Susan Bloch
Eureka, CA
Susan Bloch is a glass artist living on the Northern California coast. She uses light and color to reveal the connection of nature and the human spirit.
MessageSusan Bloch
Susan Bloch is a commission and exhibiting artist. She began her career in glass doing large commissions for architects and individuals. Experience on varied projects with a wide array of techniques and for more than 30 years developed her mastery of glass carving. Commissions ranged from large residential windows, office doors, theaters, to stone walls.
Moving to California in 2004 was a turning point in her life as was her father's critical illness. Both changed the direction of her art. The resulting work questioned the human experience. She works with variations on the face and nature. She expresses healing through breaking and reforming glass.
The content of her work has always been metaphoric. This led to to joining a poetry writing group in early 2019. It stimulated designing with text, words, phrases, cyphers and poems. In Dec 2019 she received a Victor Jacoby Grant & Award through the Humboldt Area Foundation. This advanced her art combining text with sculpture.
Bloch earned her BFA in glass and sculpture from Alfred University in NY. She studied painting at Boston University as well as New York Studio School, both instrumental to her art career. Her work appears in books and publications. She exhibits internationally.
Selected Commissions:
• Creamery District, glass mobile
• Coleman, glass commission, Ca
• DeLao, etched window, Ca
• Wenger, carved window, Ca
• Traum, etched doors, Ca
• Nesbeitt, glass sculpture, Ma
• Glass Vine wall art, Germany
• Gloria Gaynor , etched tryptych
• Clemens Center for the Performing Arts
Grants-Awards-Recognition
2023 O'hanlon Center for the Arts Women Making their Mark Mark jurors Donna Seager & Suzanne Gray
2021 Re Emergent: Artist Grant & Group Exhibition Morris Graves Museum/Humboldt Arts Council
2020 H20 Sebastapol Center for the Arts juror Zea Morvitz
2019 Victor Jacoby Grant, Humboldt Area Foundation
2019 Westhaven Center for the Arts, Trinidad, Ca. two-person show
2019 Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, Lafayette, Ca. group glass show
2017 City of Brea Gallery; 4th Annual Clay & Glass Biennial
2015 Healdsburg Center for the Arts Glass & Clay Invitational June 11th – Aug. 16th
2015 Red House Glass Cone Contemporary International Engraved Glass 18 May - 26 June 2015
2014 Sebastapol Center for the Arts, Beasties! Juried Exhibition Oct. 30 – Dec. 6
2014 Morley Gallery, London group show INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENGRAVED GLASS
2014 Ratification - Craft Member of Guild of Glass Engravers
2012 Juried as Exhibiting Member of Clay and Glass Artists
2013 Creamery District Public Art Grant – glass mobile Zephyr
2006 2nd place glass for “Upright Lei” "Best of California", Artists book series
Kennedy Publishing
2003 Artists Crossroads Grant: Arts of the Southern Finger Lakes
funded by NY State Council on the Arts
1987-1988 RULE-leadership grant, in association with Penn State University
1977 Damini Foundation Award for Oils and Watercolors
Special Projects:
2012 Glass dress/mobile Toledo, Ohio
2004 Glass Fashion Show: Ribbon Glass Dress, New Orleans
2003-1996 Woman of the Year Award Sculptures
2002 Wearable Glass Flower Gown on display in the Corning Museum of Glass Art Market
2001 The Rising of the Crystal Equinox, Wearable Glass flower sculpture dress: 4’6” x 5’ x 5’ Corning, NY
2000 Women’s Rights Wall: etched and inlaid the Declaration of Sentiments in 100’ bluestone wall 1992 1991 Neon Tree: 14’x 12’x 1992 12’ steel/neon tubes. Neon on the Bridge Sculpture Show, Corning, NY.
Selected Shows:
2019: Westhaven Gallery, Trinidad, CA Sept, 2019
2019 Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery ACGA group show Feb 7 - March 4
2017 City of Brea Art Gallery Clay and Glass show
2015 Healdsburg Center for the Arts Glass & Clay Invitational June 11th – Aug. 16th
2015 Red House Glass Cone Contemporary International Engraved Glass 18 May - 26 June 2015 Stourbridge, UK
2014 Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Beasties! Juried Exhibition Oct. 30 – Dec. 6
2014 Morley Gallery, London (pending) group show INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENGRAVED GLASS
2014 Redwood Art Association group shows
2013 Old Town Art Gallery Guest Artist
2013 Richmond Art Center group show
2012 Richmond Art Center group show
2011 Houghton Gallery, 3 person invitational show
2011 Biscuit Factory, New Castle upon Tyne 2 person show
2010 Eureka Inn One person show
2010 Westhaven Center for the Arts Three Person show
2009 Arcata Marsh Gallery, 3 person show “Three Visions”
2007 Kronos gallery, group show, Eureka, California
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