Suzan Shutan
Primary Medium: Installation
Other media: Sculpture, Thread, Wall drawing, Film / Video
CT Studio
Neighborhood : Hamden
Email: sshutan (at) sbcglobal (dot) net
Website: http://suzanshutan.com
Artist Statement
My work concentrates on the tactile quality of line as a departure into space. Using unconventional materials to help characterize ideas that examine how image and meaning fuse, my installations ephemera is integrated through its habitation of two and three dimensions.
Other media: Sculpture, Thread, Wall drawing, Film / Video
CT Studio
Neighborhood : Hamden
Email: sshutan (at) sbcglobal (dot) net
Website: http://suzanshutan.com
Artist Statement
My work concentrates on the tactile quality of line as a departure into space. Using unconventional materials to help characterize ideas that examine how image and meaning fuse, my installations ephemera is integrated through its habitation of two and three dimensions.
Selected Works
|  Tar cluster - 2011 - tar paper - 20' x 20' Made of hundreds of pieces of re-purposed material, tar paper is none the less made in part from asphalt which comes from the distillation process of selected crude oils. This series bring attention to sustainability issues such as our need for and dependence upon oil. Tar cluster represents a map of sorts based upon statistical research of oil spills in glacial areas such as Alaska.  Cluster-1 - 2011 - paper - variable  Flock series- Starling Fable 2 - 2010 - pom poms ^ wire - variable  sideview Flock - 2010 - wire and pom poms - variable read next image  Flock series- Starling Fable - 2010 - pom poms ^ wire - variable  In & Off the Grid - 2010 - flagging tape - variable  Pinocchios Lies 1 - 2010 - Installation (paper,foam) - 4' x 4" x4" per piece x 62 pieces  Pinocchios Lies 2 - 2010 - Installation (paper, foam, fishline) - 18'h x 32'w x 42'd  SKINNY LEG - 2009 - FOAM, PAPER - 3'X3.5'X9"  Blown: Pheromone Series - 2009 - reflective paper & steel pins - variable |
Artist Bio
Suzan Shutan received her BFA from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California and her MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
A recipient of various awards and grants including an Artist Resource Trust grant from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation in Great Barrington, MA, an international CEC Artslink grant, NY, an artist fellowship from Art Matters, NY two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, she has also been awarded Artist Residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY and The Bemis Foundation, Omaha, NE.
Internationally she has exhibited at Proyecto Ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2008), The Palace Ujazdowski Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw, Poland , Rogue Art Gallery, Victoria, Canada, Berlin Kunstferin and University of Freiburg, Germany, Centro Colombo Americano Gallery in Bogota and Medellin, Columbia, The Swedish Archives in Bjaared, Sweden, ArtPolitika in Russia and Culture Inside, Luxembourg and her national exhibits include The Islip Art Museum, NY, Alternative Museum, NY, Abrons Art Center-Henry Street Settlement,NY. Souyun Yi Gallery, NY. Her work is in collections such as the Villa Taverna Foundation in NYC, Sacred Heart University, CT and Rhode Island College, Providence, RI.