Meet The Artist:
About Sue Klau
Born in Chicago, I had the advantage of having the Art Institute of Chicago as one of my early playgrounds. I attended classes there from ages 8-18, then headed to Smith College where I majored in Art. Next, I earned my Masters in Art Education at Lehman College of CUNY.
My Art
While I have enjoyed working in the company of like-minded artists, either in local studios or at Art New England Summer Workshops, since Covid, I have discovered a new rhythm of creating art alone in my home studio. This has given me opportunities to spread out and compare my pieces, which in turn inspires new ideas.
Currently, my work is about more than making art: it is about making meaning in my life, finding space and peace. This is occupational therapy at the highest, most joyful level.
Artist Statement
My phone camera is my new sketchbook, capturing natural and structural forms; mundane images lure me.
Sewer covers, construction pipes, fire hydrants, and plant forms of all kinds become abstract works in my mixed media pieces. I use these photographs, cut up or copied onto tissue paper, to collage into my work or to make a silk screen. Technology is informing and assisting my work now.
My paintings morph from the first shape on the paper to what finally feels complete. The power and delight are in moving the materials, exploding the image, and creating new shapes and forms. Experimentation with materials, media, scale and space, structure and texture, whether in color or monotone, dictate the direction of my intuitive work.
- Sue Klau
Artist
Palimpsest and Pentimento: Painting from Nature in the Studio
Palimpsest: a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
Pentimento: a visible trace of earlier painting beneath a layer or layers of paint on a canvas.
