Susan Christian
The works here came out of a studio on the edge of Totten Inlet, a site that has completely dominated my life and vision for 50 years. The smaller pieces represent chips off of This Old World -- mountains that are sliced off of the surface so that I could concentrate on their shape, upon which I have had a crush since infancy (and so, I think, have you).
As I "grew up", I learned to look at the world as a cosmos rather than as a collection of individual elements; this is called "landscape". The one example here, the larger painting called "Pier", nevertheless also looks at the world in an unnatural way, in that the big space of "landscape" is always jammed into the arbitrary confines of a big old Euclidian rectangle. We have learned to be entirely comfortable with this confinement. It's super handy; it makes the visible world portable.
But I think it worth mentioning, in the context of our show's title: this old world has been here longer than rectangles, longer than corners, longer than straight lines, and longer than paint.
Education
Wellesley College/School of the Boston Museum of Fine Art/Cranbrook
Academy of Art BFA, Painting, 1969.
Antioch University Seattle, MA, Psychology, 1983.
Many trainings in Playback Theatre and psychodrama; many performances with True Story Theatre, Olympia Playback Theatre and Pasajers, theatre companies based in Olympia.
As I "grew up", I learned to look at the world as a cosmos rather than as a collection of individual elements; this is called "landscape". The one example here, the larger painting called "Pier", nevertheless also looks at the world in an unnatural way, in that the big space of "landscape" is always jammed into the arbitrary confines of a big old Euclidian rectangle. We have learned to be entirely comfortable with this confinement. It's super handy; it makes the visible world portable.
But I think it worth mentioning, in the context of our show's title: this old world has been here longer than rectangles, longer than corners, longer than straight lines, and longer than paint.
Education
Wellesley College/School of the Boston Museum of Fine Art/Cranbrook
Academy of Art BFA, Painting, 1969.
Antioch University Seattle, MA, Psychology, 1983.
Many trainings in Playback Theatre and psychodrama; many performances with True Story Theatre, Olympia Playback Theatre and Pasajers, theatre companies based in Olympia.
