SUSAN HANNON

EDUCATION

National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal, Quebec
Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 “21st Century Angels (Retrospective)”, bG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2005 “My Big Heart”, Aroma Gallery, Studio City, CA

2003 “Hearts & Flowers”, Orlando Gallery, Tarzana, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 “Home/Front”, Shoebox Productions, Los Angeles, CA (online)

2020 “10th Annual Botanicals”, Light Space and Time Gallery (online)

2019 “Enough”, Neutra Gallery and Museum, Silverlake, CA

2019 “10 Year Anniversary”, bG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2019 “Inaugural Opening”, bG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2019 “Unfettered”, Ave 50 Gallery, Highland Park, CA

2019 “Art Unites”, Gallery 800, Art Directors Guild, North Hollywood, CA

2018 “Black and White”, Neutra Gallery and Museum, Silverlake, CA

2018 “Human Rights/Civil Rights”, Neutra Gallery and Museum, Silverlake, CA

2018 “Works on Paper”, Brand 46, Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA

2017 “Ocean of Memories”, Taiwan Academy, Westwood, CA

2016 “Works on Paper/Brand 44”, Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA

2015 “Unusual Mediums”, bG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2012 “E.N.U.F. Art Event”, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “The Year of the Chimera 6.3”, Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2011 Alexi Allen Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2004 Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Orlando Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

AWARDS

2020 “10th Annual Botanicals”, 3rd Place, 3-Dimensional, Space Light and Time Gallery

2020 “10th Annual Botanicals”, Special Recognition, 3-Dimensional, Space Light and Time Gallery

2016 “Robert Brown Award”, “Works on Paper/Brand 44”, Brand Library Center, Glendale, CA

PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

“Reading Heresy” (1st Edition), by Gregory Bernard Erickson, De Gruyter, 2017

Art in America, “Sightlines” by Stephin Merritt, April, 2013
Huffington Post, “Susan Hannon In ‘The Year of The Chimera 6.3’ at Glass Garage Gallery Los Angeles,” August 19, 2011
Victoria Magazine, “Rituals,” by Sunday Hendrickson, 1996
VictoriaMagazine, “Favorite Things,” by Sunday Hendrickson, 1994

I am a Canadian-born sculptor, working in clay, inks, oils, and paper.

My most recent body of work is entitled "You Get Me Closer to God," which is a quote from the Nine Inch Nails song "Closer." The series is composed of sculptures made of paper feathers resembling vast wings. The feathers are cut and hand-wired from the pages of antique and vintage Bibles in various languages and scripts, including from 1840s France, Civil War-era America, and Depression-era America. These books were cried on, prayed over, preached with, and entrusted with family stories and secrets. They have been marinated in generations of rich human emotion. There are few raw materials that come pre-soaked with more emotional content.

The wings also serve as a metaphor for their medium. They make explicit the resurrection theme, inherent in all found-media sculpture, of making something new out of something discarded. Further, destruction of a "holy" book is usually considered blasphemy but I wanted to render the destruction here as an act of transformation and beauty.

Other pieces in the series explore texts other than Bibles. For example, with "You Get Me Closer to God No. 5," I use the white pages of a telephone book. I wanted to take the anonymous names in a text with such fleeting life as a phone book and turn them into a permanent work, a memorial to nothingness.