Suzanna Schlemm

Suzanna Schlemm is a full-time working artist with a solid body of work. She paints from observation and is particularly interested in the relationships among women: with each other, their children, work and with themselves. Originally from Brazil, Suzanna is currently based in Darien, CT and New York City.

Statement:
"The process of painting, for me, is parallel to living. It is not something I think about at all: it just happens to me and I act on it.

The imagery for my paintings surface in my mind, arising from a much deeper place. Most of the time they are prompted by something I see in day-to-day life, images that move me in such a familiar way that I just know they have to become a painting. When this happens I pay attention and try to register the ideas and images with notes, photographs and sketches in my little notebook, where all of my work is conceived. So even though I always paint from observation, most of the time I produce my own reference material, a collage of multiple elements (figures, backgrounds, animals, objects) usually in different mediums (photos, sketches, sometimes memory). The world passes through me and I download it all into slots I call paintings. It is a constant flow, and the more I bring th...

Painting Workshop with Alex Kanevsky, ES Paint - Madrid, Spain - 2015

Painting Certificate Program, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, NYC 2001 / 2002

Printmaking, School of Visual Arts, NYC - 2002

Illustration – School of Visual Arts, NYC - 2002

Anatomy for Artists – New York Art Student League, NYC - 2001

Portraiture in Pastel – New York Art Student League, NYC - 2001

Figure Drawing from Life – New York Art Student League, NYC - 2001 / 2002

Graphic Design – Parsons The New School of Design, NYC - 2001

Advertising & Communications – Bachelor’s, Universidade Helio Alonso, Rio de Janeiro, BR, 1992

Exhibits
2022 - All Things Being, Crown Gallery, Metro Art Studios, Bridgeport CT - group show

2021 - Mercedes Matter Awards Show, Margalit Startup City, NYC - group show

2021 - Mostraí, Brazilian Embassy, NYC - group show

2021 - Girls, Birds and Women, New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven CT - solo show

2020 - Mercedes Matter Awards Show, Margalit Startup City, NYC - group show

2020 - About Women, The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, Norwalk, CT - group show

2019 - New Members Show, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT - group show

2018 - Até Aqui, Galeria de Arte Brasileira, São Paulo, Brasil - solo show

2018 - Faces and Figure, Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT - group show

2012 - Grupo Parede, Museu Parque das Ruinas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - group show

2010 - Grupo Parede, Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - group show

Publications
2011 - Strokes of Genius 3 - The best of drawing - North Light Books