Susan Wasinger

My paintings attempt to gain a more complete understanding about the forces —both seen and unseen— at work in the world. At times, I like to explore the simple shapes and textures that populate our visual landscapes. Other times, I try to trace the journey that light takes across the surface of things. Sometimes, I like to observe the forms that repeat in the natural world, forming the vocabulary of a rudimentary visual language that we all recognize and understand: I love the way certain clusters of shapes begin to form a face. How a bit of geometry can hint at a sentient life form hidden within. How we search for certain patterns that we recognize as alive and others we imagine to be somehow inanimate. All the things we know without knowing we know. My work hopes to give visual voice to the ghosts of energy and activity that have created objects in the world, the blurred path of busy hands, the electric spark of intention, the tangled threads of thought and feeling and creation. My greatest delight is in tracking the forces that are constantly at work on all things-- both from the inside and the out. All these things leave traces, and art, in some of its best moments, outlines, highlights, honors those complicated and miraculous...

University of Colorado
BA Journalism and Anthropology, 1980

University of California at Los Angeles
Video and Film School, 1979

The British Institute - Florence, Italy
Italian and Renaissance Art, 1982

Post Graduate: University of Colorado
Linguistics, 1983

SHOWS and GALLERIES

2 0 2 0 Red Brick Art Center – Aspen, Colorado USA
Group Show "Colorado 2020". Juror Award: Honorable Mention

2 0 1 8 The Lincoln Center — Fort Collins Colorado (SOLO SHOW "Wow & Flutter: And the Uncertainty of Outcomes" An exhibit of a dozen new works in the Lobby Gallery May 4th through June 23rd)

2 0 1 8 Museum of Boulder — Boulder Colorado ("There, Here, Near" group exhibit, a collaboration between the Conference on World Affairs and the Museum of Boulder)

2 0 1 7 Jen Tough Gallery — Vallejo California (Juried show at this esteemed, avant-garde gallery in the San Francisco Bay Area)

2 0 1 7 Niza Kroll Gallery — Denver Colorado
("Wax Stories" national juried show of encaustic art )

2 0 1 7 Foothills Art Center — Golden Colorado
("Amuse Yeux" show featuring small-format art)

2 0 1 7 Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition— Brooklyn, New York (National Show juried by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Curatorial Assistant, Beth Saunders

2 0 1 6 New Mexico AIPP Large Scale Art Initiative (Inclusion in a showcase of large-scale art for use in public exhibitions throughout the state)

2 0 1 6 Edge Gallery — Denver Colorado (Annual Contemporary Works juried by Dean Sobel, ...