Susan Mckenna List

'Oil paintings by Susan List have become treasured keepsakes in many East Bay (San Francisco) homes, each a rendering of a loved one, a memorable destination or scene.' Linnea Smith Jessup, 'Local Luxuries,' Home and Design Magazine, Contra Costa Sun, April 2002.

'The world does look different after seeing these paintings of familiar scenes... A house at Moraga Way...always seemed in the background of daytime traffic - until I saw List's bold, geometric 'Yellow House' in an exhibit... Maybe this is the lesson... It's not about painting, it's about seeing.' Robert Taylor, Contra Costa Times, July 4, 2002

With more than three decades as a professional fine artist, Susan McKenna List's career includes prestigious juried national plein air competitions including The Carmel Art Festival, Sonoma Plein Air, solo, gallery and museum shows and her own studios/galleries on both US coasts. Trained as a California Impressionist by Society of Six descendant Pam Glover, List now works in Palm Beach, Florida, Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen and at a quiet northwestern New Jersey lake.

'I want to paint work that is strong, bright and free and prefer an intuitive, alla prima approach whether painting outdoors or in the studio. Florida offer...

Plein Air painting with Pam Glover
Plein Air & studio painting with Van Waldron
Studio oils, pastel portrait with Pam Della
Life drawing with Marilyn Hajjar
Workshops with Gregory Kondos, Terry St John, Tom Hughes, John Traynor, Nancie King Mertz, Eli Cedrone, Richard Claremont
BA in English, magna cum laude, Graduate work in Information Science

'Figure'
September 3 - September 30, 2019
NYArtCenter
7 Franklin Place
New York, New York

'Nature'
August 28 - September 24, 2019
Amsterdam Whitney Gallery
535 West 25th Street, Ground Floor, Chelsea
New York, New York

'PaintUs InterruptUs'
October 1 - October 31, 2019
676A Ninth Avenue at 48th Street
New York, New York