Bio

Born in Montreal, Susan has lived in Jerusalem, New York, Boston, Roanoke, Ottawa and now Toronto.  She has had solo exhibitions of her work in those cities and participated in numerous other juried and group shows in Canada and abroad, winning many awards.

 

She began her art life one tender night at age two when her father’s pen dropped from his pocket as he bent over to tuck her in and the sheets became her canvas. She claims to have been trying to return to abstract expressionism ever since.

 

These new collage and oil stick paintings are getting closer.  Using any and all torn bits that she finds from junk mail to fine handmade papers, she builds sensuous Gaudi-like texture reminiscent of bubbles, primordial soups, magnetic energy, or nerve endings.

 

It is the unexpected which surfaces spontaneously from some imagery in her subconscious, and hopefully conjoins with that of the viewer to invite a dialogue.

CV

M.A.          2002                  Hollins University, Roanoke Virginia, English and Creative Writing

B.F.A.        1971                  Sir George Williams University (Concordia), Montreal, Quebec

                                            (Including one year at Ontario College of Art, Toronto, and one year at Académie Julien, Paris)

 

Solo exhibitions

2011     Less prose, more poetry, Rouge Concept Gallery, Toronto, ON

2011     Fragments, Triangle Gallery, Toronto, ON

2009     New Abstraction, Petroff Gallery, Toronto. ON

2009     Spring Forward, Petroff Gallery, Toronto, ON

2008     Soul of the Machine, TYPE Bookstore gallery, Toronto, ON

 2007     On the Line, Ottawa School of Art Showcase, Ottawa, ON

 2006     Unbuttoned, Atrium Gallery, Ottawa, ON

 2004     Faces of Wellesley, Wellesley Free Library, Wellesley, MA

 2003     Unbuttoned, Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

 2001     Ci'-vis: Portraits of Newton, Newton Free Library, Newton MA

 1995     Prints and Drawings, Lighthouse Gallery, Tequesta, Florida

 1993     New Drawings, Newton Public Library, Newton, Massachusetts

 1982     Silverpoint Drawings, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA

 1979     Prints and Drawings, The Artists' House, Jerusalem, Israel

 

3 -4 Person Exhibitions

 

 2007     The Underwood Series, IPO Gallery, Ottawa, ON                 

 2000     Solitudes, Lyman Eyer Gallery, Newton Massachusetts

 1999     Equinox, Randolph Associates Fine Art, Belmont, Massachusetts

 1998     Two Coasts/Four Visions, Horn Gallery, Babson College, Wellesley, MA

 1994      Three Figurative Painters, Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

 1992      Three Women, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, Massachusetts

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 2006-9 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto, ON

2007     Montreal International Festival en Arts, Montreal, QC

             Drawing 2007, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON

              24^th Annual Portrait Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA

 2006     Faces of Boston, Boston City Hall, Boston MA

              23rd Annual Portrait Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA

 2005     22nd Annual Portrait Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA

 2002     Diversity in White, Studios on the Square, Roanoke, Virginia, First Place

 2001     18th Annual Portrait Show, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, Massachusetts

 1998     The Male Image, Fowler Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts

 1997     All New England Color Show, Cohasset, Massachusetts First Place

 1996     International Colored Pencil Society Exhibition, San Diego, California

              Women in the Visual Arts/96, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT                  

 1995      The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, Merit Award

 1994     Realism '94, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia, Seeond Place

              The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

              International Colored Pencil Society Exhibition, Birmingham, Michigan Gallery Alliance Award

              Realism '93, Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia

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