. Other works of art inspired by the comic strip will be on display
during the exhibition. Charles Schulz Museum (Cached)
Site Specific Installation at the Central Museum of Textiles
January 2011
The week of January 10th a new textile factory was tempoarily created
in the gallery space at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland. With
a long history of textiles, this former textile factory turned museum has
celebrated all things textile for over 50 years. Suzanne proposed a site
specific installation entitled
Magic Carpet Ride.
This 80 foot long knitted newspaper piece was created with the assistance of 12 students from
the Fine Arts Academy in Łódź. Central Museum of Textiles article
Translated from Polish to English by Google Wyoming Arts Council Article
JH Weekly article
Installation of Winter ArtSpot Piece Sweater
December 2010
On December 16th the public art piece
Sweater
was installed on the ArtSpot frame located on the South side of Broadway just east of the
Virginian Lodge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The process took the better
part of the day under clear but chilly skies, assembling the five pieces
that make the giant Charlie Brown-inspired sweater. A reception for the project
was held on Tuesday December 21st, the Winter Solstice, the traditional change over of the ArtSpot.
Reception Announcement in News & Guide
Article in JH Weekly
Open Studio — The Making of Sweater
November 2010
Come by the Center for the Arts on Sundays this Month between Noon and 4pm to see the
progress on the creation of Sweater, the winter ArtSpot public art piece
created with remnant by-product from a sequins and spangle factory in Florida.
Suzanne is knitting this material into a fabric using the sweater worn by
Charlie Brown as an inspiration for this garment's form.
Art Residency — Skagaströnd, Iceland
August 2010
Suzanne spent the month of August at the
NES Artist Residency
which is located in the small town of Skagaströnd with a population of 500 people in northwestern Iceland.
The residency culminated with the site specific installation of
Nets.
ArtSpot Artist — Winter 2010
July 2010
The Center of Wonder
awarded Suzanne a grant and the opportunity to create for the ArtSpot on Broadway in Jackson, Wyoming. Suzanne is
planning to create a sculpture using recycled materials and a knitting technique.
Exhibition in Poland Announced
June 2010
Suzanne's solo exhibition at the
Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa
in Łódź, Poland was set for January 2011. Suzanne had been in discussion with the
museum for some time to work out the details of a site specific installation for a museum space using
a textile technique.
Ninth National Juried Exhibition at Ceres Gallery
May 2010
Two of Suzanne's works were selected for the Ninth National Exhibition at
Ceres Gallery
in New York City. Pieces selected for the exhibition use the knitting techniques that often accompany
her re-imaging of discarded linear materials.
L'Avenir En Papier
April 2010
Suzanne participated in L'Avenier en Papier, an international exhibition held in Le Vigan, France. She
created a site specific installation for the chapel gallery space during public performances.
Knitted newspaper "yarn" was created using the local newspaper Midi Libre.
L'Avenir en Papier
Sagebrush Fund for the Arts Fellowship
March 2010
Sagebrush Fund for the Arts awarded Suzanne an unrestricted fellowship to support the advancement
of her art practice. This fund is highly selective and artists are chosen via a nomination process.
L'Avenir en Papier Exhibit in Le Vigan France planned
February 2010
Resource conserving paper making methods was the challenge of the exhibit — L'Avenir en Papier
(The Future in Paper) — organized by international papermakers to be held in Le Vigan,
France in May 2010. Suzanne's concept for turning recycled newspapers into spun "yarn"
and knitted into coverings for the stained glass windows in the exhibit space was Suzanne's solution.
Suzanne will do two performances of her newspaper knitting pieces called "Overlay".
Blogging for MAD
January 2010
While in Ghana to contribute paper making ideas, Suzanne visited a Krobo bead making operation
that uses recycled glass as the raw material. Her experiences are summarized in a
blog contribution
on the website of New York's Museum of Arts and Design.
