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Susan Barrett

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

BAU Gallery, Time,  Annual Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Juror Elizabeth Heskin ,  Beacon NY,  2020

The Painting Center, Ensemble: Together Again, online exhibition ARTSY, New York NY, 2020

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Stay Home Make Art, curated by Anna Conlon, online exhibition  New Paltz, NY,  2020

Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, Sparkill,  NY, 2020

Rye Art Center, Rye , NY 2020

Historic 1928 Anna Bisland House, Bronxville NY,  Transformative Light, Real & Imagined (solo) 2019

Somers Art Gallery, Somers ,NY, (solo), 2019

Art Show Bedford , Bedford NY (invitational), 2018

Volition Gallery, BELLans  Center for the Creative Arts, Orangeburg, NY, 2018

Riverarts Studio Tour, Brieff Studios, Tarrytown ,NY, 2018

Union Art Center, Sparkhill, NY, 2018

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, 2017

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, 2016

Martin Stankiewicz Gallery, Tarrytown, NY, Susan Barrett Paintings (solo), 2015

Edward Hopper Museum &  Art Center, Nyack, NY, 2014

Hennesey House, Susan Barrett Paintings, (solo) Tarrytown NY,  2011

Fitzgerald Gallery, Susan Barrett Paintings, (solo) Tarrytown NY, 2009 and 2005

Red Wing Gallery, Tarrytown, NY,  2007

Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY, 2001

Scarborough Gallery, Susan Barrett Paintings, (solo) Chappaqua, NY, 1995 and 97

Inroads Gallery, Susan Barrett Paintings, (solo)  New York, NY,  1986

Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY 1986

Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY  1985

Brooklyn Federal Courthouse, Brooklyn, NY 1984

Inroads Gallery, Susan Barrett Paintings, (solo)  New York, NY,  1984 

Hunter College Gallery, New York, NY 1983


ARTIST REGISTRIES

http://www.thepaintingcenter.org/art-file 

https://www.hudsonvalleymoca.org/

https://artswestchester.org/artists/directory/visual/

http://www.edwardhopperhouse.org/artist-member-gallery

https://www.ryeartscenter.org/artist-members


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1992-PRESENT

Art Workshops, Extension Programs & Art Education for children and adults.

Pelham Art Center

Intervillage Art Workshop; Portchester, Hastings, Irvington, Dobbs Ferry, Scarsdale

Westchester Public Library Systems

Public Schools, tenured: 1999-present

Curriculum Design, Project Development, Interdisciplinary Curricula, Grant Writing, Differentiation for Special Needs 


EDUCATION

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

Pace University, Pleasantville, NY; Advanced Certificate in Art Education

Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts, New York, NY; summer workshop

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

Aspects and Ambiguities of Contemporary Realism, Thesis (M.A.)--City University of New York Hunter College.  Interview with Chuck Close annotated in appendix. 



Artist's Statement

    My paintings are reimaginings of my accumulated memories and observations.  I work to create layers of meaning and explore the complexities with which we perceive the world.   In our contemporary experience we are bombarded with a barrage of images. I work to 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.  Figuration, the object, and the perception of the world can be presented in infinite ways. I continue to interpret and represent my world view in an ever-evolving process. 

     

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Susan Barrett

         Barrett explores the ordinary and ways it can be transformed by both light and the juxtaposition of objects and situations. She reacts to her environment, internalizing the objects she focuses on. The work comes from a synthesis of these subjects, as they exist and as she imagines them. The light transforms reality, suggesting a sense of an extended moment in time as the viewer visually travels through the work.

         For years Barrett has been taking photographic notes and collecting imagery that serves as a collective library of subjects to draw upon when creating acrylic paintings, watercolors, drawings and collages. A lifelong resident of the Hudson Valley, many of the structures she adopts come from the riverside or the river towns where she discovered them. When Barrett works, she is often weaving together images from sometimes completely different sources or perhaps intertwining multiple perspectives of the same place. Barrett collages the photos digitally or with scissors and glue, creating composites that she paints from. The synthesis may be subtle or presented as an open dialogue as in a diptych. This conversation between imagery and the light that reveals it is at the center of Barrett’s work.

          Barrett did her undergraduate work at Rhode Island School of Design and New York University. She then received an M.A. in painting from Hunter College as well as a degree in art education. She has exhibited throughout the New York metropolitan area in both galleries and institutions and has been teaching for 25 years. Most recently, she had a solo exhibition at the Anna Bisland Historic 1928 House in Bronxville, was included in “Time, " (2019) a curated group show at BAU Gallery, Beacon (2020).

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