Susan Brewer

Biography

Susan Brewer has operated a studio in The Stutz building for over two decades. She is an abstract expressionist artist with a focus on producing large-format canvases and works on paper for residential and commercial spaces. Susan also does commissioned work designed for specific spaces through consultations to create original work for each client. In 2015 she received the Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship Grant from the Indy Arts Council and produced a body of work that culminated in a solo exhibition in 2017 at Gallery 924. Included in this exhibition were paintings, drawings and ceramic sculpture. Susan has several years of experience working as a curator and gallery director. She worked for the Evan Lurie Gallery in the Carmel Arts and Design District for 4 years until it was sold in 2021. She is now working with the Circle Real Estate Company to operate a contemporary fine art gallery.

Statement

My work follows the impulse of the imagination and is inspired by dreams and meditations that relate to an inner dialogue of my personal experience of the world. I work through a process of developing layers of color, texture, and suggested forms to build images through a visual language that I have created to structure my compositions. My work as an artist explores the human condition - one's relationship to the environment, to others, and to oneself. Each composition is relevant to my life at the moment, an energy field of communication that becomes personal to each viewer.