Susan Quaglia Brown
Artist Bio:
I was born in Richmond Indiana, and grew up in the Boston area. As a precocious and inquiring young adult I spent several years traveling in the U.S., Mexico, and the Caribbean, painting, sailing and absorbing other cultures. I earned a BA from Vermont College, with a concentration in painting. Three decades of art, including paintings, works on paper, and public art, reflects my career-long meditation on the reconciliation between heaven and earth. An art dealer, at O.K. Harris Gallery NYC, recently said about my paintings, "singular and fully-accomplished."
I teach and practice Kundalini Yoga, which uses ancient sounds and resonance. I also enjoy making and recording music, cooking, laughing, dream-work, and gardening. These life practices deeply inspire me and are all necessary for my work, and make-up the never-ending process of creating art that resonates with the most sacred aspects of my being.
I believe in reconciling art, environment, meditation, place, and collaboration. I've had the opportunity to create transformational events and installations for peace in NYC, and throughout New England. My work has culminated as private exhibitions of paintings, and as public site-specific spectacle; in museums, galleries, civic, and government spaces - both indoors and out, for ten years (1999-present), and include the following site- specific installations:
Mud Murals- an environmental outdoor mural, made with students and educators, of mud to serve as a spectacle for peace, while nourishing the garden below as it slowly decomposes.
Meditation in the Windows- meditating people, two at a time for 1/2 hour each, in two Main Street storefront windows on 911, from 9AM to 11PM, responding as stillness in a merchandising platform as peace.
Axis Mundi- sitting riverside on Main Street, Wilton NH, in meditation for 40 days, one hour each day at a toxic waste dump. Bringing together artists, educators, and dozens of local students, making sculpture from found trash and discarded metal pipes and rods, some more than 25 feet in length. Culminating in displaying on-sitek sculpture and a video installation during the Wilton Art and film Festival.
The universe is unfolding in its cosmic mystery, passionate, sexy, and awesome, and I believe we are counting on the wordless to comfort and inspire us. My path is as an artist, and I am happiest when I am looking, responding, and making beauty to share with all.