CONTEMPORARY VOLUMES
Morris Museum
curated by Bryant Small
OCTOBER 24, 2025 – MARCH 22, 2026
6 Normandy Heights Road
Morristown, NJ 07960
(REVIEW EXCERPT) “The most extreme treatment comes from Susan Rostow, a sculptor who shares Green’s affinity for the natural world and her suspicion that books would really like to turn back into tree bark. “Cochineal,” beautiful with mossy green and beetle-red pigments, is paper metamorphosed by the pressures of its own materiality: folded, bunched up, bestowed by the artist with mottled edges and prints of dragonflies and mosquitoes. Yet somehow it still looks like a book. There is something downright optimistic about it.It suggests that even if civilization collapses and the contents of libraries are fused together by the glues and unguents of time, trace evidence of our literacy will persist.”Tris McCall, NJ Arts.net, writer 
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Contemporary Volumes features the works of 10 artists from across the US: Jim Casey, Brian Dettmer, Colette Fu, Samuelle Greene, Cheryl Gross, Amanda Love, Sarah Matthews, Cheryl R. Riley, Susan Rostow, and Diana Schmertz.
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CODDIWOMPLES
solo xhibition
Valley Arts Alliance
Loft Gallery
MARCH 21 – APRIL 25, 2026, 
Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 21, 2026, from 4-6PM
37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY 12764
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Coddiwomple—a slang word meaning “to travel purposefully toward an unknown destination”—captures the spirit of my art and life. My process unfolds across printmaking, sculpture, and video. Prints become the foundation for sculptures, and sculptures transform into actors in my stop-motion animations. Using printed paper, clay, pigments, and sand, sculptures grow through layering, burying, and uncovering. They then transform into actors in my stop-motion animations.

The process generates imagined artifacts of transformation that trace how we move, adapt, and carry our environments within us. Whether rooted or wandering, we are always in motion—reshaping ourselves and the world.