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Susan Schiesser Ohio 1955 EDUCATION1990 San Francisco Art Institute, B.A. Program, Painting 1989 College of Marin, Kentfield, California 1977 Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 1976 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
ARTIST'S STATEMENTA long time of flying from here to there has provided an interest in the view from the window seat . I now require those moments of reflection, introspection, the total detachment, and the casual curiosity I find when traveling by air. Temporarily separated from my day-to-day, passing over entire continents, the drama of millions unfolding below... being in the present while surrounded by a seeming lack of it... travel and it's journey have become a form of meditation punctuated with urban lightshows, subliminally perceived crop signs, seemingly endless water, reverie, memory, anticipation... and white noise. Recreating aspects of the distancing and the resulting abstractions, peppered heavily with experience and intuition, are the focus of my current body of work. Adding helicopters into the mix of the medium, I am able to get a good visual on the land-patterns I seek, as I continue to explore the language of paint. My favorite and most inspirational teacher from SFAI is abstract expressionist painter, Julius Hatofsky. Julius, a consummate New Yorker who boasted 80+ years without ever owning a car or a drivers' license, said, “Making a painting is like riding a bus... all kinds of interesting things can happen along the way and if you miss your stop you can usually ride the line again.”
REPRESENTED BYSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artists' Gallery Schiesser Gallery, Steamboat Springs CO
EXHIBITIONS2007 Marizart Gallerie, Hamburg, Germany, January 2005 2006 elements of landscape, full house, studio gallery 27, Steamboat CO 2005 2004 new paintings: TEI Gallery, Steamboat CO 2003 Valley Views The Red Brick, Aspen CO 2002 The Truth About Dave, ‘02 Open Studio Tour / RiverArt Studio/Gallery, CO 2001 Faces from the Mountains Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts, Steamboat CO 2000 – 2006 Open Studio Tours
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2006 www.project30.com Exhibits: January, February, and May 2002 Body of Water, Small Works Gallery, Winter Visions Mad Creek Gallery, CO 2001 Miniatures Mad Creek Gallery, CO 2000 New Works, Cionni & Schiesser Red Barn Studio Gallery, CO Summer Art 2000 Depot Art Center, CO Trees - An Artist's View, Cups, Landscape in Two Colors, Workshop Work Small Works Gallery, Steamboat Springs, CO 1999 Mixed Media Painters Society Fall Exhibit The Red Brick, Aspen, CO Winter Works 1999, Summer Art ‘99 Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts Steamboat Springs, CO Mixed Media Invitational, Steamboat Springs Arts Council, CO 1998 Recent Landscapes, Full Moon Gallery Cafe, CO 1997 Winter Works, Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts, CO 1996 Open Studio, Schoonacher Building, Sausalito, California 1995 Plein Air Painters, 555 Cleveland (Gallery) Petaluma, California 1994 Members Invitational, Ross Valley Artists Guild Ross, California 1990 and 1991 SFAI Spring Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1989 Marin College Student's Exhibition, Campus Gallery Kentfield, California HONORS AND AWARDS2006 January Exhibit @ PROJEKT30 2006 February Exhibit @ PROJEKT30 2006 May Exhibit @ PROJEKT30 2005 Best of Show Texas Artists' Museum's 12 th Annual Gulf Coast Art Port Arthur TX (2002) 30th Anniversary Exhibit
Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts, CO Body of Water 1997
Winter Works 1995
Members Invitational
PUBLICATIONSSteamboat Magazine, Winter 2006/2007 Artscape Southwest Art Magazine, Artist to Watch, November 2005 Issue
WORKSHOPS & ADDITIONAL STUDYErica Osborne, Albuquerque Joe Santori, New York School Susan Haas Ohme, Josette Urso, New York Chester Arnold, Plein Air Painting
COLLECTIONS *corporateAbernathy, NM
AFFILIATIONS & ORGANIZATIONSBoard Member, Steamboat Springs Public Arts Commission, 2-year assignation Director/Owner, Schiesser Gallery, 2005 – Curator, TEI Modern Contemporary Gallery 2004-2005 Founder, ArtLink Steamboat, 2003 - 2006 Mixed Media Painters School of SS Artists of Steamboat Springs Director, Small Works Gallery, 1998-2002
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