Susan Card

I believe Art is a visual language of communication that is unlike any other in that by seeing it provokes your imagination and often times moves your emotions. Intriguing color combinations can sometimes cause people to spontaneously dance or sing and that is my hope with my work.
I have found that people viewing my art with others often have a shared creative experience. People will point out things they see to each other and through a shared moment the piece sometimes inspires or enriches their lives.
The combined elements of light, color and motion ignite my work. A passion for moving liquid color and early years as a printmaker have allowed for a freeform graphic style to emerge.
Expressing joy and freedom is of primary importance to me.I seek to inspire the viewer’s imagination through painting various subjects. A dancer in flight surrounded by an energized luminous atmosphere, waves that are crashing releasing bubbles of intense color, or abstracts of saturated pigments piled one upon another.
By making marks using rubber erasers and tools, adding and subtracting vibrant color, pouring liquid paint, everything appears to be in motion. My intention is that as one considers a piece they see something new in it every t...

MA (Graphics) 1979 SUNY Albany, NY

Winner of ARTPOP 2016 Charlotte area Billboard Project My Art on a Billboard for the year

Exhibitions:

2016 27th Annual Juried Competition Arts Council of York County

2015 National Juried Exhibition “Back to the Garden” Ciel Gallery Charlotte NC

“Spring Into Art” Juried Competition Charlotte Art League NC

2014 25th Annual Juried Competition Arts Council of York County

2014 25th Annual Juried Competition Arts Council of York County
Summer Group Exhibit White Stone Gallery PA
Compact 20"x20" Louisiana State University Art Gallery

2013 Summer Group exhibit White Stone Gallery PA

2011 Holiday Art Show Providence Gallery, Historic Meyers,NC

2011 "Contrast" Group show BAKU Gallery Charlotte, NC

2010 Holiday Art Show Providence Gallery, Historic Meyers, NC

1987-2010 Fine Art & Craft Shows: Exhibiting Handcrafted Jewelry

2001 “Millennial Metal: The Art of Precious Metal Clay" Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield Ct

1985 “Regeneration” Brainard Gallery, Charleston, IL
"Ceramic Invitational”, Del Mano Gallery, Santa Monica

1983 “Lanes-Neiman-Pell” Adrienne Simard Gallery, LA CA
“Downtown L.A.-Between the Freeways” Palm Springs Desert Museum CA
“New Year Show 1” Art Rental G...