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Photo credit: Liesl Clark

Photo Credit: Liesl Clark Photography

Painting begins when inspiration grips me, kick-starting the process - seducing me with gifts and surprises. Helplessly in love with the muse’s vision, is the first step, and then ideas are born in response to the union. Ideas assert themselves with ferocity and sometimes it can feel like I’m running to catch up with them. It’s my job to give the fertile ideas wings and not lose my head during this remarkable love affair that gives birth to a painting.

Biography

Susan Q Brown is an American contemporary artist known for her inspired abstract or figurative work that evokes the natural landscape and human forms. While Susan works from her impressions of the natural world, she also draws upon pillars of art history, such as ancient works by Buddhist and Indian artists in the East, and from Western contemporary masters like Agnes Martin and Hilma af Klint.

Susan uses richly layered colors, creating dimensional luminosity or flat opaqueness, often with both expressions used in the same work.
An alumnus of Vermont College with a concentration in painting and writing, Susan spent her early years traveling in the United States of America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Europe, absorbing their cultures, painting and sailing. Since 1990 her artistic work has culminated in exhibitions in museums and galleries both indoors and out.

Susan lives and works in New Hampshire, with her husband, artist Aaron Brown.

Praise

“Singular and fully-accomplished.”

Ivan C. Karp, OK Harris Gallery, NYC

“As viewers we are invited to enter into a dynamic conversation about the natural world,

philosophy, history, art, technology . . . in short, the universe and humanity's place in it.”
Mara Williams Curator, Brattleboro Museum

“The imagery of the paintings alone are full of wonder.”
Brainard Carey Artist, Whitney Biennial 2002 & 2004, Author

“Innovative and engaging ... distinctive and memorable.”
Annaliese Bischoff Curator, University Gallery, UMASS Amherst, and Author

“Susan Brown's work is the purest poetry and an exploration with paint

of the universal issues that touch the soul. Fantastic work.”
Charles Bane Jr Globally Published Poet

Susan Quaglia Brown

susanqbrown.com

Education

BA, Vermont College, Montpelier VT, concentration in painting and writing
Manchester Institute of Arts & Sciences, Manchester, NH, studied classical sculpture with

Christopher Gowell
International Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training, Milllis MA

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Paradise City Art Fair, Marlboro MA

2015 “Light” Walpole Inn, Walpole NH
2013 “Sound & Intention” Inman Square Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2011 “Wherever You Are is the Center of the World” two person major exhibition with Hari

Kirin. Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro VT, Curator, Mara Williams 2007 “Flying Dakinis” Kundalini Art Gallery, Wilton NH
2006 “Inspiration” Kundalini Art Gallery, Wilton NH
2003 “Taos Clouds” High Mowing School, Wilton NH
2001 “Paintings & Prints” Gallery Alexi, Chelsea NYC
1999 “Self-portrait With Tarot” Papp Gallery, SOHO NYC
1997 “Hawaii Petroglyphs” Kavehaz, SOHO NYC,
1990 “Faces” The Field Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
1989 “Birth Art” Midwives Alliance National Conference, Brookline MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Live virtual group show. Michael David, curator, NYC
2012 “Art Takes Times Square,” Broadway Plaza between 42nd and 44th Streets. Presented by

Chashama, June 18. My painting was selected for digital display between 7:15 and 7:45 PM

in Times Square for this international phenomenon.

2010 “NH Printmakers” Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough NH
2009 “Summer Exhibition” Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill ME
2008 “Art In The Public Sphere” University Gallery, U Mass Amherst,

Jurors: Vito Acconci, Annie Pasternak
2008 “NH Printmakers” Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH

2008 “Regional Exhibition” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

2007 “Regional Exhibition” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA

2005 “Color” Millbrook Gallery, Concord NH
2004 “Glass Exhibition” Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH
2002 “Flag Project” Attleboro Museum, Attleboro MA,
2001 “Song of Songs” Papp Gallery, SOHO NYC
1998 “Reflections” Agora Gallery, SOHO NYC
1997 “Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibition” Harbor Art Gallery, UMASS, Boston MA

1997 “Voices” Shukantala Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1997 “The Escutcheon of Opus 71” Opus 71, Hollis NH
1996 “Tension, Ideal and Expectation – The 50’s”. Opus 71, Hollis NH
1996 “Summer Exhibition” Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA
1996 “Conjunctio” Freight Room Gallery, Hancock NH
1992 “Birth Art- Miracle and Mystery” Commissioned by Midwives Alliance of North America, traveled

to: World Trade Center NYC; Gallery 53, Meriden CT; Erector Square Gallery, New Haven CT;

The Danforth Gallery, Portland ME; Nashua Center for the Arts. Artist and curator.

