Suzanne A. Bartlett. Persephone 36" x 24",  layered photos on paper with stamp printed circles, flourishes and paint lines - mounted on wood panel

Forest Women

January 2 - 26, 2025
opening reception: Saturday, January 4, 2:30-4:30 pm
artist talk: January 4, 3:00 pm
artist talk: January 25, 3:00 pm

Suzanne Bartlett, in her Forest Women series, employs new approaches to her decades-long interest in layering images and symbols in a variety of mediums. Best-known for her sculpted textile paintings and 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 craft forms with photographic and digital tools in her distinctive constructions.

Suzanne Bartlett

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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