Over the past 13 years, Susan’s work has been selected for a number of local, national, and international exhibitions. Jurors who have selected her work include curators from prominent institutions, including the UC Berkeley Art Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, the New York MOMA, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her work has been included in several fiber art journals. In 2022 Susan was awarded a residency at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, and in 2019 she was a summer resident at Otis College in Los Angeles. She will undertake a three-month residency at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley in the fall of 2026. She holds two masters degrees and a B.A. in English from the University of California and is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. Her art education has consisted of 60 units of Fine Arts credit classes undertaken at local community colleges over a period of 10 years. For the past 7 years she has been an assistant to and mentee of Carole Beadle (Emeritus Art Professor, CCA) at the College of Marin in Ms. Beadle’s fiber sculpture classes.
Susan’s work explores the potential and limitations of materials to create a sense of spaciousness and light. Her work is characterized by a strong sense of color exploration achieved through her work with natural plant dyes. She combines dyes and changes hues through processes reminiscent of alchemy to develop a unique color palette. Her exploration of the grid format offers poetic interpretations of formal elements such as line, shape, and space.
