Susan C. White

  • Susan C. White’s paintings explore the human instinct to seek order when experiencing the world’s chaos. When attempting to categorize our experiences, we may reach for the languages of science, art, and spirituality, which often borrow from one another. White builds a vocabulary of small figures inspired by natural history museum collections. Arranged on a painted field, these “symbols” are at once anatomical, botanical and spiritual as they slip back and forth between references to the personal body and abstract symbols of the divine.

  • Exhibitions
  • White has exhibited her work in 30 solo shows and over 100 group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her work is collected by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, American Embassy in Algeria, Fidelity Investments, New York, NY, Citicorp, New York, NY, Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, CA, Linklaters, New York, NY , Meniscus Medical Communications, Philadelphia, PA, The Prudential Insurance Company of America, New York, NY, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, Kirkwood Community College, Conference Center and permanent commission, Cedar Rapids, IA, University of Iowa Foundation, Iowa City, IA, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, PCI, St. Lukes Hospital, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She is working on her tenth large-scale public commission.
     
    Her work has been reviewed in over 80 periodicals including The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Arts Magazine, Art News, New York Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Chicago Sun Times, The Chicago Tribune, New Art Examiner, Review magazine and over fifty other publications.
     
  • Works
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