Susan Grissom is an award winning painter, printmaker,photographer independent curator and gallery director born in Tennessee. Working in mixed media, she incorporates age, texture, primitive symbolism and a strong sense of color in a modern way. One of her images has recently been used in a medical journal and for an ad campaign through an advertising agency in Sweden. Current projects are works that are inspired by Industrial and Environmental subjects and Disasters.

Susan began with a strong interest in Architectural Preservation and worked in Siena Italy on the Spannochia Estate through the Etruscan Foundation in early 1980’s. After Italy she worked as a decorative painter in the early 1980’s until 2007, working both nationally and internationally in private homes. A great desire to paint and a period of experimentation has turned into the abstract style and modern approach to the primitive that seemed to come so naturally, which led to collage works, printmaking and the subjects she captures in her photography.

My photography at the Affordable Art Fair September 21-25th,2011

Louisiana Stories
Art and Decoration Blog
Video of McNeal House A Tennessee Antebellum

Recent exhibitions include

Co-Curator of Artshow Bedford 2012

Best Painting Award - Bedford Artshow 2012

Westchester Designer Showhouse -Curated Works on Paper Show -Upstairs hall

Curator of Maritime Garage Gallery In Norwalk, Organic, Transcendence,Alchemy

Ferguson Art Gallery- Ferguson Library- Stamford CT

Maritime Garage Gallery in Norwalk CT, as Curator of The Artists of Firing Circuits Sept. 2010 thru January 2011 .

Echo- Repetive Marks and Images - January 28 - March 6, 2010 Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT

Solo Exhibition in Artworks Gallery at Chitten-Howell House at St. Paul's on the Green Norwalk, CT January 19 thru March 2, 2010

Bedford ArtShow 2010 ( Honorable Mention)

Gallery 631, NY, NY

Rowayton Art Center in Rowayton CT, won Best in Show for black and white photography and first in show for Printmaking

The Canvas Project in the Hartsfield – Jackson International Airport in Atlanta,

Linocut edition at the Art House Gallery Atlanta GA,

Traveling Sketchbook Project, traveling venue to Chicago, Atlanta, DC, Boston and Brooklyn’s Dumbo.

Published works are in Art House Encyclopedia, and a Swedish Medical Journal

Susan is represented by the Lionheart Gallery in Pound Ridge, NY and has an art studio at Firing Circuits in an Industrial area of Norwalk, CT
Firing Circuits

My Blog

Associations
Professional Women Photographers
Center for Contemporary Printmaking
Robert Blackburn Center,
Pen and Brush
International Collage Society
Exhibiting Member of Rowayton Art Center
Worldwide Women Artists
Katonah Museum Artist Association
Painters in Modern Times UK

Upcoming
Maritime Center Garage Gallery September 2010- January 2011

Recent
Bedford Art Show January 2010
Rowayton Art Center Juried Abstract Show- August 2009

Best in Show for Abstract Nature Photography
First Place for Print Category for Echo 8

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport Atrium Gallery - Canvas Project Atlanta , GA Aug- Sept 2009
Art House Gallery Sept thru Oct. 2009

*Linocut Edition of 22 entilted Secret Language, commissioned for Art House Gallery- Atlanta GA Sept 2009

Traveling Sketchbook - Art House Gallery 2009
Six city tour to the following exhibitions:
Museum of Contemporary Art DC
Chris Jazz Cafe- Philadelphia , PA
Third Ward - Brooklyn, NY
Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
Antena Gallery Chicago, Ill.
Soulard Art Market - St Louis. MO
Chicago Art Source -Chicago Ill
Museum of Design Atlanta

Postcards from Within - Katonah Museum of Art January 2009

"Postcards from the Edge", A Benefit for Visual Aids - Metro Pictures Jan 9th thru11th 2009 519 W. 24th Street NY,NY Feb. 2009

DeCordova Gallery Group Show from Dan Welden Printmakers Workshop Oct 19th - Nov 4th 2008

Katonah Museum Artist Association Artists at Northern Westchester Hospital Show from September 2008- March 2009

Past Exhibition
Juried Show - Febuary 2008 - Rowayton Arts Center
Honorable Mention

Juried Show - Nov. 2007 - Rowayton Art Center

Juried Show - August 2007 Silvermine Art Center

One Woman Show - May 2006 - Mixed Media Works On Paper
Lionheart Gallery Pound Ridge, NY 2006

Caboose Gallery of Kent - New York - Paris Kent, CT 1992
Group show benefiting Habitat for Humanity