{"id":6340,"date":"2017-06-27T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2017-06-27T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T01:48:08","slug":"susanna-coffey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/susanna-coffey\/","title":{"rendered":"Susanna Coffey"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8861\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6340-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/SusannaCoffey.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/SusannaCoffey.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/SusannaCoffey.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susannacoffey.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6345 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0066.jpg?resize=343%2C257&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0066.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0066.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0066.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0066.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0066.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0066.jpg?resize=696%2C522&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0066.jpg?resize=1068%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0066.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0066.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_0066.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/>Susanna Coffey<\/a> is the F.H. Sellers Professor in Painting at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received a BFA from from the University of Connecticut at Storrs and an MFA from The Yale School of Art.\u00a0Her portraits are investigations of the iconic human head. The work is driven by questions about what a portrait image can mean. What is a beautiful appearance? Why do conventionally gendered images involve caricature? Can inchoate feeling-states be adequately portrayed?<\/p>\n<p>Meticulously observed, the works show her face in many guises and locations: under dramatic lighting, highly costumed, inside a studio, within landscapes, forest, places of fiery devastation, and amidst phantasmagoric patterns. Some portraits seem almost entirely abstract with only the barest suggestion of a human face.<\/p>\n<p>Concurrently with the self-portraits Coffey is at work with other themes. One is that of land and cityscapes painted in situ after nightfall. A book focused on these works and related writings by others. <em>Night Painting<\/em> will be published by Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in early 2018. In another, begun in 2015, Coffey is painting women artists at work in their studios. These works are her response to seeing that of the forty artists shown at The Gagosian Gallery\u2019s wonderful exhibition <em>In the Studio: Paintings <\/em>only about three exhibited artists were women.<\/p>\n<p>Coffey\u2019s artwork has been exhibited in The Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Aldrich Museum, The Hood Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, The American Academy of Arts and Letters and others. Her work is included in the collections of The Yale University Art Gallery, The Art institute of Chicago, and the Minneapolis museum of art, among others. Among her awards are The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Susanna Coffey lives and works in New York City<\/p>\n<p>Susanna Coffey\u2019s work is represented by Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects in New York City, Alpha Gallery in Boston and Galeria Isabel Ignacio in Seville, Spain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">Books mentioned during the interview:<i class=\"\">Three Degrees of Latitude, a curious guide to the natural history of the Pehuen\u00a0<\/i>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.janecoffey.com\/book\">Jane Coffey<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caroldbecker.com\/sitepages\/books\/losing-helen.html\"><i class=\"\"> Losing Helen<\/i><\/a> by Carol Becker as well as<a href=\"https:\/\/integrityproject.org\/2014\/09\/16\/humanity-in-dark-times\/\"><i class=\"\"> Men in Dark Times <\/i><\/a>\u00a0by Hannah Arendt and<i class=\"\"> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/27\/books\/review\/jung-changs-empress-dowager-cixi.html\">Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China<\/a><\/i> by Jung Chang.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_6343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6343\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6343 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2008_Transport12inby15in.oilpanelCoffeyS_14-copy.jpg?resize=696%2C555&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2008_Transport12inby15in.oilpanelCoffeyS_14-copy.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2008_Transport12inby15in.oilpanelCoffeyS_14-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C239&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2008_Transport12inby15in.oilpanelCoffeyS_14-copy.jpg?resize=768%2C613&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2008_Transport12inby15in.oilpanelCoffeyS_14-copy.jpg?resize=696%2C555&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2008_Transport12inby15in.oilpanelCoffeyS_14-copy.jpg?resize=526%2C420&amp;ssl=1 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transport oil on panel 2008 12&#8243;x14&#8243;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_6344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6344\" style=\"width: 664px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6344 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ohday2_SCoffey_email.jpg?resize=664%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ohday2_SCoffey_email.jpg?w=664&amp;ssl=1 664w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ohday2_SCoffey_email.jpg?resize=277%2C300&amp;ssl=1 277w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ohday2_SCoffey_email.jpg?resize=387%2C420&amp;ssl=1 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh Day, Verge and Bow oil on panel 2013 13 Inches by 12 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/SusannaCoffey.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listSusanna Coffey is the F.H. 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