Artist Statement

Suzanne Bartlett, in her Forest Women Series, employees new approaches to her decades long interest in layering images and symbols in a variety of mediums. Best-known for her sculpted Textile paintings in assemblages that provoke engagement with a history of women’s work and lives, she brings to this new printed series; totems and talismans made of vintage dresses, paper castings, lace, antique pattern tissue and found bits. 

Beauty belies the labor buried within it: Bartlett melds traditional crafts forms with photographic and digital tools in her distinctive constructions.

Biography

Suzanne A. Bartlett has “always been an artist” gravitating toward paid work that made use of her design sense. She early developed a talent for learning new skills in vernacular settings, including silk screening, interior design, marketing and newspaper image production. While raising a family, she received a bachelors degree from Lehigh University’s Art and Architecture program, graduating with honors. She has an active studio discipline; Printing, painting, drawing, sculpting, sewing, photographing, baking bread, and teaching others to be makers too.

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