She currently lives and works in Minot, North Dakota. She has also been a Visiting Scholar in Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, in NYU, New York City. Amundaraín holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Denver in Colorado, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Metropolitan State University, CO. Susana generally builds her paintings through a multiple layering of color transparencies and eroded surfaces, in a balance between structured and atmospheric space.
Her work has been reviewed in Art News, Art Nexus, El Papel Literario de El Nacional (Caracas), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Viceversa magazine (NYC) among many others. It’s also included in many private and corporate collections, such as PepsiCO, Fundación Polar, and ALCOA. Amundaraín’s work is represented in museums in South America and the United States, including the Galería de Arte Nacional and Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, and Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá. Her drawings, paintings and installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Susana Amundaraín is a Venezuelan-born American artist. This I find to be the closest to an active form of meditation, which in turn allows us a path to our unknown selves. I am always in awe of the possibilities of color in areas of very low light, or very diffused light, and I am continually attracted to the poetic in quiet pictorial surfaces.
#Ipaint coloring sheets scythes windows#
Their transparency and tangible reality had a particular appeal to me: small windows of Earth substance and presence. Many years ago I started incorporating natural mica pieces as accents in my paintings. Occasionally I play with fragments of paper collaged to the canvas, or canvas collaged to the paper. Sometimes it feels as fluid as inks, and then, it can reverse to being textural and thick. Acrylic is my favorite medium because of its versatility. They surface again and again as I paint, evolving and becoming new forms of reality. These are ‘pictures’ that have stayed with me without aging, images that become paintings to share. I usually remember it as an intense connection in abstract form, imbedded with a singular atmosphere, a unique signature.
The idea that, sometimes, the experience of a painting can stay with you all your life has always had a strong resonance with the way I feel about place.
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