Suzi Gablik

{{Short description|American artist and art critic (1934–2022)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2022}} {{Use American English|date=May 2022}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Suzi Gablik | honorific_suffix = | image = Suzi_Gablik.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = Gablik, photo courtesy of Deborah Solomon | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|09|26}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | baptised =  | death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|05|07|1934|09|26}} | death_place = Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S. | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | education = Black Mountain College; Hunter College, BA | alma_mater = | known_for = art historian, writer, painter | notable_works = ''Has Modernism Failed?'', ''The Reenchantment of Art'' | style = | home_town = | movement = | spouse = | partner = | awards = National Lifetime Achievement Award, Women's Caucus for Art, 2003 | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website =  | module = }}

'''Suzi Gablik''' (September 26, 1934 – May 7, 2022) was an American visual artist, author, art critic, and professor of art history and art criticism.<ref>{{cite web|title=Suzi Gablik – Dictionary of Art Historians|url=https://arthistorians.info/gabliks|website=arthistorians.info|accessdate=September 3, 2016}}</ref> She lived in Blacksburg, Virginia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Resurgence • Author Suzi Gablik|url=http://www.resurgence.org/magazine/author10-Suzi-Gablik.html|website=www.resurgence.org|accessdate=September 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Suzi Gablik|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/suzi-gablik-1707|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum|accessdate=March 29, 2018|language=en}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Gablik was born in New York City on September 26, 1934.<ref name=Greenberger>{{cite news|title=Suzi Gablik, Well-Connected Critic Who Asked Tough Questions, Dies at 87|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/suzi-gablik-dead-1234628437/|first=Alex|last=Greenberger|date=May 12, 2022|access-date=May 12, 2022|magazine=ARTnews}}</ref><ref name=interview>{{cite web|title=Interview with Suzi Gablik|url=http://jari.podbean.com/2009/11/01/interview-with-suzi-gablik/|date=November 1, 2009|accessdate=September 5, 2016|website=jari.podbean.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804114823/http://jari.podbean.com/2009/11/01/interview-with-suzi-gablik/|archivedate=August 4, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her interest in art was piqued after visiting museums in her hometown with her father during her childhood.<ref name=Greenberger/> In 1951, after a summer studying at Black Mountain College, she entered Hunter College where she studied with Robert Motherwell. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1955.<ref name=Greenberger/><ref>{{cite web|title=Suzi Gablik – Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Suzi Gablik|url=http://askart.com/artist/Suzi_Gablik/101594/Suzi_Gablik.aspx|website=askart.com|accessdate=September 4, 2016}}</ref>

As a graduation gift from her parents, she travelled to Europe, but on her return she fell out with her parents over a love affair and had to rely on her own resources. Dollie Chareau, the widow of Pierre Chareau, let her stay in Chareau's studio, and she began working for {{ill|George Wittenborn|de}}, a dealer in art books and small-press publisher as a clerk at Wittenborn's bookstore and assistant with his publishing. This was the beginning of her work in art publishing and art history.<ref name=stieber/>

==Writing career==

Gablik wrote articles for ''Art in America'' (for which she was the London correspondent for fifteen years),<ref name=":0">{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Detailed description of the Suzi Gablik papers, 1954–2014|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/suzi-gablik-papers-16176/more|accessdate=September 5, 2016|website=Archives of American Art|publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref> ''ARTnews'' (1962–1966),<ref name=":0" /> ''Times Literary Supplement'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Suzi Gablik|url=https://www.overdrive.com/creators/85666/suzi-gablik|website=OverDrive|accessdate=September 5, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Gablik|first1=Suzi|title=A Catalogue of Horrors: Suzi Gablik on Edward Kienholz, in 1965 {{!}} ARTnews|url=http://www.artnews.com/2016/08/26/a-catalogue-of-horrors-suzi-gablik-on-edward-kienholz-in-1965/|accessdate=September 3, 2016|work=www.artnews.com}}</ref> and ''The New Criterion'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Gablik – Art and God|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/55986391/Gablik-Art-and-God|website=Scribd|accessdate=September 4, 2016}}</ref> as well as for blogs.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Gablik|first1=Suzi|title=Suzi Gablik|url=http://moncon.greenmuseum.org/papers/gablik.pdf|website=GreenMuseum|accessdate=September 3, 2016}}</ref>

