Suzanne Coiro Art

04/13/2025

08/31/2024

Check out the 20th century American Art exhibit at Yale University Art Gallery:YES! Let's hear it for American art.

In an era of sweeping change following the devastation of the Civil War, an ambitious generation of American artists adopted the human figure as their focus. Showcasing more than one hundred studies r

04/29/2024

Women's breakthrough into commercial art. It wasn't so long ago that women were prohibited from attending art school.

How did women emerge as active creators of art and visual culture in the nineteenth century?

09/12/2023

You don't realize all the stuff you do in life. I was recently watching PBS Passport and some NYC-Arts episodes. They were talking about the Art Students League and also Society of Illustrators. ASL had a sketch "class" on Saturday mornings. I say class in quotes because there was no instructor. Was great. You just went there, paid the fee (was around $10 for the session) and set up your easel for drawing, painting, pastels, whatever your medium of choice, and then got to work. You'd often be working next to famous, very successful artists. I did that! It was worth getting up early to get the subway into Manhattan. Afterwards, before going back to Queens I'd stop at a bakery on 6th Ave. where they sold delicious cornbread with corn kernels and/or hot pepper pieces baked in. Then there was the Society of Illustrators. They had a model one night each week in their studio on the top floor of their permanent location. I think it was on Monday nights. A friend of mine, Liz Bailey and I would meet there to draw. They kind of discouraged painting in those sessions since it would get messy and the sessions were very crowded. The good thing about going there was that they always had a theme, along with appropriate music and sometimes a jazz musician. On the break, you could go down to the bar for a drink which was normally restricted to members which of course we were not. So it was a big deal to be drinking there. But here again it was an opportunity to share and discuss your work with some of NY's top illustrators. Life is good. As I said, you really don't realize all that you do in the time that you've got. Life truly is what's happening when you're planning for the next big thing which may or may not come along.

06/25/2018

My latest painting

06/25/2018

Just a sketch at Grand Central

04/19/2017

From my friend, Anne K. Mulligan's page

From my friend, Jody, who's an amazing artist.

03/26/2017

All Local Marine Artists TAKE NOTE:

THE MILFORD FINE ARTS
WATERSCAPES
POP UP MARINE ART SHOW

RECEPTION SATURDAY, APRIL 8TH
5:30 -7:00 MEET THE ARTISTS

SUNDAY, APRIL 9TH
JAZZ BRUNCH 11:00 -1:00
BRUNCH AMONG THE ART

ARTISTS REGISTER ONLINE AT THE MAC

12/26/2016

Paint splashes on the wall and ceiling in my studio -- Jackson Pollack move over!

12/07/2016

To paraphrase Cezanne:
A picture (painting) is not a piece of decoration, but rather an expression of the artist conveying her/his interaction or experience with the forms & colors of her/his environment.

10/10/2016

Baudelaire thought that we artists should be "flaneurs", i.e., wanderers, to find our art. That works for me. I get many inspirations when walking along.