Suzanne Pastor
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Suzanne Pastor | |
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| Born | November 16, 1952 |
| Education | Northwestern University, Art Institute of Chicago, University of Kassel |
| Known for | Photography |
| Notable work | Glass books, photo-based 3-D works, photography |
| Website | www |
Suzanne Pastor (born 16 November 1952, Chicago, United States) is an artist of German-American descent based in Prague, Czech Republic. She is known for her three-dimensional approach to photography, especially her glass book sculptures[1] that explore text-image combinations, layering of memory and sequencing. Photographs of understated poetic surrealist nature have been hand-colored, ripped, layered, folded, nailed, or combined with fragments from 19th-century photographs, text fragments or other objects.
Education
Born in Oak Park, Illinois shortly after her parents emigrated to the USA from post-war Germany, grew up in the Chicago area, played violin and flute; drawing, painting and photography from age 11. Parents were both chemists; two siblings, a younger brother and older sister.
Northwestern University (1970–75): humanities study with psychology major; courses at Harvard and Cornell universities; work and study at Art Institute of Chicago, where she took her first course in photography under Kenneth Josephson.
George Eastman House (1978–81): in Rochester, NY, organized auction of contemporary photography, directed traveling exhibitions program and picture research.
Europe
University of Kassel (Hochschule für Bildende Kunst GHK Universität - Kassel), Germany (1981-1984): study under Floris Neususs, Klaus Honnef. Worked at renowned Rudolf Kicken Gallery, Cologne (1981-1985), organizing and preparing exhibitions and catalogues (Czech and European modernist photography), portfolio editions, translations, editing; travelled for research of Bauhaus, art fairs and sales to private collectors and museums.
Prague House of Photography (1990-1999): Pastor moved from Germany, where she lived for 10 years, to Prague to become co-founder and first curatorial director of Prague House of Photography (now GHMP), a non-profit independent gallery, where she organized exhibitions of Jaroslav Rossler, Jaromir Funke,[2] Frantisek Drtikol, Vaclav Zykmund,[3] August Sander, Eva Fuka,[4] Barbara Crane, Jindrich Streit, Viktor Kolar, and others, introducing an international program to post-Velvet Revolution Czechoslovakia while promoting Czech contemporary photography there and abroad.[5]
Pastor has conducted workshops (Photography in the Third Dimension) in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands. She has translated and written numerous texts and lectured on Bauhaus and photography,[6] German modernist photography, feminist[7] and Czech avant-garde photography,[8] and is also a collector of Czech photography and photography books.
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