About Susan Snipes
Art + Stories of Transformation
Artist’s Statement
My art is a quest for transformation in a time of ecological and spiritual concern. I employ intuitive and experimental approaches to process and materials, drawing on influences that include earth sciences, culinary arts, and mythology. Through scale, natural pattern, and repetition, I explore connections that cross time and species. The interplay of control, resistance, and chance alludes to the flow of life.
I engage various materials, including found objects, hand-made natural inks, beeswax crayons, and mineral pigments from foraged and local sources. My most recent works are informed by my attachment to Northeast Ohio, using regional materials and imagery that echo the place's color, texture, and story.
Artist Biography
Susan Snipes is a painter and interdisciplinary artist. She creates richly textured paintings about personal transformation using abstract organic forms.
Susan’s paintings have won multiple awards and have been exhibited nationally. Her art is in private collections across the United States.
Susan’s paintings have won multiple awards and have been exhibited nationally. Her art is in private collections across the United States.
Susan is pursuing an MFA in interdisciplinary arts at Vermont School of Fine Arts with an anticipated graduation in January 2024. She received a B.A. in Art History from Case Western Reserve University. Susan was born in Toledo, Ohio and lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Exhibitions
2022
CAN Triennial, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Member Exhibition, Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio
Member Exhibition, Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio
2021
Primal Disposition, Vestige Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Potential Energy (SOLO EXHIBITION), Suite 215 Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
May Show, The Gallery at Lakeland, Kirtland, Ohio
48th Hoyt Regional Juried Exhibition, Hoyt Art Center, New Castle, Pennsylvania - MERIT AWARD
Celestial Bodies, Adrian Center for the Arts, Adrian, Michigan - HONORABLE MENTION
BAYarts Annual Juried Exhibition 2021, Sullivan Gallery, Bay Village, Ohio
Art in Isolation, Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula, Ohio - HONORABLE MENTION
Potential Energy (SOLO EXHIBITION), Suite 215 Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
May Show, The Gallery at Lakeland, Kirtland, Ohio
48th Hoyt Regional Juried Exhibition, Hoyt Art Center, New Castle, Pennsylvania - MERIT AWARD
Celestial Bodies, Adrian Center for the Arts, Adrian, Michigan - HONORABLE MENTION
BAYarts Annual Juried Exhibition 2021, Sullivan Gallery, Bay Village, Ohio
Art in Isolation, Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula, Ohio - HONORABLE MENTION
2020
49th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Margaret “Peg” Bowen Gallery, Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Great Northern Art Explosion, AuSable Artisan Village, Grayling, Michigan
Art from the Shutdown, YARDS Projects, Cleveland, Ohio
Great Northern Art Explosion, AuSable Artisan Village, Grayling, Michigan
Art from the Shutdown, YARDS Projects, Cleveland, Ohio