Susan Grabel
In our youth-oriented culture, the lack of positive images of older women is glaring. Women are constantly bombarded with images of femaleness that bear no relation to what they see in the mirror. This work explores the reality of the older woman’s body confronting the conventional biases about aging women and validating women’s experiences of themselves. The body is not idealized, but shown with all its lumps and bumps, its beauty as well as its sensuality, grace and sexuality and so Here She Is, Ms America, proud and strong.
Susan Grabel is a figurative sculptor and printmaker. Her work is a reflection of the social and political narratives of the world around her. She has exhibited in solo and group shows at galleries, universities and museums across the country including the Staten Island Museum, Denise Bibro Gallery, NYC, Ceres Gallery, NYC, Monmouth Museum, NJ and Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, MI. Her work was included in such important surveys of sculpture as In Three Dimension: Women Sculptors of the ‘90's, 1995, curated by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, SI, NY, and Sculpture of the 70's: the Figure, 1981 at Pratt Manhattan Center, NYC.
Grabel received a Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming, 2007 as well as several grants from Staten Island Arts. Her work is in the collections of the Staten Island Museum and Rowan University Art Gallery as well as numerous private collections.
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