Curriculum Vitae

 

Telephone: (805) 618-0354

e-mail: hazard.art@gmail.com

www.hazardassemblages.com

 

Born Santa Barbara, California 1948

University of California, Santa Barbara, Bachelor of Arts, 1990

 

2011

· Strait Art Show Invitational, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, Washington

· Webster’s Woods Outdoor Sculpture Park, installation, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, Washington

 

2010    

· Port Townsend Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington

· CVG 3rd Annual Juried Show, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, Washington

· Strait Art Show Invitational, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, Washington

 

2009    

· CVG 2nd Annual Juried Show, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, Washington

· Northwind Arts Alliance Small Expressions Juried Show, Port Townsend, Washington

 

2008-2006

· Re-Art ’08, Gallery Madera Juried Show, Tacoma, Washington

· 1st Annual Collective Visions Gallery Juried Show, Bremerton, Washington

· Northwind Arts Alliance Small Expressions Juried Show, Port Townsend, Washington

· Arts Council of Snohomish County Art of Recycling Juried Show

· Northwind Arts Alliance Abstract Images Juried Show, Port Townsend, Washington

· The Art of Recycling Invitational Group Show, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, Washington

 

2005-1994

· Group and solo painting shows in United States and Ireland

 

1994

· Linenhall Fine Arts Centre “Blue” Invitational Show, Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland

 

1993-1992

· Foxford Visitor’s Center Invitational, Foxford, County Mayo, Ireland

· Claremorris Fine Art Exhibition, Claremorris, County Mayo, Ireland

· Church Gallery Invitational Show, Dublin, Ireland

· United States Embassy Invitational Exhibit for U.S. Citizens abroad, Dublin, Ireland

 

Organizations:

· Art Port Townsend Art Studio Tour Chair, Port Townsend, Washington, 2007-2010

· President of the Board, Northwind Arts Alliance, Port Townsend, Washington 2010

· Board Member, Northwind Arts Alliance, 2005-2009

· President, Port Townsend Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington 2010-2011

· Board member, Port Townsend Gallery, Port Townsend, Washington 2006-2008

· Founding member and co-organizer, Tir Sailte’ Outdoor Sculpture Trail, North County Mayo, Ireland 1993

 

Biography

Susan Hazard is a fourth-generation Santa Barbara native. Her interest in art began at an early age and has been expressed through multiple mediums, including assemblage sculpture. Susan’s formal education was interspersed through a full-time working career, with classes at Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara Art Institute (defunct), San Francisco Art Institute and a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1990.

Susan’s interest in assemblage sculptures began in 1990 and have continued to the present. The main focus of her work is social and cultural commentary, including a strong interest in the feminist movement since the 1970s. Her pieces are mostly recycled, rescued, found and repurposed materials, and utilize various methods of construction.

White paint is a pervasive material used in the assemblage pieces, used to obscure the immediate identification of the parts of the assemblage sculpture. Painting the piece allows the whole piece to be seen first; then the disparate parts. The symbolism of the pieces is conveyed through their immediate appearance, but also through the details. Suitcases are symbolic of travel and enclosure. Wedding dresses are highly evocative in their symbolism, expressing unfulfilled hopes, dreams and expectations. Nails and other sharp objects denote pain and sacrifice. Women’s wigs are vanity; wheels are movement and freedom, salt is sadness. A written explanation usually accompanies the assemblage, to further allow the viewer to fully understand the meaning of the sculpture symbolism.

Current projects in the process of being finished are table-top shrines and reliquaries utilizing found black and white photographs gleaned from thrift-store disassembled albums and a room installation of wedding dress jellyfish. A handbag wall is also in the planning and accumulation stage.  Future projects in the planning stage, including installations of group figures, wall installations, and table shrines.

 

 

 

Susan Hazard

Biography & Curriculum Vitae