Susan Hall
"A Joyful Journey of the Spirit."

Susan Hall's work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in major galleries and museums throughout the United States. She has received fellowships from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, a Pollock-Krasner Grant and two National Endowment for the Arts awards.

Her work is included in many public and corporate collections including the Whitney Museum, that National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Art. She has been on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has taught at many other colleges and universities including Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Texas, and the San Francisco Art Institute.

Early in her career, Susan Hall's feminist portraits gave way to mural-sized, air-brushed cityscapes before evolving into the landscape that she devotes herself to today. After more than 20 highly successful years in the New York art world, Susan Hall began to feel disconnected from the community as gentrification swept through her lower Manhattan neighborhood.

Ten years ago she returned to her native Point Reyes, California. With her partner, Steve McKinney, she lives and works in refurbished cabin not far from the lighthouse where she grew up. It was from that lighthouse that her father, a radio technician for AT&T on the Point Reyes peninsula, received and relayed the news of Pearl Harbor and later, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Understanding Susan Hall's attitude about painting is perhaps the most telling way to appreciate her work. She says of her environment: "Point Reyes is the center of my painting life. This is hard to explain in words; it would be a little like taking the wings off a butterfly to see how it flew. I find this landscape, its weather, and its inhabitants deep and provocative, filled with soul, and I have been held captive by it my entire life."

The intimate scale of her latest works invites the viewer to share in this deep vision which, in her words, is "to go deeper into the substance of a given form until it dissolves into light and space."

The gallery also features Susan Hall's ceramics and her book: "Painting Point Reyes."

"Pierce Point Ranch"



"Hidden Ranch #2"



"White Horse in the Meadow"



"Hazy Day"



"Bolinas Night Scene"



"Marshland"

"Moon and Fog"



"Olio d'Oliva (#781)"



"J'aime mon Jardin (#557)"



"Olio d'Oliva (#758)"

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