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Susan Schwartzenberg
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Senior Artist, The Exploratorium |
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Advisory Board Member |
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Susan Schwartzenberg is a photographer/visual artist. Her work ranges from the design of books and installations, to public art and curated exhibitions. Her themes include biography, memorial and studies of urban life and history. She spent the academic year 1998-99 as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University where she focused her attention on the theories and design of the urban environment, specifically exploring narrative approaches to the design of landscape and streetscape. She has a particular interest in the dynamic between the physical environment and personal existence.
Schwartzenberg is also collaborating on a project with author Rebecca Solnit; Hollow City: Gentrification and the Eviction of Culture, a book of texts and photographs exploring the transformed nature of San Francisco in the face of recent grand scale redevelopment projects (scheduled to be published by Verso in the Fall of 2000).
Ms. Schwartzenberg's other recent public projects include; Cento: a Market Street Journal (1996), published by the San Francisco Art Commission, which juxtaposed urban history with contemporary stories in an experimental guidebook, journal, and map, and the McFarland Memorial, (1998), a collaboration with landscape architect Alan Berger, a public plaza linking biography and testimonial in Phoenix Arizona. She recently returned to the Exploratorium, a museum of science and art in San Francisco, where her new position is Senior Artist. |
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