Susan MacQueen
Susan MacQueen’s childhood was a blend of both suburban and rural. Weekends were spent on her Dad’s farm in Northeast Ohio, riding their ex-racehorse Dusty and working in the barn. This love of horses would later display itself in her current series, Equine Encounters.
At Windham College in Putney, Vermont, she found a home in the arts, particularly painting. She earned her BFA there with a minor in early childhood education. The combined activity of art and teaching has been a source of satisfaction for her throughout her life.
Susan has had studios in Charleston, South Carolina, Soho in New York City, Cold Spring ,New York and most recently in Hopewell, New Jersey at Highland Design Farm where she maintains an active studio practice.
She has shown her work extensively both in the South and regionally. Her work is included in the State Collection of South Carolina as well as the New Jersey State Museum. AT&T, the headquarters of NRG, Jacob’s Pillow, and the Tenacre Foundation.
Susan is a mixed media, multidisciplinary artist whose preference is to move freely from one medium and subject to another as need/interest dictates. There are of course pivot points, often deeply personal, propelling these shifts. Within the body of her work is a diverse range of images all pointing to an artist with a restless and inquiring nature seeking to understand.
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Education Windham College, Putney, Vermont. 1966-1970 , BFA
One Woman Exhibitions
“Flock Descending”, an installation at Arts Council of Princeton 2007
College Club, Princeton, New Jersey 1989
AT&T Corporate Center, Hopewell, NJ. 1988
Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston SC. 1981
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 1978
Selected Group Exhibitions
Show & Artist talk NRG Headquarters, Princeton NJ 2018,2020
Show & Artist talk, Princeton Public Library 2015
Hopewell Tour Des Arts, Hopewell, NJ 2015-2019
“Drawn Through Nature” Veridian Gallery Pennington NJ 2010
Anne Reid Gallery, Princeton, NJ 2002
“Fragile Dependencies” Gallery at Bristol Meyers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ 2000
“Air Borne/Earth Borne”, a two person show at Arts Council of Princeton 1998
“ Different Strokes”, Gallery at Scanticon, Princeton NJ 1995
“Fiber, Metal, and Wood”, Noyes Museum,Smithville, NJ 1988
Prallsville Mill Juried Exhibit, Stockton, NJ 1988
“Put Together”, 22 Wooster Street Gallery, NYC 1982
Exhibition of SC State Art Collection, Columbia, SC 1980
“Carolinians in NY”, Columbia Museum of Art,Columbia, SC 1981
“Women Artists of SC”, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC 1975
South Carolina Arts Commission Exhibition, Gibbes Art Gallery,
Charleston, SC 1976 - 1978
South Carolina State Collection Exhibition, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC 1971
Public Collections
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Center
Tenacre Foundation
AT&T Corporate Center
New Jersey State Museum
South Carolina State Collection
Awards
Delaware- Raritan Greenway Exhibition Award
South Carolina State Collection Purchase Prize ,1978, 1981