Susan Bloch is a commission and exhibiting artist. She began her career in glass doing large commissions for architects and individuals. Experimenting with techniques for more than 30 years developed her mastery of glass carving. Commissions ranged from large residential windows, office doors, theaters, to stone walls.
Moving to California in 2004 was a turning point in her life as was her father's critical illness. Both changed the direction of her art. The resulting work questioned the human experience. She works with variations on the face and nature. She expresss healing through breaking and reforming glass.
The content of her work has always been metaphoric. This led to to joining a poetry writing group in early 2019. It stimulated designing with text, words, phrases, cyphers and poems. In Dec 2019 she received a Victor Jacoby Grant & Award through the Humboldt Area Foundation. This advanced her art combining text with sculpture.
Bloch earned her BFA in glass and sculpture from Alfred University in NY. She studied painting at Boston University as well as New York Studio School, both instrumental to her art career. Her work appears in books and publications. She exhibits internationally.
Bloch exhibits in the United States and Europe.
Group shows include :
Sebastapol Center for the Arts: H20 2020 juror Zea Morvitz
Westhaven Center for the Arts, Trinidad, Ca two person show Sept. 2019
Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery , Lafayette, Ca. group glass show opening Feb 7 2019
Glass and Clay Invitational, Healdsburg, Ca; Red House Glass Cone, UK, Morley Gallery, UK;
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, The Richmond Art Center.
She participated in a 3 person invitational glass show at Houghton Gallery, Corning, NY with a 4’2 layer plasma-cut aluminum and glass mandala; and a 2 person show at Biscuit Factory Gallery, New Castle upon Tyne, England. She enjoys creating and modeling glass fashions during Glass Art Society conferences throughout the country.
Education: BFA Alfred University, hot glass & sculpture
Boston University, School of Fine Arts: painting
New York Studio School
She lives in Eureka, Ca.
Selected Commissions 2000 - 2020
Selected Commissions 1990 - 2000
Selected Commissions pre 1990
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Moving to California in 2004 was a turning point in her life as was her father's critical illness. Both changed the direction of her art. The resulting work questioned the human experience. She works with variations on the face and nature. She expresss healing through breaking and reforming glass.
The content of her work has always been metaphoric. This led to to joining a poetry writing group in early 2019. It stimulated designing with text, words, phrases, cyphers and poems. In Dec 2019 she received a Victor Jacoby Grant & Award through the Humboldt Area Foundation. This advanced her art combining text with sculpture.
Bloch earned her BFA in glass and sculpture from Alfred University in NY. She studied painting at Boston University as well as New York Studio School, both instrumental to her art career. Her work appears in books and publications. She exhibits internationally.
Bloch exhibits in the United States and Europe.
Group shows include :
Sebastapol Center for the Arts: H20 2020 juror Zea Morvitz
Westhaven Center for the Arts, Trinidad, Ca two person show Sept. 2019
Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery , Lafayette, Ca. group glass show opening Feb 7 2019
Glass and Clay Invitational, Healdsburg, Ca; Red House Glass Cone, UK, Morley Gallery, UK;
Sebastopol Center for the Arts, The Richmond Art Center.
She participated in a 3 person invitational glass show at Houghton Gallery, Corning, NY with a 4’2 layer plasma-cut aluminum and glass mandala; and a 2 person show at Biscuit Factory Gallery, New Castle upon Tyne, England. She enjoys creating and modeling glass fashions during Glass Art Society conferences throughout the country.
Education: BFA Alfred University, hot glass & sculpture
Boston University, School of Fine Arts: painting
New York Studio School
She lives in Eureka, Ca.
Selected Commissions 2000 - 2020
- carved glass bar feature, Eureka, Ca.
- Creamery District Glass mobile, Arcata, Ca.
- Coleman, glass commission, Ca
- DeLao, etched window, Ca
- Wenger, carved window, Ca
- Traum, etched doors, Ca
- Yue, glass flowers, Ma
- Nesbeitt, glass sculpture, Ma
Selected Commissions 1990 - 2000
- Glass Vine wall art, Germany
- Gloria Gaynor , etched tryptich
- Clemens Center for the Performing Arts, stained & etched glass window
- Ducks Unlimited, NY
- Mike "Magic Shoes" Johnson
- Dedication of Sentiments, blue stone wall, Seneca Falls National Park
Selected Commissions pre 1990
- Frank Sinatra, NY
- Richard Brown, NY
- Charlotte Ford, NY
- Fiorenza Cossotto, opera, Italy
- Bonaldo Giotti, opera, Italy
- Sir Rudolph Bing, general manager, Metropolitan Opera
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