On This Spot Newsletter July 2025

On This Spot tells the stories of a diverse group of women artists through short-form documentaries. Join us as we put women artists on the map.

Video Spotlight – Susan Weil

Susan Weil was an early proponent of the blueprint technique, creating vivid blue silhouettes that merge the human figure with abstraction. Though often overshadowed in the historical record, she introduced this method into her collaborations with her then-husband Robert Rauschenberg, an influence for which she has gotten little credit. Weil sustained her practice through the challenges of early motherhood and single life, supported by a community of artists.

Susan Weil's first survey exhibition in New York, About Time, is currently on view through August 9th at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center. The exhibition includes over 50 works, spanning her career from 1949 to 2025, and is the first solo institutional presentation of Weil's work in New York City.

You can read Natalie Prizel's review of the show for the Brooklyn Rail at the link below.

Spot Reads

Further reading on Spot artists

Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art

Edited by Vincent Katz

With essays by Martin Brody, Robert Creeley, andKevin Power

The women of Black Mountain College helped shape modern art in the mid 20th century, but their stories are often overshadowed by the famous male painters who attended. On This Spot highlights the achievements of artists Elaine de Kooning, Pat Pasloff, Dorothea Rockburne and Susan Weil, with upcoming profiles on Gwendolyn Knight and Anni Albers. From a remote campus in North Carolina, these women helped define a generation of American art.

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