Why I make art:

To explore and symbolize my inner life.
To startle myself about what I don’t know.
To hold the opposites of beauty and pain, destruction and creation.
To transform the viewer through feeling and a new visual vocabulary.
To feel awe about the ordinary.
To create a transcendental quality that moves one to think and feel beyond the surface of life.
To remember the dead.
To move paint around the canvas.
To play and get messy.
To lose track of time and space and fall into a reverie.

 

 

Selected Exhibitions:

2016 Art for Aides, Juried, San Francisco Group Show

 

 2015 Art for Aides Juried San Francico Group Show

 2015 San Francisco Open Studio

 

2014 Studio Gallery, San Francisco Group show

2013 Open Studios in the Mission, 1890 Bryant St.

2012  Studio Gallery, San Francisco Group show

 

2012  Open Studio San Francisc0

2011 ArtSpan anual Group Show

2010  Mina Dresden Gallery, Group Show, San Francisco, www.minadresden.com        

 Juried Art Span Benefit Spring Show, First Place Award for                      Figurative Work                                                                              

2009  Invitational Group Show, City Hall, San Francisco, CA                           San Francisco Open Studios

2008   San Francisco Open Studios

2007   Invitational Exhibition: “Arcadia: Artists Celebrate Trees,”
            San Francisco,CA
            Juried Exhibition: “Romancing the Figure,” Artisans Gallery,
            San Anselmo, CA
            Juried Exhibition: Marin County Fair, San Rafael, CA
            Juried Exhibition: C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco, CA
            Group Show: Psychoanalytic Institute: San Francisco, CA
2006    Juried Exhibition: Foxcommons Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
             San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
2005    Juried Exhibition: “Vessels,” Shokat Gallery, Oakland, CA
2004    Juried Exhibition: Marin County Fair, San Rafael, CA
             San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA
             Solo Exhibition: “Copericus’ Dream”
2003    Juried Exhibition: De Young Museum Art Center,
             San Francisco, CA
             Juried Exhibition: Marin County Fair, San Rafael, CA
             San Francisco Open Studios, San Francisco, CA

Education:

2014-2015  Sadie Valeri Atelier

2008   Art Students League, New York NY  Summer Program 

1998 to 2006   Fine Arts course work: City College of San Francisco,
                            San Francisco Art Institute Extension, UC Berkeley
                            Extension.

                        C.G. Jung Institute, Jungian Analyst
                        California Graduate School, Ph.D., Psychology
                        Lone Mountain College, M.A., Psychology
                        Michigan State University, B.S.

Born:                Lansing Michigan

Book Covers and interviews

2016 Susan's painting appears on the cover of Elizabeth Clark-Stern's book, Movement of the Moon.  Published by Fisher King Press. Click here to view the cover: https://fisherkingpress.com/n/product/movement-of-the-moon

2015 Susan's painting, Solo appears on the cover of Audrey Punnett's book, The Orphan A journey to Wholeness, Published by Fisher King Press.  Click here to view the cover: https://fisherkingpress.com/n/product/the-orphan

2014 Susan's painting, This Longing appears on the cover of Mark Winbor's book: Shared Realities, Published by Fisher King Press. Click here to see the cover. http://tinyurl.com/oqu6444

2012  Susan's painting, Out of the Fire appears on the cover of Frances Hatfield's poetry book. Rudiments of Flight, Published by Wings Press,http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=151

2010   Interview: Coming to Painting, Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche, Abstract: http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/jung.2010.4.4.102

2008   Susan's painting, Emerging Series #2, appears on the cover of Erel Shalit's book: "Enemy Cripple & Beggar--Shadows In The Hero's Path". Published by Fisher King Press. Click here to see the cover.

 

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