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Susan J. Sauerbrun
Email susan@elmstreetstudio.net
Website http://www.susanjsauerbrun.com >> This web site features photos of the artist's work.

Personal Statement: My work in painting, drawing, and making books spans decades of committment to a visual discipline and to women's issues. It can be viewed in depth on my website.

There is an energy that keeps each of us alive. It makes us breathe. It is automatic. If you hold your breath, you will pass out and begin to breathe again. Some traditions call it Prana and some call it Chi. Trying to define it is very difficult. What does this vapor look like? How can I represent it in a work of art? These are two questions I deal with in my paintings.

Drawing is the heart of my practice. I draw every day.

Art is my private language. It allows me to produce work that is feral, quick, sensitive, and silent, and grounded, evolutionary, and calm.

Current Work
I am more of a "do-er" than a talker. I raise money for Planned Parenthood. I create affordable housing. I teach children. But first and foremost, I am an artist. I have just finished a solo show of my work at the Henry Gregg Gallery here in New York City.
Short Bio
Susan Sauerbrun is an artist who lives and works in New York City. She is the winner of both the American Drawing Biennial and the Pollock-Krasner Award and has exhibited her work in such diverse locations as Whitechapel Gallery in London and the Bronx Museum in New York.

Susan holds an MFA from Rutgers University MGSA. She is a founding member and former board member of London's ACME Housing Association and the ACME Gallery. She was an Artist in Residence at the Henry Street Settlement in Manhattan and the Longwood Arts Project in the Bronx.
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Artist Location
New York, NY

Type of artist
Painter/Sculptor, Other

General Themes
Activism/Social Justice, Art Forms/Art Criticism
Keywords
non-violence, drawing
Last updated on April 19th, 2006

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