Folk Artist Susan Powers
28 01 09 - 12:59
Susan Powers is a self-taught artist who began painting in 1979, encouraged by a friend and fellow painter who had seen her expressive pencil drawings. Only a year later, her work had been accepted for display by the prestigious Jay Johnson Folk Heritage Gallery in New York City. In 1980, Powers spent a year in England and France developing her craft, before returning to the U.S.
Her paintings are in many permanent collections, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and the American Museum in Bath, England. Her works have been exhibited in numerous museums, including the Bede Gallery, Jarrow England, the Woodspring Museum, Weston-Super-Mare, England, the Camden Arts Center, London, the Haworth Art Gallery, London, and at the White House in Washington, D.C. Ms. Powers paintings of cats are the subject of an annual calendar published by Landmark Calendars of California, and her work is also featured as fine art posters and publications by Poster Originals, Inc., Workman Publishing, Inc., and Art Resources International, Ltd.
Born in Glen Cove, New York in 1954, Ms. Powers attended the University of Vermont, where she studied classical languages and medieval history, graduating in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in European Studies. She lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband and daughter and their too many cats (and now dogs as well). She is currently represented by the Frank Miele Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City and by Gallerie Je Reviens in Westport, Connecticut.
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