Susan Brenner : Painting

Susan Brenner is a painter, who has long used photography as part of her artistic process. A few years ago, fueled by a desire to merge the languages of the two media, she began to make digitally created art works. She now works in all three media, painting, photography and digital imaging. Her current work is inspired by the idea of migration in a broadly defined sense. What interests her is the idea of dispersion, the mixing and mingling of substances as they travel from one area to another, taking up space in territories already inhabited by other substances. This kind of movement and its result seem to be aptly metaphorical for much that is happening in our world on both the macro and micro levels.

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Susan Brenner is an Associate Professor who has been teaching in the department since 1991. She has an M.F.A. in Art from the University of Southern California and a B.F.A. in Art from the San Francisco Art Institute. Professor Brenner has been a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Southern Arts Federation/NEA Regional Fellowship Award in Painting and Works on Paper, two North Carolina Artist's Fellowships, and a Regional Artist Project Grant. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at venues such as the Asheville Museum of Art, the Mint Museum of Art, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Columbia Museum of Art, S.E.C.C.A., the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.