Susan Pasquarelli

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Born and raised in Southern California, Susan Pasquarelli received her BA in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley.  In the 1970’s she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  She attended graduate school at Brooklyn College in New York where she studied drawing and painting with Lee Bontecou, Phillip Pearlstein, Lois Dodd, and Alan D’Arcangelo among others.  After receiving her MFA in 1982, Pasquarelli began showing her work regularly as well as teaching drawing and painting for twenty years as an adjunct professor at various colleges in the Philadelphia region, including fourteen years at Philadelphia University.  She currently resides in Taos, New Mexico.

Susan’s creative drive:

“I believe that making art can be a way to manifest aspects of nature that are not often beyond merely perceptual or decorative.”

Thoughts on process:

“With each medium, I select a process involving gradual change.  This allows for changes to be fundamental to the finished visual image, such as the graduations of light and color interacting with the surface of the paper.”

Personal relationship to her work:

“I think of myself as a working artist and integrate my daily life with the discipline of painting and drawing.”

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