Collection: Susan Pear Meisel Artist Biography and Art Gallery Collection

Susan Pear Meisel is an American Artist and Author born 1947 in New Tork City where she still lives and works. She studied at the Art Students League, the School of Visual Arts, Parsons School of design, and the Museum of Modern Art. She has also studied abroad at the University of Florence. Her paintings are active in line and color, and which maintain that same relationship into the printed image. Whether through silkscreen, serigraphy or lithography, the inked hues carry their tonalities and vibrancy to the surface of the paper. Susan Pear Meisel evolves out of the tradition on Maurice Prendergast, Raoul Dufy, and Red Grooms in the portrayal of group scenes that are then incorporated into the aura of a Fragonard garden. The layering of multiple colors builds up a ground pattern that engages with one another in a vibrancy of color. In the earlier prints, the colors are filled with variations of yellows and greens that converse with pinks, reds, and blues on various street scenes such as in her painting Balducci's (1970). The Compliments of red pitted against green, blue vibrating with orange intensity and active the image in Changing of the Guard (1970) and Spanish Steps (1970). Susan Pear Meisel was commissioned to create Bill Clinton's 1996 Presidential Campaign Poster.

Susan Pear Meisel works are represented in Public collections of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT, Library of Congress and the Erie Museum, PA. One-woman shows include The Greenwich Gallery, New York City, 1969, The Fine Arts Gallery of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, 1970, The Wickersham Gallery, New York City, 1970, Meisel Gallery, New York City, 1970, 72, The Golden Door Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1971, The Nebraska Gallery, Omaha, 1971, Henri Bendel, New York City, 1971, Galerie Amalie, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Virgin Islands, 1972, Bay Harbor Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, 1972, Washington International Art Fair, 1976, 77, 79, Galerie Le Portail, Heidelberg, West Germany, 1976, Transworld Art, New York City, 1977, Senans Gallery, Basel, Switzerland, 1978, L'Orangerie, Cologne, West Germany, 1978, Tel Aviv International Art Fair, 1978, Royce Galleries, Denver, 1979, Union College, Cranford, New Jersey, 1980, The Arts & Crafts Center, Pittsburgh, 1980, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York City, 1980, Fort Wayne (Indiana) Museum of Art, 1980, New York Art Fair, 1980, Lizan-Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York, 1997. Group exhibitions include Javic Art Limited, Ellenville, New York, 1982, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, 1982, Central Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 1983, Traveling Show, Japan, 1983, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York City, 1983, 86, 88, 96, Museum of Art, Lafayette, Indiana, 1984, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, 1985, Columbus (Ohio) Museum Art, 1985-1996, Canton (Ohio) Art Institute, 1986, H.B.O., Incorporated, New York York City, 1986. United States ambassadors residences exhibitions Mauricio, Solaun, Managua, Nicaragua, Syria, The Hague, The Netherlands, Geneva, Tunisia, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Reykjavik, Iceland, Senegal, Ecuador, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Malta, Morocco, The Congo, Algeria, Bolivia, Poland, Dar es Saleem, Tanzania, Mali, among others. Susan Pear Meisel is also represented in permanent collections including Sony Corporation, Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Library. Of Congress, Washington, University Illinois Hospital, Chicago, University Illinois Medical School, Excelsior Hotel, Rome, American Museum Contemporary Art, Richfield, Connecticut, American Embassy, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, United States Department of State, Washington, Greater Lafayette (Indiana) Museum Art, Alfredo Santos Gallery, Mexico City, also private collections in Austria, England and Sweden.

Susan Pear Meisel works as an author include: Susan Pear Meisel-10 years of Printmaking, 1980, (with others) The Complete Guide to Photo Realist Printmaking, 1978, co-author: Susan Pear Meisel The Hampton Behind The Hedges, 2000. She is also a contributor illustrations to Art in Embassies Collection, 1983, Truman Hall, 1985, Art in the United States Embassy in Ecuador, 1986, as well as a contributor articles to professional journals