Susan Himmel is an Albany based watercolorist and mixed media painter who has been creating art in one form or another all her life. Himmel's original focus was on three dimensional art, primarily pottery, jewelry, and wall hangings until 2006. That is when she fell in love with watercolors during a week-long workshop at Kripalu Center called Painting and Yoga in the Berkshires. Himmel immersed herself in drawing and painting classes at IS183 Art School of the Berkshires and in regional workshops over the next few years. Always a keen observer of nature, Himmel finds inspiration for her work in the hill towns, the deep forests, wildflower paths, mountain lakes, river rocks and clouds, as well as in everyday objects. Lately she has been exploring the urban landscape as well.
Himmel attributes painting to changing her life, saying "As a result of my journey as a painter, the way I experience the world has shifted. Painting has become my looking glass, the means of examining life inside and out. Art is alchemy; it changes individual lives and whole communities for the better."
Her work has been featured in solo and group shows in galleries and in non-traditional settings in the Northeast, especially in the Berkshires. Paintings hang in a number of private collections here and abroad.
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Past Exhibitions +
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Fake Landscapes,
NuArts Studios + Gallery Pittsfield, MA October 2018
Spirals
Steven Valenti's Clothing,
Pittsfield, MA August 2016
Botanicals and River Rocks
Unusual Wedding Rings & More,
Pittsfield, MA May 2015
Autumn Alchemy
Whitney Center for the Arts,
Pittsfield, MA September 2014
First Impressions
Senator Downing's Office,
Pittsfield, MA May-June 2009
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
The Arts Center,
Troy, NY 2019
Albany Center Gallery
Albany, NY,
2018
The Arts Center
Troy, NY,
2018
Albany Center Gallery
Albany, NY,
2017
Upstate Artists Guild
Albany, NY,
2016
Albany Center Gallery
Albany, NY,
2015
Good Purpose Gallery
Lee, MA,
2015
Whitney Center for the Arts
Pittsfield, MA,
2015
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts
Pittsfield, MA,
2014 Pop Up Gallery
Side by Side
Nuarts Studios + Gallery,
Pittsfield, MA 2014 Two Person Show
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts
Pittsfield, MA,
2013
Treehouse Gallery
Pittsfield, MA,
Three Person Show 2012
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts
Pittsfield, MA,
2012
Small Works Show, Welles Gallery
Lenox, MA,
2008 and 2010
Housatonic Valley Art League
Sheffield, MA,
2009 and 2010
Becket Arts Center
Becket, MA,
2008
ArtCircus
Storefront Artist Project,
Pittsfield, MA 2008
Housatonic Valley Art League
Sheffield, MA,
2007
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