ABOUT
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About the artist
Susan Graham - MBA, BA Hon, AOCA
Jane at OCA, 18x24", acrylic & collage on board, OCA YearsSusan Graham graduated from the Ontario College of Art in sculpture and bronze-casting. She was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Scholarship which funded her final year art-school off-campus in Italy. She worked at the Co-operativa Bottega Versiliese, a professional art foundry in Pietrasanta, in the mountains north of Florence.
Back in Canada, Graham became involved with Gallery Connexion artist-run centre in its early years. She ran a studio in the Fredericton, NB complex of studios and galleries and was President 1991/92.
Graham completed a BA Honours degree in political science, honours topic the developing Status of the Artist legislation (labour law 1992) from the University of New Brunswick. She went on to undertake the MBA in Arts & Media at Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.
She has exhibited at the New Brunswick Museum (solo) and the everGreen Gala 91, World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa (group exhibition of Canadian artists presented to Princess Diana). See "Exhibition History" for complete list of shows.
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton NB, the New Brunswick Art Bank and private collections across Canada and the United States.
Graham:
"I was born in Kingston, Ontario (Canada). Coming from a family of military engineers, I have found that discipline and problem-solving, surprisingly, advantage my creative work process."
About the art
Tony 7, 8x6", oil on board, VignettesGraham's art divides into several main periods that reflect the examination of life she was undertaking at the time.
Exhibitions include, for example, Monolith, Order & Chaos in the Kingdom of Flowers, and The Relationship between the Physical & the Emotional.
Artist's statement:
"My preferred method is to work from life - with the person, object or scene before me - for the immediacy. I like to work fast. If the concentration is strong and sustained, the art work is true.
Whatever subject I am exploring, my goal is to go deep to extract the universal aspect of its nature at that specific time in its existence."
Please see pages PORTFOLIO 1 & PORTFOLIO 2 for recent and early work when the site is built.
PORTFOLIO
