Mixed Grey Murmuration
By Susan Hostetler | 2021, Clay and pigments
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About the Artist:
After earning her fine arts degree in painting, artist Susan Hostetler moved to Friedberg, Germany to set up a hand papermaking mill in 1985. Her work at the mill led to exhibitions at the Gutenberg and Klingspor Museums. After Germany, she moved to Barcelona, and completely changed her palette and content to reflect the light, fauna and flora of the Mediterranean. Whether working in gouache and mixed media on handmade paper or three dimensionally with clay, Hostetler is continually inspired by her natural surroundings.
Hostetler eventually returned to the States, taking residence in a studio in New York, but continued to find inspiration in her travels abroad, namely, Africa, Europe and the South Pacific. Hosteler’s work hangs in many permanent collections, including a site-specific commission for the Federal Reserve Bank, and special commissions for the INOVA Schar Cancer Center, the US Committee for UNIFEM, Four Seasons, Deutsche Bank, Dunn & Bradstreet, Readers Digest, Fidelity Corp, and others. Hostetler was also selected by the US State Department to exhibit work through the Art in Embassies Program, and has shown work through Smithsonian Institution’s SITES traveling exhibition program.
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“Today, in the year 2021, women artists’ sales still make up only 2% of the global market. Despite highly visible efforts to counter the absence of women artists in international museum collections, very little action has been directed toward this jarring discrepancy in emerging to established women artists’ primary survival mechanism: the creative economy.
Further, DC, Maryland, and Virginia artists are working in a deeply engaged local art world that is at the red-hot center of the United States’ political landscape, and yet their voices are largely dismissed by the international art community and press.
The Pierce’s distinctive decision to collect only artwork by women artists who are also local - living, creating and exhibiting in its vicinity - sets a precedent for what it really means to support the arts.”
- Marta Staudinger, Latela Curatorial Director