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SUSAN SULLIVAN    gallerybiographyphd exhibitionfeatured press

St. Louis native, Susan Sullivan earned her BFA in Painting from Kansas City Art Institute in 2002. She was awarded the Rosalie Tilles Scholarship, which provided her full tuition for four years. During her time at KCAI, she was commissioned by the Dean of Students to do a portrait.

In her latest works, Sullivan has abandoned the traditional brush and canvas entirely in favor of the palette knife. She enjoys the contrast of her delicate figures with the rough wood boards and tough palette knife strokes. The paintings in her landscape series, often created with tools intended for construction rather than art, depict the artist's experience of a certain place at a certain time with very few carefully planned strokes.

The artist often works on a very small scale. Her pocket-sized paintings take on new meaning when viewed as a large group. Each landscape is painted in one sitting from a picture taken by the artist, and groupings of her paintings read like photo albums, documenting where she has been.

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