Statement
I am a process-driven interdisciplinary artist using printmaking, sculpture, and animation. My sculptures resemble abstracted human figures, organic forms, and imaginary archeological artifacts. Each piece projects a unique gesture, allowing viewers to interpret their meaning for themselves. Through animation, their personality unfolds. They are small to life-size, created with prints on paper with pigments, sand, and clay. My inspiration comes from the clamor of crowds of people in the city and the solitude and beauty of nature. As the viewer becomes engaged with the work, they experience a sense of visiting a strange but familiar place.
Biography
Susan Rostow (b. 1953, Brooklyn, NY) splits her time between New York City and rural upstate New York. Inspired by both city and country, she creates prints, sculptures, and animations that combine elements of abstracted figures, architecture, and the countryside’s natural beauty.
She is a recipient of several awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Printmaking / Book Arts, and research residencies at the New York Academy of Medicine rare books library, and the New York Historical Society, collaborative projects with Central Booking, NY.
Since 2022, she has had two solo exhibitions at Atlantic Gallery, NYC, NY. Rostow has also participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, Peru, Korea, and Japan.
Her prints and sculptural books are in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress National Print Archives, Washington DC, the Allan Chasanoff Bookwork Collection at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, and the Washington State Art Collection, Olympia, WA.
