Glenn Suokko

Painter

Glenn Suokko studied art and design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts (BFA) and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (MFA). In 1991 he established his creative studio in Vermont and paralleling a full career focusing on designing art books and art exhibitions catalogues for museums and publishers, he also dedicated much of his creative endeavors as a painter.

Since 2009 he has overseen the art gallery - now Glenn Suokko Gallery - he developed in association with glassmaker Simon Pearce in Quechee, Vermont, where today he features his paintings, the work of other artists, and a collection of antiquarian objects.

Website: www.glennsuokko.com

  • “For me, painting is an ongoing exploration in creative process to further personal artistic development. I am drawn to painting the representation and abstraction of nature, the familiar and unfamiliar, the rendered object and the flat plain, and brief moments that are transitory and allusive. In my work through constructs such as realism, expressionism, or abstraction, I seek to offer the viewer a sense of quietude and contemplation.”

    Glenn Suokko

Glenn Suokko (right) on his first editorial assignment, with Andy Warhol (left) at his studio in New York, 1985

(Photo by Ed Judice)