Susan Pasquarelli
Taos, NM
Light Rings
Watercolor on paper
12” x 12”, 15” x 15” framed
2020
$900
About
Born and raised in California, I received a BA in Art History from UC Berkeley. In the 1970s I moved to Philadelphia. I went to graduate school in New York in 1980. There I studied drawing and painting at Brooklyn College with Lee Bontecou, Phillip Pearlstein, Lois Dodd, and Alan D’Arcangelo. After receiving an MFA in 1982, I began showing my work as well as teaching drawing and painting for twenty years.
Shortly after moving to Taos in 2004, I was awarded a three-month residency at the Harwood Museum of Art. My work has been shown in museums and galleries throughout the U.S.—including twenty solo exhibitions in New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC. I have received several fellowships and awards including a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Artist Statement
My approach to painting is a process involving gradual change. This allows for chance to be fundamental to the finished visual image. The careful practice I follow allows for a welcome detachment that gives me a sense of freedom to observe the piece as it slowly takes shape.
I am a working artist and integrate my daily life with the discipline of painting and drawing. I believe that making art can be a way to manifest aspects of nature that are often beyond the merely perceptual or decorative. My paintings are not literal compositions. I like to think of my work as reflecting nature, a part of the process of nature in its various forms. As the art historian Anada Coomaraswamy writes:”Like nature, not in appearance, but in its manner of operation.” My intention is to make a personal vision that communicates universally.
Art from Susan Pasquarelli in other TAAC exhibitions