Gablik's first book was ''Pop Art Redefined'', co-authored with art critic John Russell.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Reviews of ''Pop Art Redefined'': *{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/10/26/archives/pop-art-redefined-by-john-russell-and-suzi-gablik-illustrated-240.html|title=Pop Art Redefined|first=Annette|last=Michelson|authorlink= Annette Michelson |date=October 26, 1969}} *{{Cite journal|last=Moffitt|first=John F.|date=1970|title=Review of Pop Art Redefined|jstor=775479|journal=Art Journal|volume=29|issue=3|pages=390–392|doi=10.2307/775479|issn=0004-3249}}</ref> Her other books include: ''Progress in Art'' (1977),<ref>Reviews of ''Progress in Art'': *{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Yes, but is it art?|first=Barbara|last=Rose|authorlink= Barbara Rose|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/26/archives/yes-but-is-it-art-art.html|date=June 26, 1977}} *{{cite journal|last=Pariser|first=David|date=Spring 1983|issue=1|journal=Visual Arts Research|jstor=20715533|pages=41–54|title=The pitfalls of progress: A review and discussion of Gablik's ''Progress in Art''|volume=9}} *{{cite journal|last=Willmott|first=Elizabeth|page=125|journal=The Structurist|title=Review|volume=17|date=January 1977|id={{ProQuest|1297886011}}}} *{{Cite journal|last=Bystryn|first=Marcia H.|date=1978|title=none|jstor=2065013|journal=Contemporary Sociology|volume=7|issue=5|pages=576–577|doi=10.2307/2065013|issn=0094-3061}} *{{Cite journal|last=Dasgupta|first=Gautam|date=1977|title=none|jstor=3245352|journal=Performing Arts Journal|volume=2|issue=2|pages=103–104|doi=10.2307/3245352|issn=0735-8393}} *{{Cite journal|last=Richmond|first=Sheldon|date=1978|title=none|jstor=430891|journal=The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism|volume=37|issue=1|pages=109–110|doi=10.2307/430891|issn=0021-8529}} *{{Cite journal|last1=Ames|first1=Kenneth L.|last2=Ames|first2=Gail Johnson|date=1980|title=none|jstor=203194|journal=The Journal of Interdisciplinary History|volume=10|issue=3|pages=519–523|doi=10.2307/203194|issn=0022-1953}} *{{Cite journal|last=Healey|first=T.|date=1978|title=none|jstor=1574174|journal=Leonardo|volume=11|issue=3|pages=248–249|doi=10.2307/1574174|issn=0024-094X}}</ref> ''Has Modernism Failed?'' (1982),<ref>Reviews of ''Has Modernism Failed?'': *{{cite news|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/30/books/art-under-late-capitalism.html|title=Art under late capitalism|first=Eugene Victor|last=Thaw|authorlink= Eugene V. Thaw|date=September 30, 1984}} *{{Cite journal|last=de Breffny|first=Brian|date=1984|title=none|jstor=20491657|journal=Irish Arts Review (1984–1987)|volume=1|issue=3|pages=62|issn=0790-178X}} *{{Cite journal|last=Fuller|first=Peter|date=1985|title=none|jstor=882175|journal=The Burlington Magazine|volume=127|issue=989|pages=542–543|issn=0007-6287}} *{{Cite journal|last=Wiseman|first=Mary Bittner|date=1986|title=Review of The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, ; Has Modernism Failed?|jstor=3332444|journal=Journal of Aesthetic Education|volume=20|issue=3|pages=122–127|doi=10.2307/3332444|issn=0021-8510}}</ref> ''The Reenchantment of Art'' (1992),<ref>Reviews of ''The Reenchantment of Art'': *{{cite magazine|title= The Reenchantment of Art by Suzi Gablik|magazine= Kirkus Reviews|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/suzi-gablik/the-reenchantment-of-art/|accessdate=September 4, 2016|language=en-us}} *{{Cite journal|last=Bull|first=Malcolm|date=1993|title=none|jstor=885535|journal=The Burlington Magazine|volume=135|issue=1081|pages=286|issn=0007-6287}} *{{Cite journal|last=Collins|first=Bradford R.|date=1993|title=Rescuing Art and Culture|jstor=777243|journal=Art Journal|volume=52|issue=2|pages=93–97|doi=10.2307/777243|issn=0004-3249}} *{{cite journal|last=Allen|first=J.|date=February–March 1992|journal=American Craft|volume=52|issue=1|page=19|title=Review|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/9204271379/books}} *{{cite journal|last=Goldman|first=Saundra|date=May 1992|journal=Art Papers|volume=16|issue=3|page=55|title=Review|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/33742854/reenchantment-art}} *{{cite journal|last=Allen|first=Pat B.|date=November 1994|journal=American Journal of Art Therapy|volume=33|issue=2|page=60|title=Review|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/9411221698/book-film-reviews}} *{{cite journal|last=Widmer|first=Kingsley|author-link=Kingsley Widmer|date=June–July 1992|journal=American Book Review|volume=14|issue=2|title=The aesthetics of social ecology|url=http://americanbookreview.org/issueContent.asp?id=91}}</ref> ''Conversations Before the End of Time'' (1995),<ref>Reviews of ''Conversations Before the End of Time'': *{{Cite journal|last=Bromley|first=Anne C.|date=1996|title=none|jstor=41401277|journal=The Georgia Review|volume=50|issue=3|pages=617–620|issn=0016-8386}} *{{cite journal|last=Silvers|first=Anita|date=Fall 1999|doi=10.2307/432167|issue=4|journal=The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism|jstor=432167|pages=486–487|title=none|volume=57}} *{{cite journal|last=Klein|first=Sheri R.|date=Summer 1998|doi=10.2307/1320243|issue=4|journal=Studies in Art Education|jstor=1320243|pages=381–384|title=none|volume=39}} *{{cite journal|last=Lachman-Chapin|first=Mildred|date=July 1998|doi=10.1080/07421656.1989.10759324|issue=3|journal=Art Therapy|pages=207–208|title=none|volume=15}} *{{cite news|newspaper=The Irish Times|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/conversations-before-the-end-of-time-by-suzi-gablik-thames-hudson-12-95-in-uk-1.138584|date=March 7, 1998|author=B.F.|title=Conversations Before the End of Time}}</ref> ''Living the Magical Life: An Oracular Adventure'' (2002),<ref>{{cite journal|date=July 2003|doi=10.1093/isle/10.2.299|issue=2|journal=Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment|jstor=44086217|pages=299–308|title=Annotated List of Recent Books|volume=10}}</ref> and ''Magritte'' (1970),<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dutton|first=Flora|date=1971|title=Review of Magritte|jstor=876774|journal=The Burlington Magazine|volume=113|issue=823|pages=616–619|issn=0007-6287}}</ref> about the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, written while living with the Magrittes.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gablik|first1=Suzi|title=Magritte|year=1970|publisher=New York Graphic Society|isbn=0500490031|url=https://archive.org/details/magritte00gabl|language=English}}</ref>

