A CONVERSATION WITH ABIGAIL SUSIK

FRANÇOISE SULLIVAN

In October 2021, I had the good fortune of making the acquaintance of the Canadian visual artist and dancer/choreographer, Françoise Sullivan (born Montreal, 1923). We happened to be seated next to one another at the opening of the Surrealism Beyond Borders exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Sullivan had travelled to the opening with her friend Claude Gosselin, the Director of the Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC MTL), to view the installation of photographs from her 1948 improvisational dance performance, Danse dans la neige [Dance in the snow], which had taken place seventy-three years earlier.

ARTWORKS FOR SALE

SOPHIE JODOIN

A friend of CIAC is offering for sale, via the services of CIAC MTL, part of her collection of works by Sophie Jodoin. In return, CIAC MTL will receive a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the works to finance its educational activities, including the bilingual publication, in French and English, this fall of an interview by Françoise Sullivan with Dr. Abigail Susik, Associate Professor of Art History at Willamette University, Salem and Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.