“My work investigates interconnectivity and the fluid nature of perception. I explore the creative potential of trusting the artistic process and seek to override the knowable. I am beholden to color, color as material, color as subject matter. Bridget Riley states it well:
“Color turns out to be a perfect vehicle for me, because it is made up of harmonies as well as contrasts and though unstable and fugitive, it also comes through a powerful presence in its own right.”
I’m interested in the possibilities of structure and ambiguity coexisting in my paintings, of shifting spaces where shapes, moments and memories continuously reform.
I engage with the concept of the painting as temporal landscape, a repository of collected moments.” – Susan Dory
Susan Dory is a Seattle-based artist who has been working professionally for over 25 years. She earned her BS from Iowa State University and has exhibited her work in galleries and museums across the United States and internationally. Her exhibitions include Winston Wächter Fine Art in New York and Seattle, Margaret Thatcher Projects in New York, Columbus State University in Georgia, the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina, and the Victoria Art Gallery in British Columbia, Canada.
Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Tacoma Art Museum, the Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art in Ballycastle, Ireland, the U.S. Embassy in Vientiane, Laos, as well as collec- tions of the Seattle Arts Commission, King County Arts Commission, 4Culture (Seattle), Microsoft, Vulcan Enterprises, Swedish Hospital, Hewlett-Packard, W. Clements Jr. University Hospital in Dallas, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom.
Susan is the recipient of several awards and grants, including the Neddy Foundation Award, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Artist Trust Fellowship, and the GAP Grant. She was also a finalist for the Betty Bowen Award from the Seattle Art Museum.
She has participated in artist residencies at Centrum in Port Townsend, WA; the Espy Foundation in Oysterville, WA; and the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland.
Her public art commissions include installations for T.F. Green International Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island; the King County Library in Sammamish, WA; and the Everett Events Center in Everett, WA.
