Susan Classen Sullivan, Catbox Contemporary / New York

Susan Classen Sullivan
You've Got Eyes in the Back of your Head

September 12 – October 22, 2020

Catbox Contemporary
catboxcontemporary@gmail.com
Ridgewood, NY
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020

You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020
You’ve Got to Have Eyes in the Back of Your Head
ceramic installation comprised of six figurines and three free-standing sculptures
32”x30”x28”
2020

All images courtesy and copyright of the artist and space.

        There was a small dark rock
        little more than a pebble really
        who wanted
        more than anything
        to be a pickle
        to have that green skin
        all shined up and covered with bumps
 
        this rock pined
        with the thought of it
        but knew
        if it could only
        find its way
        into someone’s mouth
 
        that it could be sucked smooth
        maybe to a soft ruby glow
        or at least
        to a hard
        dry yellow
 
        and that
        would be 
        something

Classen Sullivan is based in rural Connecticut. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Northeast at venues including the Aldrich Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the New Britain Museum of Contemporary Art, Real Art Ways and at darkZone. Her work was recently featured in a group show titled “Furies” at Helena Anrather, in NYC. Classen Sullivan has been the recipient of a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Grant, and was selected to be an Aldrich Museum Fellowship Artist. Her work is part of the permanent collection of The New Britain Museum of American Art and a number of private collections.