Visual Artist, Curator

SUSAN DOBAY – rEsumé

 

Hungarian by birth, Susan Dobay  resides in California. After studying graphic arts both in Hungary and the U.S, she served as an illustrator for advertising agencies, magazines, and newspapers.

 

Wanting to explore more creative options, Susan Dobay moved from commercial to fine art, and in 1968 she was invited to join and exhibit with the Alliance of Hungarian Artists both in the United States and abroad.

 

In Los Angeles Dobay helped found the Arany Janos Hungarian Literary and Cultural Circle.

 

Dobay’s art is represented in collections in London, Switzerland, Hungary,

Transylvania, Canada, New York and Los Angeles.

 

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

 

“Although I derive inspiration from various sources –e.g., music, nature, the human condition -I try to find the balance between mind and spirit. My goal is to involve viewers in a creative game where both the mind and the heart are stimulated.”

 

Listings

Hungarian Painters and Graphic Artists 1988

California Art Review 1989

Contemporary Hungarian Lexicon 1999

International Women Artists 1997

Who’s Who in America

Who’s Who in the World

 

Documentation

Deri Museum, Debrecen, Hungary

San Diego Museum, California

Hungarian National Museum, Budapest

Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest

Vasarely Museum, Budapest

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum. San Francisco, CA

The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.

Long Beach Museum of Art, CA

 

One person exhibitions

     2010  Art Center of Ferencvaros , Budapest, Hungary

      2010  Scenic Drive Gallery, Monrovia, California

      2009  Scenic Drive Gallery, Monrovia, California

2007  Tibor Erno Galeria, Nagyvarad, Transylvania

2006  Szatmarnemet Museum, Transylvania

2006  Museum of Mateszalka,  Hungary

2006  2B Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2006  Wall Art Gallery   Fermandia Beach, Florida

2005  2B Gallery Budapest, Hungary

2004  Zemplen Galeria, Satoraljaujhely, Hungary

2003  Gateway Plaza, Pasadena, CA

2002  Sumitomo Building, Los Angeles

2002  Glendale City Center, Glendale, CA

2001  Lurdy House Gallery, Budapest

2001  Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2001  Pincetarlat Gallery Budapest

1999  Deri Museum, Debrecen Hungary

1996  Invitational guest artist at the Millecentenarium of

                Hungary. The exhibit travels to: Budapest, Belgium,

                Germany, Austria, Israel, Japan and the USA.

      1995  Three Palms Gallery at Sterling Vineyards, CA

      1995  Featured Artist Allied Arts Association, Richland, Washington

1994   Featured Artist, Joslyn Arts Center, Torance, CA

1993    Vasarely Museum, Budapest

1993    Vroman’s Gallery, Pasadena

1992    Jozsef Varos Gallery, Budapest

1990      Fine Art Publisher’s Building, Budapest

1989      Style Connection Gallery, Encino, CA

1983      Teeblat Gallery, Freiberg, Germany

1983      Arcadia Public Library, Arcadia, CA

1981      Collector Showcase Gallery, Los Angeles,

1980       Pocket Stage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1979       Ma Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1978       Dorog Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1977       Open Studio, Monrovia, CA

1974       Qraz Gallery , Seattle, Washington

1973         KFAC Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1972         Au Petit Jean, Beverly Hills, CA

      1968    Bognar Gallery, Los Angeles

 

 

Group exhibitions

2010       Art Center of Thousand Oaks, CA

2006         Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation, New Brunswick, NJ

2004         2B Galeria, Budapest

2001         Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego

2000          Galleria Adonis Woodridge, Ontario, Canada

1999          Priory Gallery Swiss Cottage, London, England

1998          Museum of Arts Downtown Los Angeles, CA

1996          Art Exhibition Galleries Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, CA

1996          Galerie 101 Corte Madre, CA

1996          Zantman Galleries, Palm Desert, CA

1993        Luthar Gallery, Budapest

1994        Invitational guest artist at the Milicentenarium  of Hungary.

                   Exhibit travels to :Belgium, Germany, Austria, Israel, Japan and USA.

1995       Kortars Gallery, Budapest and Debrecen, Hungary

1991        Orlando Gallery, Shermen Oaks, CA

 1991     Var Gallery, Budapest

1984         U.N. Woman Conference, Nairobi, Kenya

1985      Mc Houston Gallery, Pasadena CA

1982         Mucsarnok Museum, Budapest

1979         LA Artists Equity, Los Angeles CA

1979      New York Artists Equity, NY

1975      California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles

1972         Olympic Art’s Festival, Munich, Germany

1967          California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles

 

 

CRITIC’S STATEMENTS

 

“ Her work offers a rich cross section of our century’s spiritual and stylistic movement. Her work is part of that artistic movement which express in a contemporary manner the sensitivity, the mentality, and cultural needs of modern man facing the turn of the millennium.”

“ She has the courage to use the visual tools and forms to say many things in many different ways.”

Gabor O. Pogany, Art Historian

( Director of the Hungarian National Gallery)

 

“She is primarily interested in clashing emotions, in opposites. While living in and surrounded  by a society of material worship, her studio in Southern

California stands as a shelter for an idealistic revolution where Dobay ventures into exploring the duality of existence: matter and soul.”

Anna J. Winslow

Author

 

“The monumental yet sensitively refined forms give a unique floating sensation to the work, which reflects simultaneously the  link between artistic tradition and individual trademark of the artist.”

Andras Bohar, Art Critic,

(Art Today Magazine)

 

 

 

A Cervantes with a brush”

Bernardo Blanco Gonzales, Ph. D., Author

 

“Dobay’s love, emotion, and philosophy have exploded on canvas: Dobay’s creation had to be born.”

Akos Thiery, Ph. D. ,Art Historian

 

“Dobay’s creations have impact not only on the mind, but their unusual concepts and color compositions shake up the emotions too.”

L. Babonici, Ph.D., Art Historian

 

“Dobay projects her thoughts with a newly modern, assuredly contemporary flair”

Lilla Szabo, Ph.D. Art historian

Hungarian National Gallery