Suzanne C. Ouellette
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Brief CV for Suzanne C. Ouellette

suzanne.ouellette293@gmail.com, 917-544-8478, www.souellette.com

Painter

Professor Emerita

The Graduate School, The City University of New York

Doctoral Program in Psychology and Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program

Higher Education

            1965-69           Newton College, Newton, MA, B.A., Psychology and Philosophy

            1969-71            Yale University Divinity School, New Haven CT, M.A.

            1972-77            The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Ph.D. Psychology

            1988-1990       Koho-School of Sumi-E, NY, NY, Japanese Brush Painting

            1990-1997        Parsons School of Design, NY, NY
                                        1990 Summer Fine Arts Program in Paris and the Dordogne
                                        Drawing, painting, sculpture
                                      
                                        Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, NY,
                                        Drawing, painting
                               
               1997-2010       National Academy of Design Museum and School, NY, NY
                                         Drawing, painting      
                                               
                                          Union Square Atelier of Samuel Adoquei
                                          Drawing, painting
                                               

  Art Awards

1997-2010      Drawings and paintings selected for Annual Juried Exhibitions, National Academy Museum and School

                        2006 First Prize in painting for Portrait of a Young Man

                        2007 Reva Price in Still Life Painting for Early Spring

                       
Solo Exhibitions

            2010               Chaiwalla Tea Room and Gallery, Salisbury, Ct
                                     Still Life Paintings
                          
            2010-11           Lance Lappin Tribeca, New York City
                                     People Up Close:  Portraits by Suzanne C. Ouellette

            2011                The Gallery, Hammertown, Rhinebeck, New York
                                     Impressions and Reflections

            2012               The Gallery, Hammertown, Rhinebeck, New York
                                    Still Life/Life Still

            2014                Chaiwalla Tea Room and Gallery, Salisbury, Ct.
                                     Meditations and Travels

  Group Shows

            2011                   The Atlantic Gallery, New York City
                                        Holiday Exhibition

            2012                   The Hoadley Gallery, Lenox, Ma.

            2012                   The Atlantic Gallery, New York City
                                        New Directions

            2012-13             The Moviehouse Gallery, Millerton, NY
                                        Abundance:  Farm, Food, and Table

            2013                   The Hoadley Gallery, Lenox, Ma.

            2013-14            The Gallery, Hammertown, Rhinebeck, NY
                                      Artists at Hammertown
                                       I curated this show that includes other painters, photographers, a potter, and my own paintings.

 
Writing on Art

Schenker, H. & Ouellette, S.C. (2000). The garden as women’s place: Celia Thaxter and Mariana van Rensselaer. In B. Szcygiel, J. Carubia, & L. Dowler (Eds.), Gendered landscapes: An interdisciplinary exploration of past place and space. University Park, PA: Center for Studies in Landscape History.

Ouellette, S.C. (2002). What the art of Alberto Giacometti Taught Me about Psychobiography. Clio’s Psyche: Journal of the Psychohistory Forum, 8.

  Ouellette, S.C. (2003). Painting lessons. In R. Josselson, A. Lieblich, D. McAdams (Eds.), Up Close and Personal: The Teaching and Learning of Narrative Research. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Ouellette, S. C. and Akerman, S. (2007). Emotions and stone: Two ways of knowing. Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, 22(1), 54-57.  Review of J. Winer, J. Anderson, and E. Danze’s book, Psychoanalysis and Architecture.

Ouellette, S.C. (2010) A garden for many identities. In R. Josselson & M. Harway (Eds.), Navigating Multiple Identities. New York: Oxford University Press.

Akerman, S. & Ouellette, S.C. (2012). What Ricoeur's Hermeneutics Reveal About Self, Identity and Aesthetic Experience: Toni Morrison and Arthur Miller. Theory & Psychology, 22 (4), 383-401.

What Others Have Written

Lieblich, A. (2011).  The experience of sitting to have my portrait painted. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Seventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Il (http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p497855_index.html) and published in International Journal of Art and Education. 

Professor Amia Lieblich describes and analyses her experience of working with me on a collaborative portrait project.  She is a psychologist and writer, currently Professor Emeritus of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and President of the Academic College for Society and the Arts in Israel.

The Country and Abroad Magazine, Johnnycake Hollow Press, Pine Plains, New York.  Summer issues for 2011, 1012, and 2013.

Reviews of exhibitions at The Gallery Hammertown in Rhinebeck, New York. 

Gallery Representation

The Hoadley Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts; The Gallery, Hammertown, Pine Plains and Rhinebeck, New York; and pieces, Pine Plains, New York.

Story Version (Detail)

For 22 years, my art was supported by my “day job” as a university professor. The university was a wonderful site for multidisciplinary research and psychology, a useful resource for painting.  Given important art movements and painters in the last century (if not longer), psychology was relevant training.  Increasingly, I moved into areas of psychology, particularly qualitative and narrative psychology and the study of lives/psychobiography, where the boundary between the practice of social science and that of art is blurred. In the 2003 paper, Painting Lessons, I described how what I learned in the painting studio made me a better teacher and mentor for doctoral students in psychology.  Painting taught me specific strategies useful in research and writing; and, more importantly, painting enabled the passion, commitment and social responsibility I always wanted to feel as I worked.  For a record of what I did in my “day job” -- the teaching and administrative positions, editorial and other responsibilities, research grants, awards, and publications, please see the c.v. on my website under resume tab http://www.souellette.com/academic-cv.html. 

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