Collaborations - Suzanne Siegel Art

collaborations

Mother Art:
A performance/installation collective was active from 1973 until 1987.

Recently, three of us have reunited to participate in Pacific Standard Time, an initiative of the Getty Museum examining Los Angeles art from 1945 to 1980.

Artists Formerly Known as Women:
Six artists who collaborate on installation projects related to the environment and water.

Suzanne Siegel and Kay Brown:
Figueroa Women, installation in the window of Kitchen Mouse Restaurant, part of Fig Jam celebrating Figueroa Street in Highland Park, Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Great Streets Initiative, 2016.

An accordion fold book examined the role dynamic women have played in the history of the Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood, starting with Native Americans, through Maria Catalina Verdugo, who inherited half the Verdugo rancho from her father, to Idah Mae Strobridge, a 19th century bookbinder, to Mexican America women railroad workers in World War II, to County Supervisor, Gloria Molina to community activist Amy Inouye.

The installation featured a number of women’s gloves suspended from the ceiling holding a variety of common objects.

Suzanne Siegel and Kay Brown: The Gathering, an installation for Reconsidering the Arroyo, an art exhibition juried by NewTown along the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, 2013.

This installation featured pairs of past and contemporary figures representing important historical aspects of the Arroyo Seco. Native American Tong-va, stewards of the land contrasted with Pasadena Park personnel working to restore the Arroyo to its natural state. Manuel Garfias, the last owner of San Pascual Rancho was partnered with Schrifin Lopez, who continues the agricultural tradition as an expert horseman at the local stables. Benjamin Wilson who bought the Rancho from Garfias and subdivided the land for Pasadena contrasted with Philip Koebel, an attorney working to keep local residents in their homes. Printmaker Frances Gearheart created work inspired by the Arroyo in the 1920s. Her contemporary counterpart, Linda Arreola, creates abstract work. Generations of young people used the Arroyo as a playground, Julia Child (nee McWilliams) may have read a book under this tree, while Maxine Endieveri now uses her I-pad in the same place.