Gablik's ''The Reenchantment of Art'' announced her disenchantment with "the compulsive and oppressive consumeristic framework in which we do our work," and argued that a re-connection to the primordial and to ritual might allow "for a return of soul."<ref name="Reenchantment">Gablik, Suzi. [https://www.amazon.com/Reenchantment-Art-Suzi-Gablik/dp/0500276897 ''The Reenchantment of Art''.] London: Thames and Hudson, 1992, p. 3, 11. {{ISBN|978-0-5002768-9-1}}. Retrieved February 22, 2018.</ref><ref name="Morgan">Morgan, David. "Enchantment, Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment,” in [https://www.routledge.com/Re-Enchantment/Elkins-Morgan/p/book/9780203891667 ''Re-Enchantment'', edited by James Elkins, David Morgan.] New York: Routledge, 2009, p. 16-17. Retrieved February 22, 2018.</ref> Instead of traditional forms of religion, however, Gablik sought out contemporary art that she believed broke out of the Western framework, championing the work of artists such as Frank Gohlke, Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Nancy Holt, Dominique Mazeaud, Fern Shaffer and Otello Anderson, Starhawk, James Turrell, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, in the book and in subsequent critical writing.<ref name="Orion">Gablik, Suzi. "Arts and the Earth: Making Art as If the World Mattered," ''Orion'', Autumn 1995, p. 44.</ref>

