I am an artist, writer, and designer based in Vermont. My work moves across painting, books, and photography, but is guided by a single pursuit: clarity of form, proportion, and a quiet sense of presence shaped through careful making.
Artist
My painting practice spans still life, landscape, and abstraction, often moving between representation and pure form. I return to familiar subjects across series, allowing shifts in light, texture, and tone to gradually transform what is seen.
Rooted in the seasonal rhythms of rural Vermont, the work reflects a balance between structure and intuition, restraint and responsiveness. Whether on canvas or paper, I seek a simplicity that invites sustained looking rather than immediate resolution.
I paint in my studio in Woodstock, Vermont. The work is exhibited at the Glenn Suokko Gallery in nearby Quechee and through private viewings, and is held in private collections in the United States and abroad.
Gallery
The Glenn Suokko Gallery was established in 2009 in Quechee, Vermont, in association with glassmaker Simon Pearce. Directed by my wife Ann and myself, the gallery offers a quiet, unhurried setting for viewing paintings and selected design projects.
Alongside my own work, the gallery includes a small group of historical and antiquarian objects chosen for their craftsmanship and enduring utility—objects that reflect our shared interest in material intelligence and thoughtful design.
Book Design
Parallel to my work as a painter, I have maintained an independent design studio in Vermont since 1991. I have designed and produced more than two hundred art books and exhibition catalogues for museums and publishers in the United States and abroad.
My design practice is grounded in proportion, pacing, and material clarity, and has been featured in Print, Metropolitan Home, and Emigre. My work is represented in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Catalogue Raisonné
For more than two decades, I have collaborated with the Li Ching Foundation in Taipei on the Archives of Modern Chinese Art, a long-term publishing project devoted to early twentieth-century Chinese modernists. This work has resulted in eight catalogue raisonnés in Chinese, French, and English, including publications on Sanyu, Pan Yu Lin, and Ting Yin Yung.
In 2024, this collaboration culminated in Sanyu: His Life and Complete Works in Oil, a two-volume biography and catalogue raisonné that brings together more than twenty-five years of scholarship and design.
Writing and Photography
In addition to painting and book design, I write and photograph projects focused on art, architecture, and the landscape of Vermont. My authored books include A Way of Living; Simon Pearce: Design for Living; Shelburne Farms: House, Gardens, Farm, and Barns; and The Ledges.
I have also published monographs on artists Peter Brooke and Peter France, and Marsh–Billings–Rockefeller in Woodstock. With Ann, I founded Pastoral, a journal exploring Vermont’s creative community, followed by A New Pastoral, devoted to cooking and domestic life.
Education and Early Work
I studied art and design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (BFA, 1982) and the Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA, 1988).
From 1988 to 1991, I served as Senior Designer at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, overseeing publications and exhibitions and acting as Art Director for Design Quarterly. During this period, I contributed to the exhibition Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History and its accompanying catalogue.
Earlier, as Art Director at CW Communications in New Hampshire, I interviewed Andy Warhol in his New York studio during the creation of his Amiga computer self-portrait—an interview later included in I’ll Be Your Mirror.