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In memory of my dearest friend and soul sister, Susanna Heller (1956–2021) — Suzanne Styhler
Susanne Heller was born 1956 in New York City, NY. Heller received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada in 1977. She lived and worked in Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY since 1981. She died in May 2021 in New York.
Susanna Heller: Beyond Pain, The Last Drawings, compiled, edited, and published by two of Heller’s oldest and dearest friends, artist Marlene Dumas and art historian Suzanne Styhler, is the first step in the task of celebrating and contextualizing Heller’s work. This book is an introduction to a remarkable artist, and it is a celebration of the power of drawing as a medium of intimate communication.
Photography: John Berens, Peter Cox, John Tamblyn
Text contributors: Jetteke Bolten-Rempt, Marlene Dumas, Liane Heller, Suzanne Styhler, Matthew Teitelbaum