Susan Wolfe Huppman

Every painting starts with a leap into the unknown. I choose the direction but there are always unexpected discoveries along the way.

My work is very much driven by my process. Through this process of creation and destruction, by adding layers and elements and then erasing, effacing and obscuring them, the piece “becomes itself”. It is a material artifact of the constant struggle for balance in life.

I make luminous and atmospheric abstract paintings. My paintings do not insist on any particular interpretation. My work ranges from the stillness of weightless color field to more active compositions comprised of a personal visual language of gesture and form that, like music, speaks directly to the psyche. My work is an invitation to the viewer to pause, an encouragement to reawaken and to connect to a sphere beyond our shallow, unsatisfying and overly technological world.

Art is a portal to the vastness within and without. Art connects us to the boundlessness of possibility. Art gives us hope.


I studied Art History at Princeton, as well as painting, under Michael David, Harvey Quaytman and Heidi Gluck but particularly under the tutelage of Sean Scully who was my thesis show advisor. I studied Critical Theory under David Shap...

Princeton, AB, Art History/Visual Arts
Maryland Institute College of Art

Solo Exhibitions
2005 Antresian Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Baltimore, MD

Group Exhibitions

2025 Summer Group Exhibition, Bozzuto Greene Art, Lutherville, MD
2024 UNDER 2500, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2024 reGenerate, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2024 Gallery Artists, Bozzuto Greene Fine Art, Lutherville, MD
2023 Oriet's Fine Art Pop Up Show, Richmond, VA
2023 Gallery Artists, Bozzuto Greene Fine Art, Lutherville, MD
2023 Gallery Artists, Bozzuto Greene Fine Art, Lutherville, MD
2022 Holiday Art Group Show, Gallery Artists, Bozzuto Greene Fine Art, Lutherville, MD
2022 Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Group Show, Baltimore, MD
2021 Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD (Virtual)
2020 Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD (Virtual)
2019 Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD (Virtual)
2018 MPCDS Alumni, The Georges Gallery, Metairie, LA
2017 Art For Lands’ Sake, Valleys Planning Council, Caves Farm, Owings Mills, MD
2016 Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD
2015 Thrive, Jordan Faye Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2015 Art For Lands’ Sake, Valleys Planning Council, Caves Farm, Owings Mills, MD
2015 Gallery Artists, Maryland Saddlery Gallery, Butler, MD
2014 Gallery Artists, Maryland S...