Susan Stover

My paintings and sculptures often recall an ethnic sensibility and geometric organization. I am interested in the objects made by non-Western cultures and how they are tied to identity, status, religious beliefs, and mythologies. Adapting processes that are traditionally used in the production of textiles, I use materials and techniques that refer to a collective history with the completed painting and forms revealing themselves in the making.

Pattern and repetition are an integral part of the work as I dye fabric, melt wax, embed fibers, and construct surfaces. I am intrigued with how repetitive labor, such as stamping, stitching and constructing, can be transformational and meditative. I choose these methods because it connects me to people in other cultures who work in the same way. Because of these interests, I continually explore my own ties to history, culture, and the arena of contemporary painting and sculpture.

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EDUCATION:
Master of Fine Arts – California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA - 1991
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Miami University, Oxford, OH - 1983

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2022-23 Shape/Shift, Colibri Gallery, Morgan Hill, CA 2022 Dialogues, Horse and Plow, Sebastopol, CA 2021 Visual Conversations, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, AZ 2020 Anamneses, Sonoma Academy, Santa Rosa, CA 2018 Reveries and Reliquaries, Jen Tough Gallery, Benicia, CA 2013 Urban Scrawl, Room Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 2010 Susan Stover, Bohemian Stoneworks Design Gallery, Sebastopol, CA 2009 Susan Stover – New Works, Gallery II, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 1999 Works by Susan Stover, Finley Center, Santa Rosa, CA 1993 Woven Monuments, Stephans Hall Gallery, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2023 The Summer Show, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Art Market, San Francisco, CA 2022 The Persistence of Beauty, Sofie Contemporary Arts, Calistoga, CA 2021 New Works, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2020 Pattern Play, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Hope is the Thing…, Sofie Contemporary Arts, Calistoga, CA Material Matters, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Blue, The Painting Center, NY, NY 2019 A Sense of Place, Monmounth University, West Long Branch, NJ Susan Proehl and Susan Stover, Paintings and Sculptures, Graton Gallery, Graton, CA Frozen Gesture, M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY So Far, Sofie Contemporary Arts, Calistoga, CA The Object in Art: To Have and To Hold, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA The Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Anything but Flat, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA Monochromatic, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA 2018 Flora, Fauna and Other-Worldly Visions, Sofie Contemporary Arts, Calistoga, CA The Summer Show, Jen Tough Gallery, Benicia, CA Bound and Unbound, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA Keep it 100, Invitational, On Center Gallery, Provincetown, MA The Blues, Invitational, Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, MA Windows to Other Worlds: Cultural Explorations, Art Center Morro Bay, Morro Bay, CA 2017 Mixed Media Painting and Sculpture, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Little Things, Jen Tough Gallery, Vallejo, CA Celebrating Women Painters, Invitational, Spindrift Gallery, Gualala, CA California: Weird, Wonderful + Wild, Jen Tough Gallery, Vallejo, CA 2016 Sensations, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ 11th Annual Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2015 One + One, A Gallery, Provincetown, MA Room Gallery, Mill Valley, CA 2014 Wax and Words, Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney, Australia Bibliophoria, Merit Award, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 2013 SWARM Collaboration Show, Hanson Scott Gallery, Seattle, WA Not Just Landscapes, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 2010-12 Room Gallery, Mill Valley, CA Dimensions Galleria, Petaluma, CA Bakers Dozen 2010, Invitational Show, Quicksilver Mine Co. Gallery, Forestville, CA Quicksilver Mine Co. Gallery, Forestville, CA Art from the Heart, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 2004-05 Brynn Carroll Gallery, Folsom, CA Alma, Santa Cruz, CA 2001-03 Graton Gallery, Graton, CA Lily Rose Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA Millennium Arts Gallery, Sebastopol, CA 2000 Seventh Rotation, Next Level Communications, Rohnert Park, CA Legacy Marketing Group, Cultural Arts Council Exhibit, Petaluma, CA 1999 Bizarre Bazaar, SoFo 2 Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA Dimensions, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA 1997 The Continuous Thread, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA 1995 Design Department Faculty Show, Alumni Hall, UC-Davis, Davis, CA 1994 Artists-in-Residence Show, Oregon School of Arts, Portland, OR Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993 Summer Faculty Show, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1992 Materials Hard and Soft, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA Creating Ourselves, Eastern New Mexico University, Miles Museum, Portales, NM Many Mansions: The Art of Shelter, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA Barclay Simpson Fine Arts Gallery, Lafayette, CA 1991 The Woven Paintings of Susan Stover, CCA Downtown Oakland Gallery, Oakland, CA 1990 Discovery “90 – Bay Area Emerging Artists, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Seggebruch, Patricia B. Encaustic Revelation. Cincinnati: North Light Books, 2014. p. 98-109.
Studio Visit., vol. 25. Summer 2014. The Open Studio Press. p. 184.
“Susan Stover.” Gathering Clouds: A Magazine of Contemporary Art. Issue 3, February 2013
Lovler, Sherrie. “Creating with Words.” Alphabet. Vol. 39, No. 1, Autumn 2013: p. 20.
Belto, Michelle. Wax and Paper Workshop. Cincinnati: North Light Books, 2012. p. 112.
"New Works: Susan Stover." FiberArts. Vol. 22., No. 3, Nov./Dec. 1995: p.18.
"Portfolio: Susan Stover." American Craft. Vol. 55., No. 1, Feb./March 1995: p. 59.
Glenn, Jeff. "Integrating Image and Structure." FiberArts. Vol. 18., No. 5, March/April 1992