Susan Dopp
Lacewing
🔹 Artist Lecture and Opening Reception: Friday, October 6, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
🔸 Artist dinner at AMoCA 7:00 PM.
Exhibition dates: October 6, 2023 to April 7, 2024.
Roswell-based artist Susan Marie Dopp has never stopped experimenting or evolving in her nearly 60-year career. Fluent in an impressive array of materials, methods, and styles, self-transformation has been her lifework and her gift lies in visualizing, creating, and sharing her capacity of building an imaginative, immersive world. Dopp’s latest creations reveal an immense amount of creativity through decades of expertise in art making. “I am happiest when I have no idea where I’m going,” Dopp says. “I am content in discovery, at my best when I am at play.” The illuminated sculptures-in-motion she has been working on over the past several years have given new life to objects abandoned by contemporary society. “There is a freedom, as these objects have previously been given form, which allows me to interact in unexpected and unpremeditated, perhaps, more playful and inventive ways,” she says. Dopp’s solo exhibition entitled Lacewing is on display in the Roswell Museum’s Paul Horgan Gallery.
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After attending the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC in the early 1970s, Susan Marie Dopp (1951- ) received her BFA in painting in 1984 and her MFA in painting in 1987, both from the San Francisco Art Institute in California. In addition to the RAiR grants, Susan was awarded Yaddo Fellowships in Saratoga Springs, New York in 2004 and 2005. She received more awards, including the S.E.C.A. from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1988, a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation in 1993, and a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2007. By 2008 Susan held over fifteen solo exhibitions and more than forty group exhibitions, mainly in California, New York and New Mexico.