Susan
Abbott is a painter born in Takoma Park, Maryland. She grew up in an art
environment, seeing the art scene in Washington DC and with her father being a
graphic designer. Abbott would spend her free time as a child drawing,
painting, and reading art books. She attended the Maryland Institute’s College
of Art to study painting. Afterwards, she studied printmaking in Iowa. Since
then, she has been a full time artist. Her work has been exhibited all over the
country. She has even been commissioned by Oprah Winfrey. Currently, she lives in
Vermont.
Many of her
drawings consist of landscapes from places that she has visited all around the
world. They are mainly just studies of light and how color interacts with the
environment. Abbott’s work can be seen as somewhat more abstract that
observational since some of the lines can be ambiguous. Her work has been
described as Modernism. Abbott’s most recent work consists of landscapes around
her home in Vermont.
Her work
somewhat reminds me of Thiebaud’s landscape paintings in that they use
saturated colors and the way she uses smooth brushstrokes. They also capture certain
nostalgia for American Life that Thiebaud is always able to capture so well.
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