Susan Erony
Susan Erony attended Rhode Island School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art, Lesley University, and the University for Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, Holland. Her artwork has focused primarily on history and the human condition, and most recently on the creation of safe visual spaces in a troubling world. Erony has consulted to organizations on issues of art and society, taught and lectured on both art history and art practice, and organized exhibitions on subjects ranging from the use of artistic devices in creating prejudice to those showcasing the work of one artist. She is currently Visual Artist in Residence for the Gloucester Writers Center.
Videos
A Conversation with Susan Erony
November 6, 2016 · 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
A conversation with Susan Erony about her artistic process and recent work on the occasion of her solo exhibition Towers and Other Thoughts.
Past Solo Exhibitions with Matthew Swift Gallery
Susan Erony: American Trouble
September 21, 2024 – November 10, 2024
A solo of exhibition of 8 new and selected mixed media works by Susan Erony.
Susan Erony: Lost in America
October 27, 2018 – November 25, 2018
An exhibition of new mixed media paintings by Susan Erony whicih explore the the idea of visual beauty itself as both a refuge and a demand for the mind’s attention.
Susan Erony: Towers and Other Thoughts
October 29, 2016 – November 27, 2016
An exhibition of mixed media paintings by Susan Erony having motifs of towers and human hands.
Susan Erony: Review
September 5, 2014 – October 5, 2014
An exhibition of Susan Erony’s art of testimony, remembrance, and affirmation of the human capacity for good and evil, Review reintroduces collectors and the public to the artist’s disciplined and forceful body of work from 1993 to the present, and to her themes of inhumanity and displacement, the solace and refuge of art, and the interplay of innocence, knowing, and not wanting to know.
Past Group Exhibitions with Matthew Swift Gallery
One Life / Summer 2024
June 1, 2024 – September 14, 2024
A continuation and evolution of the exhibition One Life.
One Life
March 17, 2024 – May 31, 2024
An exhibition curated with the inspirations of dance, plant life, and Coleridge's poem “The Eolian Harp.”
MMA 67
September 9, 2023 – October 23, 2023
Your favorite mixed media artists squaring off in an aggregate of rectangles.
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Art Wynwood 2023
February 16, 2023 · 6:00 pm – February 19, 2023 · 6:00 pm
Matthew Swift Gallery will be exhibiting at the Art Wynwood 2023 art fair in Miami, Florida.
Growth
December 1, 2022 – January 16, 2023
An evolution from the previous Right Here on Paper, bringing in art showing trees and flowers or otherwise suggesting growth.
Explicit Color
July 1, 2022 – August 1, 2022
An exhibition of paintings and sculpture with explicit color: most titles name a color.
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Art Miami 2021
November 30, 2021 – December 5, 2021
Matthew Swift Gallery will show work by Peter Lyons, Susan Erony, Erika Marquardt, Timothy Harney, Gabrielle Barzaghi, Aron Leaman, Diane Ayott, Ruth Mordecai, and Kim Radochia.
Still Figuring It Out: Human Figures and ?
June 24, 2021 – August 2, 2021
A group exhibition of art representing the human figure.
Art Miami 2020
December 1, 2020 – December 20, 2020
Matthew Swift Gallery is participating in the 2020 edition of the prestigious Art Miami fair, which is exclusively online at Artsy.net this year.
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2020
January 9, 2020 – January 12, 2020
Matthew Swift Gallery will show work by gallery artists at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary.
New Series Two
October 10, 2019 – November 18, 2019
Signature works of art by gallery and guest artists, in harmonious groupings, but without an express theme.
Organic Complications
April 13, 2019 – May 27, 2019
An exhibition exploring the complex, evolving living world & the question of our human place in it.
Facing Five Years
January 17, 2019 – March 31, 2019
A program of exhibitions and events revisiting Trident Gallery’s first half-decade years and assaying the next.
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2019
January 10, 2019 – January 13, 2019
Trident Gallery showed work by Peter Lyons, Susan Erony, Ed Touchette, and Diane Ayott at the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary art fair in West Palm Beach, Florida.
SCOPE Miami Beach 2018
December 4, 2018 · 12:00 pm – December 9, 2018 · 8:00 pm
Trident Gallery exhibited work by Peter Lyons, Susan Erony, Diane Ayott, Gabrielle Barzaghi, and Ed Touchette at the 2018 SCOPE Miami Beach art fair.
AD20/21 2017
April 6, 2017 – April 9, 2017
Trident Gallery showed works on paper by Pamela Ellis Hawkes, Zygmund Jankowski, Ruth Mordecai, Diane Ayott, and Susan Erony at the 2016 AD20/21 art fair.
The Political Body
March 31, 2017 – April 30, 2017
An exhibition of art on the political dimensions of the body, which opens with a performance and a panel discussion.
A Time for Blue
January 20, 2017 – March 26, 2017
A themed exhibition of art selected by Director Matthew Swift.
In the Time We Have
March 12, 2016 – April 24, 2016
An exhibition of new and selected works of art reflecting themes of time, ephemerality, and maturity.
Beyond Real: Contemporary Landscapes
August 15, 2015 – September 13, 2015
A group exhibition offering more than fifty paintings, drawings, photographs, and mixed media works in the genre of landscape, chosen to represent a diversity of artistic approaches.
Spring Improvisations
March 20, 2015 – May 31, 2015
During Spring Improvisations, special offerings and recent work by gallery artists will be on display and may change frequently and improvisationally. Stop into the gallery regularly to see new work and tell the Director what you’d like to see next.
The Art of Natural History
January 29, 2015 – March 15, 2015
An exhibition reprising last year’s winter partnership with the Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon and curated with two organizing ideas: Charles Darwin’s famous closing paragraph of On The Origin of Species, and the idea that the art in the exhibition should straddle the boundary between documentation and interpretation of the natural world.
Boston International Fine Art Show, 2014
November 13, 2014 – November 16, 2014
Trident Gallery showed works by gallery artists at the Boston International Fine Art Show in 2014.
Harbortown 2014
July 3, 2014 – July 27, 2014
An exhibition celebrating Gloucester Harbor and the area’s legacy of more than 150 years of excellence in the visual arts, displaying works of art by eighteen Cape Ann artists, including four guest artists, and introducing Gloucester artist Ed Touchette, now represented by Trident Gallery.
Winter Meditations
January 17, 2014 – March 16, 2014
A trans-discipline, evolving, multi-media art experience—an exhibition of visual art and a coordinated series of performances evolving with the season from mid-winter into spring.
Three Artists in Dialogue with the Past
October 18, 2013 – November 24, 2013
An exhibition of works by three contemporary artists who engage the imagery and ideas of the mid-twentieth century and of earlier eras.
Home: The Inaugural Exhibition
August 30, 2013 – October 14, 2013
Trident Gallery's inaugural exhibition shows the work of twelve artists representing the excellence and variety of contemporary fine art on Cape Ann. Gallery Director Dr. Matthew Swift has assembled 39 works of art that explore ideas of “home.”
Old News
ReSeeding the City: Ethnobotany in the Urban
October 26, 2019 – November 27, 2019
A Providence Biennial exhibition at the Rhode Island State House, curated by Judith Tolnick Champa, includes works by Susan Erony and Gabrielle Barzaghi.