About Suzanne
Name: Suzanne Z. Longo
Date of Birth: February 6, 1942
Place of Birth: Youngstown, Ohio
Ancestry: Russian, Polish Jewish
Classic Education: Wayne State University
Residences: Detroit, New Orleans, Beaufort, SC
Medium:
- sculpture-clay & concrete
- oil pastel on paper
Scale: miniature to 6′
Vision Description: figurative sculpture, monumental naturalism, seductive sensuality, monolithic simplicity
Aesthetic Style:
- glazed & unglazed clay
- curvaceous, sensuous, voluptuous
Ideology: solid intimate, enduring, Joie de vivre, love
Cultural Subjects life stages of women, Odalisques, romance, sex, pregnancy, Mother & child, family, including pets
Primary Influences: Prehistoric venus figures, pin-ups, & goddesses, Tantric & Pre-Columbian art, Henry Moore, Diego Rivera
Ethos: uplift the spirit of humanity transcending time & place
