UPCOMING SHOWS

October 5 - October 30, 2009
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Edward Williams Gallery
Hackensack, NJ
Solo Show

November 2009
The Gallery
Mercer County Community College
Trenton, NJ
Group Show

April 27 - May 22, 2010
SOHO20 Gallery
511 West 25th Street
New York NY
Solo Show

Spring 2010
The Paul Robeson Arts Center
The Arts Council of Princeton
Princeton, NJ
Group Show

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ARTIST STATEMENT

My artwork has always focused on structures and patterns found in the natural world. I have worked in many media, but for the last fourteen years I have used photographs to make layered images of water, foliage, and other elements of landscape. Over time, I have become increasingly aware of the destruction of the natural world by man's uncontrolled activities, even in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, where I live in the summer and do much of my work.

Recently, I have added painted or printed marks to the surface of thefinished photographs, to introduce the idea of the disturbance ofnature. These visual elements indicate invasion and encroachment. They add another level of meaning and tension to the images, which arecollectively called "Turning on Nature".

For the last three years I have photographed the waterways and harbors around Manhattan from a small airplane. In my current exhibit I present photographs of a graveyard of ancient rusted ships along the shore of Staten Island.

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ABOUT

After graduating from Vassar College, Susan Hockaday continued her education at the Pratt Graphics Center in New York (etching), The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and Princeton University(photography). She studied papermaking at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, in Maine. She has lived in Holland and worked at the Amsterdam Graphics Atelier. While living in England in 1982, and lecturing in Japan and China, she developed her interest in papermaking.

She has won fellowships from the New Jersey State Council of the the Arts, and won the W.K.Rose Fellowship from Vassar College in 1974. Ms Hockaday has exhibited widely, in more than 25 solo exhibitions. Her work is in many public and private collections, including that of Princeton University.