Susan Sarback

Growing up in New York City, I was surrounded by great art from an early age. Wandering through museums and galleries as a child, I developed a love for art with depth, character, and beauty. As a teenager I was accepted into The High School of Art and Design, one of several specialized high schools in NYC that focused on the arts, where I studied both traditional and contemporary art. Moving to California, I continued my studies in college, with a focus on abstract art, and I received both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Fine Art.
After years of studying both abstract painting and representational art, I was still searching for more. I eventually found an American Impressionist painter, Henry Hensche, who studied in the lineage of Charles Hawthorne, William Merritt Chase, and Claude Monet. For many years, an in-depth study with this master painter helped me uncover the deeper secrets about light and color that I was searching for. I began to see and paint how light affects color creating form, atmosphere, and distance.
This approach to painting was based on visual receptivity to light and color. For me, it was about clarity and honesty. Using oil paint on panels, I became enthralled with capturing the qualities of light. Ov...

- Master of Arts, Columbia Pacific University
- Cape School of Art, (Henry Hensche) Provincetown, MA
- Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design, San Francisco, CA
- Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California
- BFA, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT
- Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
- H.S. of Art and Design, New York, New York
- Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Canada

- American Impressionist Society 7th Annual Impressions:
Small Works, 2023, Knoxville, TN
- American Impressionist Society, Virtual Exhibit, 2023
- California Art Club Biennale: Celebrating California, Roseville,
CA, 2022
- American Impressionist Society, Virtual Exhibit, 2022
- Blue Wing Gallery, Solo Exhibit, Woodland, CA 2021
- American Impressionist Society, 22th annual exhibition,
Omaha Nebraska, 2021
- Huse Skelly Gallery, "Ode to Spring" May 2021, Newport
Beach, CA
-109th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, California Art Club,
Hilbert Museum of California Art
- American Impressionist Society, 20th annual exhibition,
Salmagundi Club, NY, 2019
- Gallery at 48 Natoma - 3-person exhibition, Folsom, CA, 2019
- California Art Club, The Old Mill – “Canyons to Coves”,
Pasadena, CA 2018
- California Art Club – “The Shape of Water”, Altadena, CA,
2018
- American Impressionist Society, Small Works, Cincinnati,
Ohio, 2018
- Blue Wing Gallery, - 2-person exhibition, Woodland, CA, 2017
- Crocker Art Museum, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017
Sacramento, California