about
Susan Spies is an artist living and working in San Francisco. Her abstract paintings are a
reflection on the places where man and landscape intersect; cantilevered steel structures that reach across the water, houses built into hillsides, and freeway as it curves along the rolling hills or spans the gaps in between.
From her studio in an old naval shipyard on the edge on San Francisco Bay – the combination of amazing natural vistas and the constructs created to control it are ever present. Her paintings illustrate the notion of vastness, ponder our assertion over it, and capture the experience of land, water, space, time and light.
Susan has exhibited paintings in galleries in northern California, Atlanta, Georgia, and the South of France. Her paintings are included in private and corporate collections across the country. Raised on the east coast, Susan is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s School of Art.
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education
B.F.A. 1992 Studio Art University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
continuing education 1997-2005 UC Berkeley Extension
San Francisco City College
residencies
2007 Painting's Edge, Idyllwild, CA
2006 A.I.R. Vallauris, Vallauris, France
2003 The Cooper Union, New York, NY
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bibliography
"Engineered Constructs: A Minmalist Space," Metro, February 15, 2006
"Concentrating on Color," San Francisco Examiner, April 13, 2001
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selected exhibitions
2010
SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Huff Harrington Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2009
"New Works" Warm Springs Gallery, Warm Springs, VA
Huff Harrington Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2008
SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Huff Harrington Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Sloan Miyasato/Michelle Bello Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2007
"Luminosity" Huff Harrington Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
"Life to the Full", Collaboration, vamiali's at ReMap [KM]
project, Athens, Greece
"Painting's Edge", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Recent Works, Cabana Home, Mill Valley,CA
2006
"Bittersweet" Solo show, Gallerie Aqui Siam Ben, Vallauris, France
"Engineered Constructs: A Minimalist Space" 3 person show, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
"Rearranging Reality" Huff Harrington Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Sloan Miyasato/Michelle Bello Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
"Geometric Deconstruction" California Modern, San Francisco
2005
“30”, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Studio 333, Sausalito, CA
2004
Limn, San Francisco, CA
Embarcadero ArtWalk; juried show; San Francisco, CA
Pieces Gallery, Healdsburg, CA
Red Poppy Art House, invitational show, San Francisco, CA
"MAP: Mission Arts Party" invitational, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2003
Limn, San Francisco, CA
Pieces Gallery, Healdsburg, CA
"Summer '03" Cooper Union Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Limn, San Francisco, CA
SW3, House of Red, invitational show, San Francisco, CA
New Function Old Forms, solo exhibition, Burlingame, CA
2001
"Scrambled Edge", Emeryville, CA
Recent Works (solo), Fringale Restaurant, San Francisco
San Francisco Open Studios
Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
2000
“8” Rizzolli Gallery, curator: Craig Zaretsky, San Francisco
Recent Works (solo), Infusion, San Francisco
Guru.com Awards Show Exhibition, San Francisco
San Francisco Open Studios
White Tiger Gallery, Nashville, TN
1999
S.T.A.R. Auction, San Francisco
San Francisco Open Studios
HWY1 Creative Showcase, San Francisco
1998
San Francisco Open Studios
1997
San Francisco Open Studios
1992
BFA Show, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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