Glenn Suokko
At a certain point in a life devoted to making, the question shifts. Not am I successful? but what does success mean? In A Quiet Success, Glenn Suokko turns that question over slowly and honestly, drawing on his own experience as a painter, designer, writer, and publisher, and on the lives of artists who built their practices far from the spectacle of the art world. Through portraits of a British studio potter who never signed his pots, a Chinese painter who died impoverished and unknown, an Italian artist who began her life’s work in her fifties, and others who found their own quiet measures of achievement, Suokko arrives at something useful and true: that a creative life sustained over time, aligned with one’s work, and enough on its own terms, is its own kind of success.
About the Author
Glenn Suokko’s work as a painter, designer, photographer, and writer shares a single animating pursuit: clarity, balance, and beauty in the everyday world.
For over thirty years, he has worked as an artist from his studio at his home on Barberry Hill in Woodstock, Vermont, where he also maintains an art gallery nearby.
Educated at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he earned an MFA, Suokko built a distinguished career in book design—creating more than two hundred art books and catalogues for museums, galleries, and publishers. His work is held in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
As author and designer, he photographs and writes about the landscapes, people, and quiet rhythms of rural life that have long shaped his vision, reflecting a lifelong belief that art and daily life are united.
60 pages, 9 × 6 inches, softcover
Glenn Suokko
At a certain point in a life devoted to making, the question shifts. Not am I successful? but what does success mean? In A Quiet Success, Glenn Suokko turns that question over slowly and honestly, drawing on his own experience as a painter, designer, writer, and publisher, and on the lives of artists who built their practices far from the spectacle of the art world. Through portraits of a British studio potter who never signed his pots, a Chinese painter who died impoverished and unknown, an Italian artist who began her life’s work in her fifties, and others who found their own quiet measures of achievement, Suokko arrives at something useful and true: that a creative life sustained over time, aligned with one’s work, and enough on its own terms, is its own kind of success.
About the Author
Glenn Suokko’s work as a painter, designer, photographer, and writer shares a single animating pursuit: clarity, balance, and beauty in the everyday world.
For over thirty years, he has worked as an artist from his studio at his home on Barberry Hill in Woodstock, Vermont, where he also maintains an art gallery nearby.
Educated at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he earned an MFA, Suokko built a distinguished career in book design—creating more than two hundred art books and catalogues for museums, galleries, and publishers. His work is held in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
As author and designer, he photographs and writes about the landscapes, people, and quiet rhythms of rural life that have long shaped his vision, reflecting a lifelong belief that art and daily life are united.
60 pages, 9 × 6 inches, softcover
