Studio 409 - Artist Susan C. Dessel lives and works in Manhattan and Long Island City, NYC. She left a successful corporate career in 1998 to study Studio Art at the City University of NY (BFA Hunter College, 2003, MFA Brooklyn College, 2006). Her work has been exhibited in the U.S., London, Prague, and Yerevan, Armenia (June 2010). Dessel has twice experienced censorship, events that encouraged her to continue to develop her voice & visual vocabulary.

Dessel’s professional and personal involvements have been marked by efforts to effect social change. Her art is conceptual, a visual communication of her conviction that each of us can help determine our society’s character. The work reflects her belief in the dignity of each individual. It suggests her perception of societal issues as universal and particular, individual and collective. Dessel’s art as an extension of the artist herself encourages viewers to consider their own role in transforming the community -- local and global -- through their actions and inaction.

scd@desselstudio.net