Artist Statement
I am a mixed-media artist based in upstate New York. I create work in painting, collage, ceramics, and animation. My work explores relationships and communication through shifts in scale, form, and material. I examine how perception shapes human connection. Using semi-abstract figures interwoven with landscape imagery, I create densely layered compositions marked by vibrant color and dreamlike logic. Rearranged bodies, shifting scales, and landscapes with human qualities inhabit fluid, unsettled spaces where identity remains unstable and meaning is in flux. These works unfold slowly, inviting sustained looking and reflection.
My process often begins in a sketchbook with recognizable forms—faces, figures, and landscapes, sometimes drawn from direct observation. In the studio, these forms evolve through layering, revision, and experimentation. They gradually shift from the familiar toward the imagined. Embracing chance, through the unpredictability of ceramic glazes, natural materials, and the physical qualities of paint and clay, I maintain a dialogue between intention and accident. Recent projects have expanded into installation and stop-motion animation, allowing imagery and form to move fluidly between dimensions and media. By altering scale, context, and form, I construct fluid realities in which the familiar continually shifts into the imagined, exposing the uncertainty beneath perception.
CV
Linda Suskind-Kosmer
@suskindkosmer
lindasuskind-kosmer.com
Born 1955, New York
Lives and works in Cooperstown, NY
Education
1977 BFA University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1977
1976 Tyler School of Art, Rome Italy 1976
2020-24 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Residencies
2024 Chateau D’Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France
1985 Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2026 SEEC, Schoharie, Ceramic Tales, Two person Exhibition
2018 CANO Oneonta
2014 The Word and Image Gallery, Treadwell, NY
2013 Hathaway Gallery at CANO, Oneonta, NY
2012 The Smithy-Pioneer Gallery, Cooperstown, NY
1996 28 North Gallery, NY, NY
1996 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibition
2026 Cooperstown Art Association, National Juried Show
2026 The Smithy Gallery, Cooperstown, A Square Deal
2026. Cooperstown Art Association, Regional Juried show
2025 Cooperstown Art Association, 90th Annual National Juried Exhibition
2025 The Sketchbook Gallery, Saugerites, NY “Sketchbooks:Working Out Ideas”
2025. Cooperstown Art Association, “Side by Side: The Figure Explored”
2025 Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea, NY “Lust for Rust”- online exhibition
2024 Women’s Work Art, Poughkeepsie, NY “Spirit of the Season”
2023 Cooperstown Art Association Regional Juried Show 2023
2022 Flat File Gallery online Exhibition 2022
2022 Art Garage, Cooperstown, “The Colors Green”
2022 Cooperstown Art Association, National Juried Exhibition,
Proctor Prize
2021 CANO, Oneonta NY, “Portrait Exposed”, two person juried show
2021 Carter Burden Gallery, Chelsea NY, Looking Forward, National
2021 Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea, NY, “Drawn to Paper”, National Juried
2021 The Smithy, Cooperstown, “Water”
2021 Cooperstown Art Association, National Juried Exhibition
2020 Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, NY, “Darkest Before Dawn”
2020 Cooperstown Art Association National Juried Exhibition, Juror
Emma Golden, Frank P Whiting Memorial Prize
2018 Cherry Branch Gallery, NY “Collaborations”
2018 CANO, Oneonta, NY
2018 Cherry Branch Gallery, NY 10 x 10 Group show
2017 ValeRina Gallerina + Greg, Darkness, Ridgewood, Queens
2017 Cherry Branch Gallery, Cherry Valley, NY “Artistic Reflections”
2017 Cherry Branch Gallery, Cherry Valley, NY “And the Children
Spoke”
2017 Cooperstown Art Assoc. National Juried show, Winsor Newton
Juror, Larry Brown
2017 Cherry Branch Gallery, NY “10 x 10”
2016 Cherry Branch Gallery, “The Painter’s Reality”
2015 Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY “Conversation Pieces”
2011 Window Gallery at 1 Main Street in Dumbo. Brooklyn, NY
2009 The Smithy-Pioneer, Cooperstown, NY.
2008 The Smithy-Pioneer “The Landscape Show” Cooperstown, NY.
1999 Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, NYC, “Framed, the Artist-Framer”
1996 Gallery 53 Artworks Cooperstown, NY, “Harvest Show”
1985 Barrett House/Dutchess County Art. Assoc.”Hudson Valley ‘85”
Curator, Barbara Haskell, Whitney Museum
1985 Small Works ’85, New York University