SUSAN SHATTER
NEW PAINTINGS

OCTOBER 19 - NOVEMBER 25, 2006

DFN Gallery is proud to inaugurate our new location in Chelsea with “New Paintings” by Susan Shatter.  This exhibition will feature Shatter’s most recent large-scale watercolors depicting the rocky Maine coastline and the vast Southwestern desert. 

In addition to portraying both the beauty and drama of nature, Susan Shatter's paintings accentuate the impact of time and the beautiful scars  left behind by years of continuous contact and conflict.

Of Shatter's painting style, critic David Cohen writes in the catalogue which accompanies this exhibition:

Aesthetic impact and stylistic allegiance alike shoot in mutually exclusive directions: traditionalist and modernist, accessible and complex, calm and subversive, cinematic and painterly. Her sumptuous, large-scale watercolor panoramas instill in the viewer a sense of being there, yet equally these beguiling images impart a chill remoteness - the otherness of art.

Susan Shatter studied at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture before earning a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute and a M.F.A. from Boston University.  She has been awarded fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the Yaddo Corporation and grants from the National Foundation of the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her landscapes can be found in museums and major collections throughout the world including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery.  Ms. Shatter has served on the Board of Governors of the Skowhegan School since 1979, and is currently serving as the 32nd President of The National Academy of Design.

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