WORKS IN-PROGRESS and NEWS: SUSAN COOLEN / VISUAL ARTIST
INTERVENTIONS / INSTALLATIONS
SELECTED WORKS
Susan Coolen BIOGRAPHY
Return to home page:
www.susancoolen.com
A NEW WEB PAGE IS IN PROGRESS !
In the meantime, selected exhibits and projects featured below on an Instagram site [ongoing updates].
For curatorial interest in an expanded and comprehensive overview of projects ongoing, please contact:
susancoolen (at) gmail.com
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EXHIBIT September 1, 2019 - August 1, 2020
LIFT Series: Lost & Found
Presented by the Robert Langen Art Gallery
Wilfred Laurier University, Library Building
Waterloo, Ontario
PUDDLE/PUDDLES/POOL' is a long-term 'interventions' project. Photographic documentation of interventions and studio work are in-progress.
LIFT Series: Lost & Found
Presented by the Robert Langen Art Gallery
Wilfred Laurier University, Library Building
Waterloo, Ontario
PUDDLE/PUDDLES/POOL' is a long-term 'interventions' project. Photographic documentation of interventions and studio work are in-progress.
Selected overviews can also be seen on its Twitter site
Twitter@PuddlePuddles
Twitter@PuddlePuddles
'PUDDLE/PUDDLES/POOL': long term 'interventions' project
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CURRENT
A new 'LIBRARY' project: organizing years of art making. It is dossier, archive, resource, document & a platform for new projects. It contains singular components, has many sub-series & gives many connecting threads to my larger practice. So far approx. 400 books. More to come!
A new 'LIBRARY' project: organizing years of art making. It is dossier, archive, resource, document & a platform for new projects. It contains singular components, has many sub-series & gives many connecting threads to my larger practice. So far approx. 400 books. More to come!
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CURRENT
NEW PROJECT: '(an incomplete) MUSEUM (of ART) for the FUTURE'. Another 'time-capsule' project this year ... bundling up the multitude of exploratory drawings from the specimens project & more. Drawings & sketch books have been packaged as small time-capsules, bundled & sent to a new waste management 'cell' [future archaeological site?]. The art has been documented & noted in a series of 24+ project books.
NEW PROJECT: '(an incomplete) MUSEUM (of ART) for the FUTURE'. Another 'time-capsule' project this year ... bundling up the multitude of exploratory drawings from the specimens project & more. Drawings & sketch books have been packaged as small time-capsules, bundled & sent to a new waste management 'cell' [future archaeological site?]. The art has been documented & noted in a series of 24+ project books.
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NEWS 2018
Spring and Fall 2018
Three new books have been designed and produced thanks to a Region of Waterloo Arts Fund Grant. Titled 'A Companion Library of COLLECTIONS' for '(an incomplete) Museum (of categories) for the Future', these books feature three initial nature specimen categories; birds, animals and plants. They have been placed in the Ayr Library holdings and the Kitchener Library [along with the original 4-book series '(an incomplete) Museum (of categories) for the Future'].
Currently there are an additional 14 'collections' books now added to the project and these have been produced as artist proofs [soft-cover series]. Images below feature selected covers and pages from three of the books.
To see updates on project progress:
twitter@museumforfuture
Spring and Fall 2018
Three new books have been designed and produced thanks to a Region of Waterloo Arts Fund Grant. Titled 'A Companion Library of COLLECTIONS' for '(an incomplete) Museum (of categories) for the Future', these books feature three initial nature specimen categories; birds, animals and plants. They have been placed in the Ayr Library holdings and the Kitchener Library [along with the original 4-book series '(an incomplete) Museum (of categories) for the Future'].
Currently there are an additional 14 'collections' books now added to the project and these have been produced as artist proofs [soft-cover series]. Images below feature selected covers and pages from three of the books.
To see updates on project progress:
twitter@museumforfuture
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NEWS 2017
November 2-4th, 2017
NIGHT/SHIFT 2017
Pop up art & performance crawl in
downtown Kitchener, ON
Featuring
P.U.D.D.L.E.S.
from the ongoing project
'PUDDLE / PUDDLES / POOL' [follow on twitter]
Online interview [available from artist]
Night\Shift artist chat: Susan Coolen P.U.D.D.L.E.S.
IN-PROGRESS
Susan Coolen was awarded a Waterloo Region Arts Fund grant to produce three new artist books for her 2016 Ayr Library artist-in-residence works: 'A Companion Library' for '(an incomplete) Museum (of categories) for the Future' series. These new books ... 'A Book of Collections ...' will feature three of her specimen categories; birds, animals and plants. These books will be added to the 'A Companion Library' series at Ayr Library, and a set [including the '(an incomplete) Museum (of categories) for the Future' series] will go to the Kitchener Library.
Projects
Bouncing Balls
NEWS and PROJECTS 2016
NEWS and PROJECTS 2016
'A Companion Library'
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Susan Coolen was the 2016 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE at the AYR PUBLIC LIBRARY
The residency was based on the project (an incomplete) MUSEUM (of categories) for the FUTURE.
An 8-set series of books titled 'A Companion Library' (web pages are being updated) were produced at the end of the residency and will be included in the Ayr Library's collections.
The books include an overview of the residency, a 4-book series on the twitter timeline for the 100 time-capsues of (an incomplete) MUSEUM (of categories) for the FUTURE and art books on the various projects initiated during the residency.
