Susan Dirende

What gives me joy in the world is experiencing still moments in the process of unfolding, whether a hillside that kneads its earth in geologic time or an insect perched, its arrival and departing flight reverberating in the frozen moment. My small work tends toward the figurative and my larger works the abstract. In everything, I need to see the arc of change, not as a photo would capture a bird in flight but the way we experience the ephemeral now that is never really there by the time we notice it.

Art Is a Living Thing group show
Aratoi Museum
Masterton, NZ
Dec-Jan 2017

A Year in Miniature
Broad Humor Women's Comedy Festival
solo show& workshop
April 2016


Otherness
MicroMarché, Brussels, Belgium
solo show
video and visual arts
February, 2016


Our Ladies of Xochi Quetzal
Gonzales Gallo #1B
group show
July 2015

A Year in Miniature - Summer in New Zealand
19 Tory Street Gallery, Wellington, NZ
solo show
April 2015

A Year in Miniature - Summer in New Zealand
New Zealand Pacific Studios, Mt. Bruce, NZ
group show
March 2015

Flora & Fauna 2015
Pukaha Mt. Bruce Nature Centre, Mt. Bruce, NZ
group show
March 2015

Silicon Valley Small Works 2014
Vargas Gallery, Santa Clara, CA
group show
December 2014

Form and Emptiness
Electric Lodge, Venice, CA
two-person show
August 2014