In addition to her critical articles, Gablik conducted interviews with other artists, art critics or philosophers, such as Richard Shusterman.<ref>{{cite web|title=FAU – Breaking Out of the White Cube|url=http://www.fau.edu/humanitieschair/white-cube.php|website=www.fau.edu|accessdate=September 4, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Shaffer Anderson">Gablik, Suzi. "The Ecological Imperative: An Interview with Fern Shaffer and Othello Anderson," ''Art Papers'', Nov. 1991.</ref> She also wrote essays for exhibition catalogues of shows that she has curated.<ref>{{cite web|title=apexart :: Suzi Gablik :: Sacred Wild|url=http://www.apexart.org/exhibitions/gablik.htm|website=www.apexart.org|accessdate=September 4, 2016}}</ref>

Her papers are held at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=stieber>{{Cite journal|last=Stieber|first=Jason|date=2014|doi=10.1086/aaa.53.1_2.43155548|title=Collector's Note: Suzi Gablik Abroad|jstor=43155548|journal=Archives of American Art Journal|volume=53|issue=1/2|pages=140–145|s2cid=192168719|issn=0003-9853}}</ref>

==Teaching== Gablik taught at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts and Washington and Lee University, and has lectured at many others. From 1976 to 1979, she participated in U.S. International Communications Agency lecture tours in India, Hungary, Pakistan, and countries of South Asia.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Art|first1=Archives of American|title=Detailed description of the Suzi Gablik papers, 1954–2014 {{!}} Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/suzi-gablik-papers-16176/more|website=www.aaa.si.edu|accessdate=September 5, 2016}}</ref> She also participated in the Mountain Lake Symposium in 1986 and again in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |title=Artists/Workshops |website=Mountain Lake Workshop |access-date=May 13, 2022 |url=https://www.mountainlakeworkshop.org/_files/ugd/c1c169_5f50c01d59294594b29aa05fd5347bd3.pdf |language=en}}</ref>

==Collections and exhibitions== Gablik's art work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum<ref name="Smithsonian Museum">{{cite web|last1=Smithsonian Institution|title=Suzi Gablik: Works by this artist|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/suzi-gablik-1707|accessdate=June 20, 2020|website=Smithsonian American Art Museum}}</ref> and the Black Mountain College Museum collection.<ref>{{cite web|title=Suzi Gablik|url=http://www.blackmountaincollege.org/suzi-gablik/|accessdate=June 20, 2020|website=Black Mountain College Museum|date=March 20, 2020 }}</ref>

Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.<ref>{{cite web|title=Suzi Gablik|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/62178?locale=en|accessdate=June 20, 2020|website=Museum of Modern Art}}</ref>

==Personal life and death== Gablik was in a brief relationship with {{ill|Harry Torczyner (lawyer)|lt=Harry Torczyner|fr|Harry Torczyner (avocat)}} after her graduation.<ref name="stieber" /><ref name="Greenberger" /> She died on May 7, 2022, at her home in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was 87, and suffered from a long unspecified illness prior to her death.<ref name=Greenberger/><ref>{{cite news|title=Suzi Gablik (1934–2022)|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/suzi-gablik-1934-2022-88560|date=May 12, 2022|access-date=May 12, 2022|magazine=Artforum}}</ref>

==Awards and honors== In 2003, Gablik was awarded a National Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding achievement in the visual arts by the Women's Caucus for Art.<ref name="WCforArt">{{cite web |title=Women's Caucus for Art Honor Awards 2003 |url=https://nationalwca.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/LTA2003.pdf |website=National Women's Caucus for Art |accessdate=June 20, 2020}}</ref>

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