Susan White

Bio

Susan White creates a poetic framework through which she engages the dialogue between nature and culture.

White works with thorns from the honey locust tree to create both discrete sculptures and wall installations. Their complex geometry and the challenge inherent in working with them provide apt metaphors for the political and social issues addressed in the work.

Additionally, White creates pyrographs, or burn drawings. By transforming the nature of the paper itself to reveal the mark, these drawings become a meditation on topography. The influence of an artist residency in Tokyo in 2010 is pervasive throughout her work.

Susan White has created large scale installations at the Salina Art Center, Looking Inside the Box/ Drawing a Line Between the Manufacturing Plant and the Gallery (2001) and at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska, Navigating the Neurosphere (2008.) Her 94 foot piece, Lyric Lascaux, was installed on the side of the Lyric Theatre in Kansas City as part of the Avenue of the Arts Foundation exhibition (2006).

She has received grants from the Metropolitan Arts Council, the Lighton International Artist Exchange Program, the Salina Art Center, and the Avenue of the Arts Foundation. Writings about her work have been published in ArtPapers, The Kansas City Star, Review and the Salina Journal along with other print and on-line venues. White’s work is found in the collections of the Nerman Museum, Sprint Corporation, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Shook, Hardy & Bacon, the Kansas City Chiefs among other corporations and in private collections in Dallas, Oakland, Washington, DC and Kansas City.

Susan White received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and a BA from Drury University. She studied at the Institute for American Universities in Avignon and pursued graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design.

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