The residency was based on the project (an incomplete) MUSEUM (of categories) for the FUTURE.
An 8-set series of books titled 'A Companion Library' (web pages are being updated) were produced at the end of the residency and will be included in the Ayr Library's collections.
The books include an overview of the residency, a 4-book series on the twitter timeline for the 100 time-capsues of (an incomplete) MUSEUM (of categories) for the FUTURE and art books on the various projects initiated during the residency.
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(an incomplete) MUSEUM (of categories) for the FUTURE is a is an ongoing long-term project developed out of years of gathering various specimens from urban and rural environments [including my own bone yards]. The project to-date has been a process of documenting my specimens as small groupings, and then packaging them up for eventual burial as time-capsules for a perceived but unknown 'future'.
The project has been documented on a twitter-site, and one can view contents of the packets as they were prepared, in a time-line that began in the Spring of 2015. As of this Fall 2016 all 100 packages have been buried in public places, or incorporated into waste management sites as future time-capsules. Drawings of the specimens from the 100 time-capsules are in production and being worked on for continued book works for the 'Companion Library' for (an incomplete) MUSEUM (of categories) for the Future.
twitter@museumforfuture
The project has been documented on a twitter-site, and one can view contents of the packets as they were prepared, in a time-line that began in the Spring of 2015. As of this Fall 2016 all 100 packages have been buried in public places, or incorporated into waste management sites as future time-capsules. Drawings of the specimens from the 100 time-capsules are in production and being worked on for continued book works for the 'Companion Library' for (an incomplete) MUSEUM (of categories) for the Future.
twitter@museumforfuture
NEWS 2015-2016
PRESS / June 23, 2016:
D'Amato: Art from dead animals is where repulsion and fascination meet
Susan Coolen's 'Parlance No. 6' will be included in the Waterloo Region Grand River Transit exhibition: 'Art That Moves You'
Visual artwork and poetry displayed on ixpress buses [2016-2017]
Susan Coolen was awarded a 2014 Region of Waterloo Arts Fund Grant for her 'A LITTER-ARTI LIBRARY'. This funded project has culminated in the printing of a 50-set graphic art books series and 3 companion books from The LITTER-ARTI Project [2013 City of Kitchener A.I.R.] These completed book sets are being placed in 4 public institutions in Kitchener-Waterloo [a press release is available].
Susan Coolen gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.
PRESS / June 23, 2016:
D'Amato: Art from dead animals is where repulsion and fascination meet
Susan Coolen's 'Parlance No. 6' will be included in the Waterloo Region Grand River Transit exhibition: 'Art That Moves You'
Visual artwork and poetry displayed on ixpress buses [2016-2017]
Susan Coolen was awarded a 2014 Region of Waterloo Arts Fund Grant for her 'A LITTER-ARTI LIBRARY'. This funded project has culminated in the printing of a 50-set graphic art books series and 3 companion books from The LITTER-ARTI Project [2013 City of Kitchener A.I.R.] These completed book sets are being placed in 4 public institutions in Kitchener-Waterloo [a press release is available].
Susan Coolen gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.
Fall 2015
a collaboration-installation for NIGHT/SHIFT 2015 in downtown Kitchener.
a collaboration-installation for NIGHT/SHIFT 2015 in downtown Kitchener.
GROOVY installation
GROOVY installation
GROOVY installation
GROOVY installation
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TARGET/PRACTICE is an ongoing project developing from the documentation of urban tree stumps and tree removal. It explores a growing interest in the graphic iconography of targets, codes and more.
Works in progress include documentation photography, graphic works, works on paper, video animation and documented interventions [such as the chalk targets on stumps: see below].
Works in progress include documentation photography, graphic works, works on paper, video animation and documented interventions [such as the chalk targets on stumps: see below].
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Spring 2015
Spring 2015
A new version of NEON/WOOD was installed at Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island on May 30, 2015, as part of the art centre's EXVEE Anniversary Event and will stay in situ.
A new version of NEON/WOOD was installed at Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island on May 30, 2015, as part of the art centre's EXVEE Anniversary Event and will stay in situ.
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Fall 2014
NEON/WOOD is a collaboration-installation with Bread Heads in downtown Kitchener, where 50+ pieces of wood-fired oven kindling hangs as a simmering ceiling installation of glowing neon colours and forms installed during the 2014 NIGHT SHIFT in Kitchener-Waterloo.
2013
LITTER-ARTI Projects
City of Kitchener 2013 Artist in Residence
The LITTER-ARTI Project: '50 Ways to Leave Your Litter'
NEON/WOOD is a collaboration-installation with Bread Heads in downtown Kitchener, where 50+ pieces of wood-fired oven kindling hangs as a simmering ceiling installation of glowing neon colours and forms installed during the 2014 NIGHT SHIFT in Kitchener-Waterloo.
2013
LITTER-ARTI Projects
City of Kitchener 2013 Artist in Residence
The LITTER-ARTI Project: '50 Ways to Leave Your Litter'
ONLINE
SUSAN COOLEN - SCAVENGER AESTHETICS
An online Q & A Interview with Chester Alamo-Costello,
for COMP Art & Design Magazine, Department of Art+Design
St. Francis University, Joliet, Illinois