Suzanne Storer

Suzanne was seduced by the magic of the potters wheel in her high school art class in Corvallis, Oregon. She promptly fell in love with clay and has never looked back. She went on to earn her BFA at the California College of the Arts in 1971 where she fell in love all over again, this time with drawing the posed nude figure while beautiful music filled the studio. Her ceramic sculpture in relief combines  those lifelong loves of form, line, clay and the human being.

For the past 35 years she has worked and lived in Ogden, Utah where she draws and sculpts everyday people. Suzanne found Irene, the model for "The Lunch Lady", volunteering in the cafeteria at the local Golden Hours Center when she stopped by one day to look for possible models. This sculpture was a semi finalist in the Smithsonian Institution's Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2016. "Mom" is indeed Suzanne's own mother whose resolve and determination seldom waiver. A family snapshot she took of her son while they were vacationing in Utah's red rock canyon country became the source material for her sculpture "Alec, My Son" as seen on the cover of "Sculpture Review" magazine - spring 2016.

This issue of the quarterly magazine of the National Sculpture Society focuses on contemporary relief sculpture. The magazine's extensive review of Suzanne's work mentions  that she is breaking new ground in the historically rich genre of sculpture in relief. "Alec, My son" was shown at "NCECA Ecumene: Global Interface in American Ceramics" at the 45th Assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Upon seeing "Alec, My Son" in 2012, Mark Del Vecchio, author of the book Postmodern Ceramics, said that he knows of no one currently creating finer work than hers in clay in relief. This sculpture will be on exhibit at the National Sculpture Society's 83 Annual Competition this coming fall.

Now Suzanne is focusing solely on relief sculptures of homeless people most trying to get by in Ogden, the town she lives in. "In Love And Homeless" is of a family waiting in line at Lantern House for lunch. Her large sculptural assemblage in the cafeteria at this shelter made use of people eating there as models and was designed to lift the spirits of those homeless peoople eating there.

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The eccentric landscape and people are always interesting.