Suzanne was one of the eight submissions selected for further consideration for the Wyoming Arts Council's
Art in Public Places Program. The recent call for artists was for the Southeast Wyoming
Welcome Center near Wyoming's border with Colorado off of I-25. Suzanne's concepts for the
interior and the exterior locations are both being
considered for this new state building. Of course Suzanne's entries utilize recycled materials.
Read more about the
project
.
For Falls Arts Festival, Suzanne created a public art piece entitled Silage. An imaginative
surrogate of the recently harvested hayrolls of August, Silage was created from cast off
materials. Since audience reactions can never be predicted, Suzanne was interested in the cow's
assessment of this strange addition to the field. The most common response was that it made
a good tool to cure that itch!
Suzanne enjoys collaborations around themes that resonate for her. She was approached in the
Spring to participate in a project with her favorite theme – recycled materials. Pennsylvania
artist Ken Marquis began this project which now incorporates over 1,000 artists who
were given old
hubcaps to create new art. Ken's goal is to represent as many places around the world as possible,
to produce a catalog and a traveling exhibition for a selected few of the pieces. See more
information
"There is so much interesting and exciting art being done today that both Ms. Sussman and
Viridian Artists' director, Vernita Nemec, selected additional artists
(including Suzanne —ed.) to be included in Curator's
Choice & Director's Choice PowerPoint presentations to be shown continually throughout the exhibition.
The inclusion of these artists is also a reflection of Viridian's desire to give exposure to the
abundance of outstanding art being created today."
April saw the de-installation of Sweater from the ArtSpot in Jackson, Wyoming and it's travel by
truck to the Charles Schulz Museum. Mid May, Suzanne traveled to Santa Rosa with her trusty
fabricator and technical advisor, Glenn Messersmith, to erect the sculpture in it's new
spot
for the next six months.
Suzanne created a site-specific piece called Drape, for the "Art from
Detritus: Upcycling with Imagination" group exhibition in response to the Williamsburg
Art Center's 14 foot ceilings. Using much smaller needles than her recent forays into knitting,
she used cast off VHS video tape as the 'yarn' of choice for this piece.
Suzanne has been invited to create a newspaper environment at the Queens
College Art Center Project Space. (Queens College is part of CUNY, City University
of New York) The room will be transformed into an other
worldly landscape using the Knight, the college campus newspaper, as
the source material for this site specific installation.
The installation
The Charles Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa California has invited Sweater
to be a part of the exhibit Pop'd from the Panel, a group exhibition
that will be held June through December 2011. As of this writing, the exhibit
curator has tenatively decided to have the piece flying off the front of the
museum building. Other works of art inspired by the comic strip will be on display
during the exhibition. 
The week of January 10th a new textile factory was tempoarily created
in the gallery space at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, Poland. With
a long history of textiles, this former textile factory turned museum has
celebrated all things textile for over 50 years. Suzanne proposed a site
specific installation entitled
Magic Carpet Ride
On December 16th the public art piece
Sweater
Come by the Center for the Arts on Sundays this Month between Noon and 4pm to see the
progress on the creation of Sweater, the winter ArtSpot public art piece
created with remnant by-product from a sequins and spangle factory in Florida.
Suzanne is knitting this material into a fabric using the sweater worn by
Charlie Brown as an inspiration for this garment's form.
Suzanne spent the month of August at the
NES Artist Residency
The Center of Wonder
Two of Suzanne's works were selected for the Ninth National Exhibition at
Ceres Gallery;)
Resource conserving paper making methods was the challenge of the exhibit — L'Avenir en Papier
(The Future in Paper) — organized by international papermakers to be held in Le Vigan,
France in May 2010. Suzanne's concept for turning recycled newspapers into spun "yarn"
and knitted into coverings for the stained glass windows in the exhibit space was Suzanne's solution.
Suzanne will do two performances of her newspaper knitting pieces called "Overlay".
While in Ghana to contribute paper making ideas, Suzanne visited a Krobo bead making operation
that uses recycled glass as the raw material. Her experiences are summarized in a
blog contribution