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Sculpture: Stone, Wood, Clay/Catalystic Drawing (Finding Your Own Voice)
 G. L. Sussman studied at the John Herron Art School; the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France; the Academy, Florence, Italy and the Art Students League, where he was awarded an Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant in 1973 and served as an apprentice to Jose de Creeft.
At the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, Mr. Sussman
became Sculptural Technician in 1976 and later Dean of Students.
In 1979, he became Director of the Sculpture Center School in New York City.
Under his guidance, the Center became one of the most comprehensive sculpture
facilities, establishing scholarship and intern fellowship programs for sculptors. He is
currently President of Fog Hill & Company, a fine arts service organization.
Mr. Sussman has had many commissions and is included in many prominent
collections, notably Yale University Scroll & Key, Rockefeller Center and Radio City
Music Hall, the Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles, the Museum of the Bank of New York,
Sunnyside Park, Irvington, New York; Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio; GTG Group
East and USA Today Show, Washington, D.C.
He has exhibited widely at such venues as Augustus Saint Gaudens National
Historic Park, New Hampshire; Bethune Gallery SUNY at Buffalo; Colby Museum at
Colby College, Maine; the Museum Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France; the Sculpture
Center Gallery, New York City and Southern Vermont Art Center.
He has been an artist-in-residence at Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France, 1991;
International School of Art, Umbria, Italy, 1993 and North College, Elgin, Scotland,
1999.
Mr. Sussman is a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society, a member of Artists Equity Association, Artists' Fellowship, and Audubon Artists, and a life member of the Art Students League. He is listed in Who's Who In American Art, and Who's Who in the East.
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