Public Art & Installations

2010 WaterFlows, Percent For Art Project, Eastern Maine Community College, Bangor ME, Corten

Steel and Resin Sculpture, 10 x 22 X 4 ft. Budget $55,00
2010 Four Seasons, Five Towns, Percent For Art Project, Ashland K-12, Ashland ME,

Steel, Acrylic, Mixed-media Sculpture, 40 x 10 X 4 ft. Budget $44,000
2010 Brewer Elementary School, Percent For Art Project, Brewer ME, Budget $20,000 2010 Percent

for Art Finalist, University Commons, UMaine Portland ME
2009 Percent for Art Finalist, Geiger Elementary, Lewiston, ME
2007 Meditation In The Windows 9/11/07, Kundalini Gallery, Wilton NH
2007 Mud Murals: Public Art Collaborative: High Mowing Cabin For Peace, Wilton NH 2002 Puzzle

Project, Center for Peace and Social Justice, Rivier College, NH
2002 Axis Mundi, Wilton NH, site specific installation and performances
2001-02 Flag Project: 500 handmade flags, exhibited at: State Legislature, Concord

NH; Town Hall and Police Station, Wilton NH; Town Green, Milford NH; Concord Public Library

Gallery, Concord, MA; Vermont College, Montpelier, VT; Rivier College, Nashua NH; Lesley

College, Cambridge, MA

Teaching

2006-present Owner, Nectar Farm, Lyndeborough NH. Individual and group art and yoga instruction

2003-present Certified Yoga Teacher informed by many traditions
1999-2009 High Mowing School, Wilton, NH, Grades 9-12 Studio Arts Instructor
2002 NH State Council on the Arts; Arts in Education Roster, juried member 1996 Merriam Hill

Education Center, Greenfield NH, The Awakening of a Sense of Place. Presenter and panel

member
1993 Women’s Caucus for Art, N.E. Regional Conference, Yale University, Workshop Instructor,

Curating Exhibits
1984-85 Nashua Center for the Arts. Instructor, stained glass

Special Projects

2005- 2008 Co-founder of the Kundalini Yoga Studio & Art Gallery, Wilton NH, with Hari Kirin.

2010 Author of “One Heart, Four Seasons: Kundalini Yoga”

Selected Notices, Reviews and Publications

2014 Nashua Telegraph, “Art in the Family, Feb 13, Cover Arts & Entertainment

2013 Artspeak, Intention and Sound, January 2013, online edition
2010 One Heart, Four Seasons: Kundalini Yoga, Experience Present Moment

Awareness.” Author Susan Q. Brown
2008 Amherst Bulletin, Amherst MA. Kathleen Mellen. May 23. Cover: Arts and Leisure.

2006 Milford Cabinet, Milford NH. Dec 7. Cover: Stepping Out.
2001 Gallery Bill, NYC. Roxanne Collins. May edition. Pg. 11
1998 NY Arts Magazine, SoHo TriBeCa NYC. Feb-March. Agora Gallery: Pg. 18.
1996 Convergence Magazine, NH. Spring Edition. Cover.
1993 York County Coast Star, ME. May 19. Stuart Nudelman. Critic’s Choice Awards.

1993 Premier Magazine, NH. January. Susan M. Martel. Pgs. 58-59.
1993 Maine Things Considered, National Public Radio. May. Ed Morin.
1993 Record Journal, Meriden CT. August 8. Orla Swift. Pgs. F1 & F8

1992 The Telegraph, Nashua NH. Dec 6. Dorothea Tsipopoulos. Front Cover

1991 Open Season, Nancy Wainer Cohen. Bergin and Garvey, NY. Pg. 265.

1987 Art New England, April. Deborah Partington.

Collections

Paintings are held in private collections throughout the USA and abroad.

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