Biography of Suzanne Osterweil Weber

SUZANNE OSTERWEIL WEBER, an experienced exhibitor on the New York scene, has graduate and undergraduate degrees from The Pratt Institute, where her talents in painting and graphics were recognized by such major forces in Twentieth Century art as Richard Lindner, George MacNeill, and Philip Pearlstein. She taught painting, drawing, and design at the Brooklyn Museum, the Parsons School of Design, and at the High School of Art and Design, where she also served as assistant principal of vocational art from 1979 to 1990. She was also a high school principal in both New York at Port Richmond High School (Staten Island, NY) and in New Jersey at Monmouth Regional High School (Tinton Falls, NJ.) Retired from education in 1997, Osterweil Weber began a new career path, that of portrait painter. Her unique vision continues to result in fresh, different and very modern portraits. In the past several years, she has become "the sought-after society portrait artist for young families in Monmouth County. "

Ms. Osterweil Weber has had sixteen solo exhibitions and has participated in hundreds of groups shows. Her paintings and prints hang in many public and private collections including THE NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF SPORT, THE UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY, LORAL CORPORATION, THE MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER and the homes of the NIARCHOS FAMILY. Her work has been shown at DYANSEN GALLERIES, WESTBROADWAY GALLERY, PLEIADES GALLERY, TA-NISIA GALLERY, ALONSO GALLERY, SPECTRUM SPORTS GALLERY and THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB IN New York City; THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, THE QUEENS MUSEUM, THE BERGEN MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, OWL 57 GALLERY (Woodmere, NY,) ARTFORMS GALLERY(Red Bank, NJ,) BEAUREGARD GALLERY (Rumson,NJ,) and THE LIVINGSTON COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER. She participates annually in THE MONMOUTH FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS and THE NJ CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS.

Osterweil Weber is listed in" WHO 'S WHO IN AMERICA, WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN ART, THE WORLD WHO 'S WHO OF WOMEN, THE DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY and WHO'S WHO IN COMMUNITY SERVICE.

Much has been written about the work of this artist: Renee Phillips in MANHATTAN ARTS - - "In all of her work there is an assuredness of form, clarity of vision, discipline and order. The skies are always expansive, the waters always deep. The past, present and future are integrated, fusing the old with the new, the ending with the beginning. The viewer is on a spectacular journey that transcends reality and ventures into the supernatural. (Osterweil Weber's) work has always had a profound effect on its viewers." Peter Janney, also writing in MANHATTAN ARTS calls her - - "a magical artist. She wants to transform us, alter our perceptions of the everyday and give us a new vision." Ed McCormack in ARTSPEAK - - "Osterweil Weber is an artist who has consistently been in tune with the major movements and trends of the past three decades. She is an important contemporary artist from whom we can expect even more startling surprises in future exhibitions."