My paintings are non-referential (they don't refer to anything) and non-representational (they don't represent anything). They resemble landscape, because of their color and horizon-like bands and lines. They often resemble the land I long for in my imagination, my grandfather's Falkoping.
-Sue Carlson, NYC, 2010
Sue Carlson
Sue Carlson was born in Minneapolis, MN in 1956 and currently lives and works in the East Village in New York City. She earned a BA in music history and performance from Case Western Reserve University and an MFA in visual art from CAL-ARTS. Her musical training has deeply influenced her painting practice, as she uses the model of musical language as a way of embracing the poetry of light and space. Sue trained as a painter by assisting in the studios of Elizabeth Murray and Lucio Pozzi in New York City. Her works have been exhibited throughout New York, including Rose Burlingham Fine Art, Gerber-Seid Fine Art, Van Brunt Gallery, Lindsey Brown Gallery, Artist's Space and White Columns. Her work has also been presented in the USA in San Francisco, San Antonio and Baltimore, and in Italy, in Bologna and Sardinia.
In addition to painting, Sue performs and teaches classical piano.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:
1986 studio assistant to Elizabeth Murray, New York, NY
1980-82 MFA, CAL-ARTS (visual art), Valencia, CA, Roy O Disney Scholarship, study with John Baldessari
1981 Empire State Studio Program, New York, NY studio assistant to Lucio Pozzi
1979-80 Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MPLS, MN
1976-77 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1974-78 BA, Case Western Reserve University (music history and performance), Cleveland, OH, thesis, "Creating a new notation for 20th century musical sounds"
CWRU Music Achievement Award, 1978
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2010 "Longing for Falkoping", (solo show), Svenska Kyrkan (The Swedish Church), 5 East 48th St, New York, NY
2009 "Still, Quiet, on the Wall", (solo show), Rose Burlingham Fine Art, New York, NY "Seid Show: Recession Art" Gerber-Seid Fine Arts, New York, NY
"Water Carefully", Galleria Neon, Bologna, Italy
2008 "I'm Asking for the Sky" , Sardegna Arte Fiera, Sardinia, Italy
2007 "Dutch Barn Show", Rose Burlingham Fine Art, New York, NY
2006 "Bailey House Auction", New York, NY and Southampton, NY
2005 ArtMANGO, San Antonio, Texas
2004 " Seid Show", Gerber Seid Fine Arts, New York, NY
" Band of Abstraction", Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY
"The Bill Clinton Show", Locus Media, New York, NY
2003 "Landscape at Wave Hill", Lindsey Brown Gallery, New York, NY
2002 "Sue Carlson, Double Horizon" (solo show), Lindsey Brown Gallery, New York, NY
publication: essay by Joe Fyfe
2001 "Sue Carlson: Fykerud Series" (solo show), NeoImages Gallery, New York, NY
2000 "Substance", NeoImages Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "Sue Carlson: Healing Spaces" , (solo show), Arthur Ashe Institute, Brooklyn, NY
"Size Matters", Gale Gates et al, Mike Weiss, curator, Brooklyn, NY
1997-t.d. Flat File, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1996 "My Friends in My Apartment", Barbara Pollack, curator, New York, NY
1994 Artists Space, New York, NY
1993 "Multi-Media Survey", BAUhouse, Baltimore, MD
1991 "Three Painters", Berland-Hall Gallery, New York, NY
1987 "Sue Carlson" , White Columns, Bill Arning, curator, New York, NY
1984 "Sue Carlson, Stephen Paul Miller", ABC No RIO, New York, NY
"The 222 Painting" (solo show), No Se No Gallery, New York, NY
1982 "New Work", Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
COLLECTIONS:
Sue's work is represented in the following collections:
Archives: Stockholmmuseum, Sweden
Creative Feng Shui Inc.
Neustadt Consulting Group
United States Department of State
private collections
WRITINGS:
"Ice, Paint and Memory; Nordic Landscape Painting 1840-1910",
ArtSEEN Journal #7, Microcosm, Fall 2007
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1985-94 Bank Street College of Education Lab School for Children, NYC, created, designed and implemented a piano
instruction program in the Extended Day Program, taught private piano as well as music classes and chamber ensembles; taught Art classes in the Summer Program. student's ages ranged from 4 through 13.
1985-ongoing piano instruction for beginner and intermediate students, ages 4 through adult, music history, theory and
performance, ear training and dalcroze eurythmics
1998 Marymount Manhattan College, NYC, adult education, "Issues in Contemporary Art",
designed the curriculum, brought in guest speakers
1998 and 2004 Presbytery of New York City, continuing education studio art class, Brooklyn, NY
