I am producing the communications strategy and copywriting for my friend and artist, Suzy Q.
She is a very talented multi-media painter. I find true inspiration from her.
This is the biography I created for website.
The radiance and energy shine in Suzy Q’s career as an emerging artist and visual art educator. She holds a double Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and a Bachelor of Education from University of British Columbia. After graduation she spent several rewarding years teaching art to children while perfecting her unique painting technique. In 2004 she became the Visual Artist and Creative Director where she created custom paintings for an interior design agency and directed the art production.
Her commitment to mentoring aspiring artist only became stronger when she enrolled in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. After graduating with honors in Master of Arts in Art Education in 2006, she became the Production Leader for Kaikai Kiki New York, LLC and worked under the direction of Takashi Murakami, a prolific contemporary Japanese artist in fine arts and digital and commercial media. Proving to be a great leader in Murakami’s studio, she successfully managed the delicate balance of color and a refined painting application, known as Superflat, to all forms of media. She exhibited a meticulous eye for the highest quality in the artwork and project management.
Currently residing in New York, Suzy continues to paint at her studio. In her earliest series, she draws upon the experience of transforming the banal and attempts to find beauty in the everyday experience, from a simple spring blossom to a weeping willow and its architectural structures. More recently her panels are rich with gestures subtly display representative yet abstract images like suggestion of youth and play transfigured by lavish markings and innate gestures. She expanded her skill set to embrace lush, fluorescent colors, multiple glazes, metal use and needle strokes to create the texture of playfulness and whimsy. Her paintings are often described powerful and luminous. They allow the viewer a glimpse of an imaginative aesthetic and a heightened sense of depth and insight into the artist’s personal vision of the world around her. The series Tokki Jjang (Super Rabbit) and Serious Boys and Girls have aptly captured this playful energy and explores the nuances of light and darkness in a surreal quality.
A series of paintings have been featured in the Nature Conservancy’s benefit Auction for three consecutive years. Suzy is the recipient of several national and international awards including the Scholarship for North American Scholars from New York University. Her work can be found in a selected number of private and corporate collections in Canada, Great Britain, South Korea and the United States. Currently, Suzy is preparing upcoming shows in New York City and Vancouver.
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