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Susan Monserud’s work reflects the process of abstraction by recalling, reinterpreting, and recreating natural forms. Elements of the landscape such as topography, grasses, moss, trees, or vines are reduced to their essential structures and rhythms and typically serve as points of departure. Simplified aspects of the natural world are explored through the interplay of line, color and brushwork/mark-making as well as through the patterns found in repetition. Art and design have been the focus of her entire career, first as an artist and art teacher, then as a practicing architect and now as a full-time painter. She graduated from an art school in Norway after studying fine arts in college. In recent years she has been a visiting drawing critic at the Yale School of Architecture. Presently, she is a producer for a documentary film, Gramercy Stories (produced, directed, and edited by Joyce Chopra). Her paintings and drawings are in numerous private collections throughout the US. Prior to devoting full-time to painting
and drawing, she combined architectural practice for projects in
the US and abroad with teaching at Boston University School of Public
Health. She served as a consulting architect-planner for numerous
health care projects in the eastern US and in Africa, the Middle
East, Central Asia and the Caribbean. She has a Master of Architecture degree from NC State University School of Design, Raleigh, NC; a Certificate from the National School for Art and Education, Notodden, Norway; and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota.
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