Susan Himmel

+ + + + UAG Member Member Since: December 3rd, 2015 Page Last Updated: September 29th, 2020 Personal Site: www.susanhimmelart.com + Similar Artists: Joleen Button, Nicolette Callaway, Deb Carpenter, Carol Coogan, Thomas D'Ambrose, Nicole DeSantis, Amelia Fallon, Mary Feeley, AnneMarie Fraley, Lauren George, K.V. Khai, Barbara Klemz, Amanda Klish, Beth Liotta, William Lowder, Elizabeth Maloney, Milton McPherson, Henry C. Meier, AWS, Mitch Messmore, Ann Marie Morin, Kelly Naylor, Rae Nooney, Sarah Petrucci, Ann Roberts, Sarah Schrom, Larry White

Artist Bio +

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.

• 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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