Susan Isaacs

March 12, 2021 by Susan Isaacs

Diane Burko talks about flying with James Turrell, becoming a climate activist, and current work

Artblog contributor Susan Isaacs connects with climate art activist Diane Burko in a Q&A conversation about climate activism, art historical influences, and Diane’s current artwork and upcoming exhibitions.

January 12, 2021 by Susan Isaacs

Contemporary art mingles with vintage party dresses at Towson University’s ‘All Night Party’

Co-curators J. Susan Isaacs and Erin Lehman write an essay about their exhibition “All Night Party,” which places contemporary works in conversation with 20th century party dresses, drawing similarities between America’s political climate then and now.

September 30, 2020 by Susan Isaacs

Dan Keplinger talks about art, his life-long activism and ‘King Gimp’ his Oscar-winning movie

Susan Isaacs interviews Dan Keplinger, her former student and the subject and co-creator of the film “King Gimp,” which observes Dan’s life as an artist with Cerebral Palsy.

March 16, 2020 by Susan Isaacs

Wading into water quality, Stacy Levy’s Collected Watershed at Towson University

Susan Isaacs reviews Stavy Levy’s exhibition Collected Watershed, which is currently installed at the Center for the Arts Gallery at Towson University. Though the gallery is currently closed due to COVID-19, the show’s end date has been extended to April 25, 2020, and the show is presumed to re-open before then.

January 4, 2020 by Susan Isaacs

A review in two cities, Betye Saar at MoMA and Melvin Edwards at BMA

Artblog contributor Susan Isaacs reviews two exhibitions: “The Legends of Black Girl’s Window” at Museum of Modern Art in New York City, closing January 4, 2020, and “Crossroads” at Baltimore Museum of Art, closing January 12, 2020.

December 9, 2019 by Susan Isaacs

Black abstract art takes center stage in ‘Generations’ at Baltimore Museum of Art

Artblog contributor Susan Isaacs reports back from ‘Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art’ at the Baltimore Museum of Art, which closes on January 19, 2020.

November 23, 2019 by Susan Isaacs

A tale of two biennales, witnessing global art in Venice and Jerusalem

Artblog contributor Susan Isaacs shares her experiences with traveling to the biennales in Venice and Jerusalem.

July 12, 2019 by Susan Isaacs

Activist and ceramicist Roberto Lugo’s striking political installation at The Walters Museum

Susan Isaacs visits The Walters Art Museum Baltimore and reviews “Roberto Lugo at 1 West.”

June 5, 2019 by Susan Isaacs

Twentieth annual ‘5 into 1’ exhibit highlights grads of five local art colleges and universities

Susan Isaac visits the ‘5 into 1’ exhibit and sees multidisciplinary art by graduate artists from 5 local art programs.

April 28, 2019 by Susan Isaacs

Surrealist anxiety about war, dictators and refugees in ‘Monsters and Myths’ at Baltimore Museum of Art is topical today

Susan Isaacs says the anxiety present in the works in “Monsters and Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s” at the Baltimore Museum of Art speaks to our times.

March 27, 2019 by Susan Isaacs

Works by (mostly) women, sensual, whimsical, powerful, in ‘Intimate Immensity’ at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Guest writer Susan Isaacs, a noted art historian, curator and educator, writes of a show of abstract sculpture curated by Alexis Granwell at PAFA. Isaacs speaks with Granwell about the exhibit, her curating and her art practice and says the exhibition of abstract works engages through its sensual materiality.