THE COLLECTOR’S GUIDE: SUSANNE VERTEL STUDIO

Image: © Susanne Vertel
"Wish Upon An Angel", Bronze
7'3" high above base, 12" granite base
Lifesize / Ed. 20
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Susanne Vertel 1500 Wilderness Gate Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 Phone: 505-988-5516 By Appointment
	svertelstudios@msn.com

The figurative bronze work of Susanne Vertel incorporates both spiritual and aesthetic elements into a synthesis of personal vision that has won her critical acclaim from both peers and collectors. Vertel believes that the figure is a vehicle for expressing the underlying and often unconscious deeper focus of the mundane activities of everyday life. Although her representational work occasionally makes use of the male image, her focus is often the many faces of woman. From her austere Russian "Babushka" series to her graceful and aesthetic nudes, there is a thread of continuity, a going-within, a peacefulness that permeates much of her work and seems to touch an inner emotional space within the viewer.

Vertel's work has won awards from prestigious New York shows and numerous commissions. She was recently awarded a commission for a lifesize sculpture for the National Park Service, currently installed in Yellowstone National Park. She was honored by being invited to the White House to witness President Clinton award a smaller version of her sculpture as a lifetime achievement award to a retiring Park Ranger. A monumental version of her "Babushkas" was commissioned by a private collector to sit in front of a 20 foot sculpture of Lenin which came from the Red Square in Moscow.

Vertel resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Image: © Susanne Vertel
"Wedding Kimono", Bronze
25" x 12" x 11" Ed. 35
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Image: © Susanne Vertel
"Chardonnay", Bronze
27" high / Ed. 36
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Image: © Susanne Vertel
"Cabernet", Bronze
28.5" x 13" x 7.5" Ed. 35
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Image: © Susanne Vertel
"Somewhere in Time", Bronze
28" x 20" x20" Ed. 35
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Image: © Susanne Vertel
"Christ in the Wilderness", Bronze
13" x 13.5" x 10.5" Ed.50
24" x 22" x 19" Ed.35
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Image: © Susanne Vertel
"Windsong", Bronze
7' high above natural stone
Lifesize / Ed. 20
Click image to enlarge (34K)

Image: © Susanne Vertel
"Nature's Child", Bronze
5'5" high on 12" base
Lifesize / Ed. 35
Click image to enlarge (16K)

Represented by
Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art Santa Fe, NM
Exposures Gallery, Sedona, AZ
The Bee Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Weatherburn Gallery, Naples, FL

Education
1973 American Academy of Art, Chicago
1977 Northwestern University
1978 U.C. Berkley, B.A.
1986 California college of Arts and Crafts
1988 Scottsdale Artists' School; studied with Glenna Goodacre, Bruno Lucchesi, George Lundeen and Ed Fraughton.

Exhibitions
2005 Group Show, Ventana Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2004 Three Person Show, Ventana Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2002 National Sculpture Society Juried Show, New York, NY 2000 One-woman show, Downey Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2000 National Sculpture Society Juried Show, Brookgreen Gardens, NC 2000 National Sculpture Society Juried Show, New York City, NY 2000 American Women Artists Invitational, Sorrento, Italy 1999 American Women Artists Invitational, Taos, NM 1999 Exposures Gallery of the West, Sedona, AZ 1998 Sedona Sculpture Walk, Sedona, AZ 1997 "The Nude in Fine Art," Vanier Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ 1996 Western Academy of Women Artist Charter Member Show 1995 "The Nude in Fine Art," Vanier Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ 1994 "The Nude in Fine Art," Vanier and Roberts Gallery 1993 "Strokes of Genius," Scottsdale Art School, Scottsdale, AZ 1992 79th Allied Artist of America, New York 1992 5th Annual Sedona Sculpture Walk 1991 "Sculpture in the Park," Loveland, CO 1991 Linda McAdoo Gallery Group Show, Santa Fe, NM 1990 Catherine Lorillard Wolf Art Club 1989 "The Best and Brightest" group show, Scottsdale Artists' School 1986-87 California College of the Arts and Crafts
Art Awards
1988 79th Allied Artists of America, New York, NY cash award 1988 Catherine Lorillard Wolf Art Club, New York, NY, cash award
Selected Public and Private Collections
ICA/ICB Corporation, Parsippany, NJ The Dial Corporation, Phoenix, AZ The TOEX Corporation, Nagano, Japan Trammel Crow Corp, Dallas, TX (commissioned by Harland Crow) Jack Pogue and Co. The National Park Service, Washington, D.C. (on site in Yellowstone National Park at the Ranger Museum) Wayne Newton, Las Vegas, NV
Publications
Southwest Art, Feb. 1996 Monumental Sculpture by Todd Wilkingson Art Talk, 1996, 2006 Focus Santa Fe, March 1992 Focus Santa Fe, March 1996

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