THE ARTIST

Susan Eliza is a creator of images, objects and spaces.  Based in New York City since 2000, she is originally from Texas.  She received a Professional Degree in Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin where she learned about space, light, form and materiality.  She practiced modernist and contemporary architecture and design for 10+ years before committing fully to visual art in 2010. Her work is included in numerous private collections, and has been shown at both solo and group exhibitions in New York City, Memphis and Austin. 

THE WORK

We need to be discussing and redefining the human condition in relationship to contemporary developments. Science and technology are transforming our society at exponentially faster and faster rate; while, we humans are stuck at evolutionarily slow rate of change. How is this affecting our sense of human connection? our sense of value and meaning? and our well-being?

Susan’s work is a response to contemporary demands of machine-like precision, order, detachment and stamina achieved only through use of technology. It is a return to our nature and embraces the mental and physical limitations of humanity. It explores the relationship between the physical and the conceptual, between man and man-made, organic and synthetic, structure and disorder. Organic materials interact with and don’t quite stand up to a structured framework. Lines are drawn and redrawn in search to find where one being ends and another begins. Fingerprints suggest that man-made means hand-made. Cracks reveal what happens to natural materials/beings subject to temperature, air, decay and time. Fallen clay remains subject to the gravity of the planet we came from. Her work suggests that we may have more in common with the ground beneath our feet than we do with the tools we have created on top of it.

CONtACT

studio@susaneliza.com

917.593.0402