Biography

Susan Stover is an artist who creates works that explore personal and collective memory, and symbolic meanings tied to patterns, objects and places. Having studied many aesthetic traditions from around the world, she embraces ritual, tradition, and meditation inherent in repetitive processes.

Susan received a MFA from California College of Art in Oakland, California and a BFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her works are in many private and corporate collections. She is represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY and Colibri Gallery in Morgan Hill, CA. Susan teaches workshops online, in person at other locations in the U.S., and internationally.

Statement

My work is about investigating the significance of patterns in art and communities. I’m interested in how shapes, colors, and symbols can convey meaning. They are coded languages that communicate, status, belonging, beliefs, or cosmologies. My work, often resembling quilts, maps, or walls, demonstrates my interest in structures, starting with the grid. Underlying structures are the connection between pattern, textiles, and language. Moving between painting and object-making, I use a variety of materials to build surfaces and objects while thinking about the object’s relationship to space.