Description
This catalog was printed in conjunction with the exhibition Dry Stone No Sound of Water, on display in the Main Gallery from June 13 – September 1, 2024 featuring the work of Suzanne Theodora White.
2023 Members Juried Exhibition Director’s Prize Winner Suzanne Theodora White’s series Dry Stone No Sound of Water is a deeply layered, textured look at how we see the landscape. Her constructions beg us to look deeper, to explore the frame, finding something familiar, yet seeing the world differently. Her still life images combine painting and photography along with the natural elements to create other-worldly dreamscapes.
Artist Statement
“Can art carry the burden of remembering what used to be while confronting what the future may hold? My profound connection to nature and our impact on the environment has been an overriding theme in my work throughout my years as an artist. For my series, Dry Stone No Sound of Water, I use my farm and the land it encapsulates as a muse along with inspiration from T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land. From a fixed point on a map, I am a traveler through the Anthropocene.”
About Suzanne Theodora White
Trained as a painter, Suzanne studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, and has an MFA from Maine Media College. She was a two-time winner of fellowships awarded by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. After receiving the first of these awards, she spent over a year on the road traveling alone, overland, through Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Far East. In the 1980’s and 90’s she made extended trips to South America to study birds in the Amazon basin and Central America.
Suzanne has had many solo exhibitions and has been included in group shows over her long career including Yale University, New Haven, CT; Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI; Art Institute of Boston; Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA; and Colby College, Waterville, ME.
Suzanne lives in Maine with her two dogs and a large flock of chickens.
