Susan Barrett is a painter and mixed-media artist whose work explores themes of time, place and transformation. She did her undergraduate work at Rhode Island School of Design and New York University, received a Master’s degree in painting from Hunter College and a degree in art education.
2022
The Painting Center: The Indivisible Spectrum, curated group show, New York NY.
Refrigerator Poetry Archive, February edition, featured in online exhibition.
Dodomu Gallery: Structured Spaces, juried online exhibit, Brooklyn NY.
2021
Trolley Barn Gallery/Barrett Art Center: Of an Era, International Juried Show curated by Jova Lynne, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit MI, Poughkeepsie NY. Winner: the honorable mention award.
Peep Space Flat File (curated), Peep Space Gallery, Tarrytown NY.
Refrigerator Poetry Archive, September edition, featured in online exhibition.
Upstream Gallery, Juried Paperworks Exhibit: Layers of Time, Hastings on Hudson NY.
Emerge Gallery, Fotographia, juried show, ARTSY, Saugerties, NY.
Edward Hopper Museum & Art Center, Nyack NY.
2020
BAU Gallery, Time, Annual Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Juror, Elizabeth Heskin, Beacon NY.
The Painting Center, Ensemble: Together Again, online exhibition ARTSY, New York NY.
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Stay Home Make Art, curated by Anna Conlon, online exhibition, New Paltz, NY.
Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, Sparkill NY.
Rye Art Center, Rye NY.
2019
Historic 1928 Anna Bisland House, Bronxville NY, Transformative Light, Real & Imagined (SOLO)
Somers Art Gallery, Somers, NY, (SOLO)
2018
Art Show Bedford , Bedford NY (invitational),
Volition Gallery, BELLans Center for the Creative Arts, Orangeburg, NY.
RiverArts Studio Tour, Brieff Studios, Tarrytown NY.
2017
Union Art Center, Sparkhill, NY.
2016
Edward Hopper Museum & Art Center, Nyack, NY, Small Matters of Great Importance, Annual Juried Small Works Show. Juror: Michelle Donnelly, Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Ceres Gallery, 12th Annual Juried Exhibition, New York, NY. Juror Carmen del Valle Hermo, Assistant Curator for Collections at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY.
2015
Martin Stankiewicz Gallery, Tarrytown, NY, Susan Barrett Paintings (SOLO)
Edward Hopper Museum & Art Center, Nyack, NY.
2011
Hennessey House, Susan Barrett Paintings, (SOLO) Tarrytown NY.
2009
Fitzgerald Gallery, Susan Barrett Paintings, (SOLO) Tarrytown NY.
2007
Red Wing Gallery, Tarrytown, NY.
1997
Pelham Art Center, Faculty Exhibit, Pelham, NY
1995
Scarborough Gallery, Susan Barrett Paintings, (SOLO) Chappaqua, NY,
1992
Scarborough Gallery, Susan Barrett Paintings, (SOLO) Chappaqua, NY,
1988
Inroads Gallery, Susan Barrett Paintings, (SOLO) New York, NY.
Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY
Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Inroads Gallery, Susan Barrett Paintings, (SOLO) New York, NY.
Brooklyn Federal Courthouse, Brooklyn, NY.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence R.I.
New York University, New York, NY; B.S. cum laude in fine arts
Hunter College, New York, NY; M.A. painting
"Aspects and Ambiguities of Contemporary Realism," Thesis (M.A.)--City University of New York Hunter College. Interview with Chuck Close annotated in appendix. Pace University, Pleasantville, NY; Pace University, Advanced Certificate in Art Education
Additional:
Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts, New York, NY; workshops
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY; Portfolio Development Program
New York University Artist Apprentice Program; H.N. Han artist mentor
New York University Graduate Extension Program; Don Eddy artist mentor
1992-PRESENT
Public Schools, NYS permanent certification, tenured.
Curriculum Design, Project Development, Interdisciplinary Curricula, Grant Writing, Differentiation for Special Needs.
Art Workshops, Extension Programs & Art Education for children and adults:
Pelham Art Center
Intervillage Art Workshops: Portchester, Hastings, Irvington, Dobbs Ferry, Scarsdale
Westchester Public Library Systems
In my practice I reimagine my accumulated memories and observations. I create a sense of place and time, exploring the complexities with which we perceive the world. In our contemporary experience we are bombarded with a barrage of images. I represent a perceptual reality from this montage of imagery--snapshots mitigated by memory and the light that illuminates it all.
For years I have been taking photographic notes and collecting imagery that serves as a collective library of subjects to draw upon when creating paintings and collages. When I work, I often weave together images from sometimes completely different sources or perhaps intertwine multiple perspectives of the same place. I collage the photos digitally or with scissors and glue, creating composites that I paint from. The synthesis may be subtle or presented as an open dialogue as in a diptych. This conversation between imagery is at the center of my work. There is no formula.
I develop a bond with my subjects, often creating a series of works based on the same place or structure. I attach meaning to the inanimate world, houses become bystanders to a drama of sorts, as I try to elevate suburban landscapes into psychological portraits.
Though I operate out of an American Realist tradition I also draw upon aesthetic inventions from Surrealism and Pop Art--all artists who represent the ordinary in extraordinary ways.
Susan Barrett is a painter and mixed-media artist whose work has been exhibited in New York City and throughout the Hudson Valley. Most recently her work was included in “The Indivisible Spectrum” at The Painting Center in Manhattan. She had a solo exhibition at the Anna Bisland Historic 1928 House in Bronxville in 2019, titled “Transformative Light, Real & Imagined” and was included in “Time,” a curated group show at BAU Gallery in Beacon NY 2020. In 2021, she won the honorable mention award for paintings included in “Of an Era: an International Juried Show,” at the Trolley Barn Gallery, Poughkeepsie NY curated by Jova Lynne, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit MI, as well as being included in various juried exhibits. Barrett did her undergraduate work at Rhode Island School of Design and New York University. She received a M.A. in painting from Hunter College as well as a degree in art education.
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