Susan E. Squires
Encaustic / Mixed Media
About The Artist
Born and currently residing in Cleveland, Ohio, Susan Squires attended Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. She received her B.F.A. from Cleveland Institute of Art in 1983.
Subsequently, Squires studied art and art history in Italy with the University of Georgia and the University of Texas. In 2000, she participated in a five week Printmaking Residency in Dresden, Germany through a grant from the Ohio Arts Council and Zygote Press.
Since 2002, Squires has shown with the Arte e Pensieri Gallery in Rome, Italy. She also has work in Spoleto, Perugia and Pisa. Susan travels extensively and dances Argentine Tango.
Statement
Squire's encaustic/mixed media works are typically quiet meditations with psychological and spiritual implications. Her influences range from literary and musical passages, current events, landscape space and growth forms to architecture, archetypical images and symbols and most recently geometric systems.
Both rational and intuitive, the pieces are "poetic" interpretations of subtle states of being. Addressing the mind/body/spirit continuum, Squires displays a deep reverence for the past, a desire to explore uncharted terrain, yet the work is confidently grounded in the present.
Subsequently, Squires studied art and art history in Italy with the University of Georgia and the University of Texas. In 2000, she participated in a five week Printmaking Residency in Dresden, Germany through a grant from the Ohio Arts Council and Zygote Press.
Since 2002, Squires has shown with the Arte e Pensieri Gallery in Rome, Italy. She also has work in Spoleto, Perugia and Pisa. Susan travels extensively and dances Argentine Tango.
Statement
Squire's encaustic/mixed media works are typically quiet meditations with psychological and spiritual implications. Her influences range from literary and musical passages, current events, landscape space and growth forms to architecture, archetypical images and symbols and most recently geometric systems.
Both rational and intuitive, the pieces are "poetic" interpretations of subtle states of being. Addressing the mind/body/spirit continuum, Squires displays a deep reverence for the past, a desire to explore uncharted terrain, yet the work is confidently grounded in the present.
SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2008 ... Beyond the Surface
Cuyahoga County Community
College, Cleveland, OH
... New Works
River Gallery- Rocky River, OH
2007 ... Come Closer
Wooltex Gallery, Cleveland, OH
... Revive
Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
2006 ... Convergence 2006
Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
... Contemporaries 8
Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH
... Cleveland/Spoleto
Albornoz Palace, Spoleto, Italy
... Foreign Affairs
Standehaus, Dresden, Germany
