About
I paint abstractly and intuitively from direct observation of both inner and outer landscape.
These paintings explore the interconnection and universality of seen and non-visual experiences,
During these complicated times, I choose to make art that expresses interconnection and wholeness, woven in paint.
My goal is to be present in my life and my paintings.
Awards/Grants/Residencies/Articles
2022 Hundredfold: A Century of Art at Cornell CornellAAP 2022 book
Art Beat reviews 'Art in Response: While We Waited' at the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery by Don Wilkinson https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/entertainment/2022/02/12/covid-pandemic-plays-into-gallery-exhibit-bristol-community-college/6640268001/
2021 Susan Strauss-Western Painting Interview by Alexander Castro http://www.peripheryspace.com/ps-at-pn
2014 "There is Much to Glean from Strauss' Abstracts" New Bedford Standard Times 5/22/14 (review)
2013 Best in Show, Creative Waters Competition, South Coast Artists
2012 Public Arts of RI Grant-Home and Hospice of RI, Providence, RI
Abstraks, June Edition (cover article)
1984 Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant - Drawing
1981 Massachusetts Artist Foundation Semi-finalist - Painting
1977 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY (residency)
1972 Edith Adams and Walter King Stone Memorial Prize, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2024 South Coast Artists Open Studio Tour, Westport, MA
The Art Drive, Westport, MA
SCA Invitational, Bristol Museum, Bristol, MA
Connections VIII Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Blue Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
The Art Drive Westport, MA
Still Standing UMassD Star Store, New Bedford, MA
Members Invitational-South Coast Artists Sprout Gallery, Providence, RI
A Show of Gratitude Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
2022 The Art Drive, Westport, MA
South Coast Open Studio Tour Westport, MA
Connections VI Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
Spring Invitational Exhibit-South Coast Artists Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
While We Waited-Art in Response Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
2021 Small Doses Periphery Space, Providence, RI
Remembering Together - Marking Lives Covid-19 The Broad Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Western Painting Periphery Space, Providence, RI (solo)
Connections V Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2020 60 x 60 Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA
2019 Winter Works Gallery at Four, Tiverton, RI
Connections IV Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Small Works Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
lush. and slow Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI
2018 Members Show New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
From Her Studio Gallery at Four, Tiverton,RI
Connections III Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
The Foundation: 30 Years of Creativity Brickbottom Artist Building, Somerville, MA
5th All Media Juried Exhibition Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, BCC, Fall River,MA
2017 Exalted Reality Gallery 121, Stonington, CT
Small Works Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
Influence DrydenGallery, Providence, RI
The Power of Paper Gallery 4, Tiverton, RI
RESIST Van Vessem Gallery, Tiverton, RI
2016 Public Art at the Tiny Museum The Friend-Smithsonian, Somerville, MA (solo)
Small Works Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
Affordable Art Fair ColoColo Gallery, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY
The Thing of it is Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
Nature Preserved Gallery 4, Tiverton, RI
A Connection-Artists Choosing Artists Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
Susan Strauss and Alison Horvitz - Abstract Paintings Marion Art Center, Marion, MA
Danforth Art Annual Juried Exhibition 2016 Danforth Art, Framingham, MA
2015 Blauww Van Vessem Gallery, Tiverton, RI
2015 Juried Members Show New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford MA
Poetica - Susan Strauss and Nancy Shand Van Vessem Gallery, Tiverton, RI
Cast of Creatives Gallery 4, Tiverton, RI
Opening Show Taste, Jamestown RI
Prince Street Gallery National Juried Show Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Mutable ColoColo Gallery, New Bedford, MA (solo)
Trio Gallery 4, Tiverton, RI
Renewal Cherry & Web Gallery, Fall River, MA
2014 Juried Members Show New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
Small Works Exhibit Gallery 4, Tiverton, RI
2013 2D -3D Susan Strauss and Tiffany Adams A Coastal Living Gallery, Wickford, RI
6@4 Gallery 4, Tiverton, RI
A Sampling of the South Coast Spring Bull Gallery, Newport, RI
2012 Quartet Gallery 4, Tiverton, RI
Susan Strauss Paintings Home and Hospice of RI, Providence, RI (solo)
2011 For the Birds The Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA
2010-12 Newport Annual Newport Museum, Newport,RI
2008-19 South Coast Artists Open Studio Tour Westport, MA
The Art Drive Westport, MA
2008 Then and Now Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
Fire Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2006-19 Annual Show Little Compton Community Center, Little Compton, RI
2004, 06-11 Somerville Open Studios Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
2003 Code Orange Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2002 Jack McLaughlin Memorial Auction Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
1997 Women’s Work Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
1987-2012,19 Brickbottom Open Studios Brickbottom C-129, Somerville, MA
1987 Faculty Exhibit Starr Gallery, Newton, MA
Brickbottom Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
Sculptural Paintings & Ceramics-Susan Strauss and John Wolfram Project Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Group Show The Art Store, Charleston, WV
1985 Boston Arts Festival Competition Esplanade, Boston, MA
1984-86 Vernon Street Open Studios 20 Vernon St, Somerville, MA
1983 Six Spring General Art in General Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Arts on the Town – Susan Strauss Loeb Drama Center and Gallery 57, Cambridge, MA (solo)
Arts on the Town Cambridge Arts Association, Cambridge, MA
Boston Artists Work on Paper Boston University, Boston, MA
Fifteen Somerville Artists Tufts University, Medford, MA
Ancient Shapes and Modern Forms-Susan Strauss and Susan Saltzer-Drucker Gallery Zena, Boston, MA
Art Week Boston Cambridge Street Studios, Cambridge, MA
1981 Veil Paintings Alan Brown Gallery, Hartsdale, NY (solo)
Veiled Paintings Lysistrata Gallery, Madison, WI (solo)
1980 Show Some Emotion Women’s Building, Los Angeles, CA
The Veiled Performance traveling piece, Los Angeles, CA
Four Artists Smedleys’ Gallery, Ithaca, NY
1979 Susan Strauss-Paintings Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
Ancient Shapes University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA (solo)
Painted Constructions - Lenore Hill, Susan Strauss and Debra Weisberg Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA
1978 Birth Stories/Beginnings Smedleys’ Gallery, Ithaca, NY
1977 Painting and Sculpture Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA
1974 A Wall of Work Art Meeting Place, London, England (solo)
1972 Women and the Arts Festival Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Education
2014 University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA - Post Baccalaureate
1986 Day Studio Workshop, San Francisco, CA
1980 Women's Building Summer Art Program, Los Angeles, CA
1972 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - BFA