Saturday, July 8, 2023

Faculty Exhibition Summer 2023, "Four Blue Ladies" ( Series of 15 Dress Paintings)

 

                        Rao Munsuru Gallery, West Campus of PHSC , New Port Richey, FL 

                                                        June 29.2023 - July 28, 2023

 Four Blue Ladies

                                        Artist Susanne Nielsen with four of 15 paintings

Discussing the art with visitors
                                                                Discussing the paintings
                                                                    Discussing the art


Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Exhibitions Paintings : Watercolors/Acrylic Susanne Nielsen

 LDDA: Sunday in the Arts - May 2023, Michael Murphey Gallery , Tampa,Florida


Gone Dancing, watercolor

                                            Country Morning, watercolor

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                   Faculty Exhibition PHSC, New Port Richey, Florida, July 2023



                                    "Women in Blue" - My Mothers' Dresses Series # 1-4


Exhibitions 2023: PAVA, Clearwater/Dunedin Galleries - mixed media Sculpture

 PAVA Members Exhibition, Dunedin , FL , March/April 2023



"Origins", "Places I've Lived: Iceland"


Opening Reception, Encore Exhibition Octagon Gallery, Clearwater, FL



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Photography and Memories , May 6, 2023 - June 24. 2023


        Coffin-Table Series: Liberace;               Coffin-Table Series: Meret Oppenheim




Monday, November 22, 2021

A "Tapestry" of South Asian inspired Mixed Media works







A "Tapestry" of South Asian inspired Mixed Media works

Project Tapestry of South Asia 

Susanne Nielsen





Mother's Dresses : Installation Project: Recreation of Dresses in conjunction with 12-Painting-Project

                                     

My Mother's Dresses adds a 3-D Component  - 12 Model Dresses Recreated

Susanne Nielsen collaborates with couture seamstress Theresia Thielke, both advised by Susanne's mother, to continue the 2020/21 "My Mother's Dresses" project with this added 3-D component. Susanne Nielsen announced this new project at the opening reception of "My Mother's Dresses" first exhibition. 


 12 Mother's Dresses that were exhibited in May-July 2021 at Freedom Pavilion, Tampa, Florida under the sponsorship of The Outdoor Art Foundation. 


The project of recreating the garments will lead to an installation of the paintings and the 3-D component of the 12 garments. 


                                                                      The  Dresses 

The Creation of the 50s Dresses - from photographs, few base-patterns modified to suit Susanne's mother and contemporary Post-WWII women also had done, begins in 2021 and is completed in June 2023.

Susanne Nielsen and Theresia Thielke



Susanne and Theresia share a friendship that began in 1098 when Theresia volunteered to answer telephones during Susanne Nielsen's hour long weekly German Radio Show in the studio. When Susanne heard about Theresia's interesting life and her work in the fashion world, she did a number of interviews for her show. When the 3-D component of the My Mother's Dresses became Susanne's next project, Theresia was a natural choice to help (re-) create these beautiful dresses. Visits with discussions between Susanne and Theresia continue through completion in June 2023. German-born Theresia Thielke's couture experience goes back to the 1960s training and work for couturiers like Oleg Cassini in New York, where she sewed the official wardrobe of First Lady Jackie Kennedy, incl. the inaugural gown and later sewed for First Lady Barbara Bush.   

Couture seamstress Theresia Thielke is executed the patterns and creation of the dresses in constant consulting with Susanne in person and her mother (via phone) every week.  

Susanne Nielsen and her Mother

 

Artist Susanne Nielsen kept her mother, the original creator of  the dresses "au courant" of  the progress on each recreated model dress by sending photographs via Whatsapp.  Susanne's mother, in her daily calls to her daughter, advised on color choices of the fabrics and other details she, as the creator of patterns for the 1950s' garments to be recreated by Theresia. 

Dress #1 - Gray Organza with rose trim and shawl of organza and taffeta

 

They began with the gray Organza dress, with peach flowers and a transparent Organza stole.  The photo shows Theresia working on the dess's top pleats.

    Completed gray/rose Organza dress, Dress # 1

Dress #2/3 white lace Top and blue Skirt and Jacket

Dress # 2/3 with blue skirt and jacket ( painting 2)

   Dress # 2/3 with Jacket ( painting 3)

 Dress #4 with red Primroses ( painting 4)

   Dress #4 with red Primroses ( painting 4)


Dress #5, with rose pattern on off-white fabric

Dress #5 with roses on off-white fabric


Dress #6, Tropical pattern , with black organza blouse/jacket


Dress #6, Tropical pattern , without black organza blouse/jacket
Dress #6b, Tropical pattern , with black organza blouse/jacket



Dress #7, Green Silk Taffeta Dress , "the most versatile" black/green reversible   



Apron/Kitchen Dress #8, "Kittel-Schuerze" , cotton blue/white pattern




Dress #9, Black Silk Taffeta Dress , "Mother's Legacy" 1940s resewn in 50s  



Dress #10, green Silk Taffeta Dress , balls and at Mother's wedding  


Anneliese Schmidt wore the green dress at her sister Rosemarie's wedding 1952, then added straps for cousin Helga to wear it at her wedding in 1954 

Dress #11, Multi-print Summer "Rettershof" Dress , first Outings with our Father



Dress #12, black Top/gray Skirt, yellow-orange flowers Dress

   


Dress #13, Off-White Lace Dress, stole,  1960/61 Nice, Wiesbaden Casino New Years Ball


 

Frame Work My Mother's Dresses Project
Opening and closing with Wedding Dresses Painted or/and Presented



Dress #14, Gray Wedding Dress,  1983, Last Original Dress sewn by Susanne's Mother


 


Dress #15, White Wedding Dress,  1954,  Dress from Angela Romeo Gibron's Mother
My Mother married in a Wedding dress borrowed from her sister, later she made a wedding dress for Barbie from her veil.



Book of Process: My Mother's Dresses: Susanne's Mother, Susanne Nielsen's Dress Project painted by her, and sewn by Theresia Thielke






Susanne Nielsen with Theresia Thielke 2022

Describing the Process: My Mother's Dresses:  Susanne Nielsen shows her paintings  and Theresia Thielke shows the dresses and all admire Susanne's Wedding dress sewn by her mother in 1983, 40+ years ago




Anneliese Schmidt with her Dresses in a book December 2022