Short Bio
Susan Goetz Zwirn's career as artist and art professor has brought her to teach at five universities, culminating in the position of Full Professor at Hofstra University. She has established a painting studio in the novato Arts Center, CA.
Statement
To capture the infinite qualities of nature takes me on unpredictable journeys. Ranging from recognizable vistas to abstracted evocations of space, my palette is influenced by seasonal change, light and perspectives fostered by emotion. I also do figurative work when people from my travels compel a record of permanence. Painting is my attempt to grasp the dynamic present. I search for structure beneath the surface beauty, but mainly chaos of nature. I invite the viewer along with me, conflating perspectives, inhabiting multiple times and spaces . I play with spatial perception.
Resume / CV
Tiburon, CA., 94920
EDUCATION
EdD Columbia University 2002
Distinguished Writing Award
MA Rhode Island School of Design
BA Clark University
PAINTINGS
AWARDS
Marin Society of Artists, CA, Award 2024
Marin Society of Artists, CA, Award, 2023
Hecksher Museum, NY Second Prize
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, NY Winners Show,
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, First Prize
Hecksher Museum, Honorable Mention
Manhasset Art Association, C.W. Post College, NY, First Prize
Manhasset Art Association, North Shore Unitarian Church, First Prize
Aesthetics ’90, National Exhibit, Kansas, Second Prize
Hutchins Gallery, C.W. Post College, NY, Best in Show
Manhasset Art Association, Great Neck House, First Prize
Manhasset Art Association, C.W. Post College, Second Prize
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
2024 Tiburon Belvedere Library Juried Exhibit: Human Presence
2024. Marin Society of Artists, Award, On the Road
2023 Marin Society of Artists, Award
2014 Hagedorn Hall, Hofstra University
2010 Ashwag Hall, East Hampton, ‘The Usual Suspects’
2007 Hagedorn Hall, Hofstra University, Solo exhibit, Children of India, photographs
2005 Port Washington Library Gallery, Solo exhibit: Landscape Boundaries
1996 Gallery Authentique, NY
1996 Art 54 Gallery, Soho, NY
1997 Hecksher Museum, Award
1997 Winners Show, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island
1999 Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Award, 'First Prize'
1996 Port Washington Library Exhibition
1994 Artists Network of Great Neck, NY
1993 Elaine Benson Gallery, NY
1993 Artists Network of Great Neck, NY
1992 Hecksher Museum, NY
1992 Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts-NY
1992 Green Gallery, CT
1991 Gallery East, NY
1991 Sabbeth Gallery, Wunsch Arts Center, NY
1991 New York Institute of Technology, NY
1991 Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, NY
1991 Manhasset Art Association, C.W. Post College, NY, Award
1991 Manhasset Art Association, North Shore Unitarian Church, NY, Award
1991 Aesthetics ’90, Kansas, Award, 2nd place. National competition
1990 CW Post College, Bert Lipper Memorial Award, "Best in Show"
1990 Hecksher Museum, NY, Juried Exhibit
1990 National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylics
1991 Chelsea Mansion, Nassau County Exhibition, NY
1989 Elaine Benson Gallery, NY
1988 Hutchins Gallery, C.W. Post College, NY, Award
1988 Manhasset Art Association, Great Neck House, Award
1986 Manhasset Art Association, C.W. Post College, Award, "First Prize"
REVIEWS
Helen Harrison,
Art Critic for New York Times, Hecksher Museum
“Susan Goetz Zwirn’s Landscape Boundaries show how abstraction can push a familiar scene to the limits of recognizability. Using unnaturally intense colors and faceted forms, the painter reinterprets a tranquil harbor in imaginative terms.”
Eric Ernst
Critic and Artist, East Hampton Star
“Powerful Winter – Susan Goetz Zwirn’s painting ‘Winter’ offers a cascading cacophony of blues that are both random and ordered. There is a structure of chance evolution, as it were, that in its entirety is both quiet and evocative. The sense of cold is both palpable and powerful.”
Russell Hausman
Art Historian and Critic, professional journal
“Susan Zwirn’s impressionistic ‘Turbulent Reflections’ is a real beauty. A wooded landscape with a foreground of carefully woven strands of subtle colors ‘catch the moment’ with rare sensitivity. Lots of poetry here. The color harmonies are outstanding. This one would seem very much at home in a museum.”
Robert Carriola
Critic and Artist, professional newsletter
“ This ‘Best in Show’ award for ‘Main Street’ was based on the considerations for wholesome aesthetic order, command of tools and materials and transformation of matter into a new reality of illusion. (It) embraces excellent composition in contemporary design shapes. Integrated high key colors with subordinate repeats for cohesion, and a particularly interesting space movement which fluctuates between a 2-D and 3-D illusion, the technique and concept is noteworthy.”
Carole Paquette
Critic, Huntington Press, 35th annual LI exhibit at Hecksher Museum
"The (exhibit )includes the powerful mood piece Zwirn's 'Thoughts of Aaron.’ Blue and lavender shapes form a forest that is washed by lighter patterns which create tree trunks resembling legs."
Paintings in corporate, university and private collections, US and abroad.
