# Suzi Gablik

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{{Short description|American artist and art critic (1934–2022)}}
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'''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](/source/Blacksburg%2C_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](/source/Black_Mountain_College), she entered [Hunter College](/source/Hunter_College) where she studied with [Robert Motherwell](/source/Robert_Motherwell).  She graduated with a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Smithsonian_Institution)}}</ref> [''ARTnews''](/source/Art_News) (1962–1966),<ref name=":0" /> ''[Times Literary Supplement](/source/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](/source/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](/source/John_Russell_(art_critic)).<ref name=":0" /><ref>Reviews of ''Pop Art Redefined'':
*{{cite news|newspaper=[The New York Times](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/surrealist) [René Magritte](/source/Ren%C3%A9_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](/source/Frank_Gohlke), [Gilah Yelin Hirsch](/source/Gilah_Yelin_Hirsch), [Nancy Holt](/source/Nancy_Holt), Dominique Mazeaud, [Fern Shaffer](/source/Fern_Shaffer) and Otello Anderson, [Starhawk](/source/Starhawk), [James Turrell](/source/James_Turrell), and [Mierle Laderman Ukeles](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Smithsonian_Institution)'s [Archives of American Art](/source/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](/source/Virginia_Commonwealth_University's_School_of_the_Arts) and [Washington and Lee University](/source/Washington_and_Lee_University), and has lectured at many others. From 1976 to 1979, she participated in [U.S. International Communications Agency](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Black_Mountain_College_Museum_%2B_Arts_Center) 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](/source/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](/source/Blacksburg%2C_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](/source/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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