Susan Rankaitis
American painter
Susan Rankaitis
Born 1949 Education BFA, Painting and Photography, University of Southern California, School of Fine Arts (1971), MFA Painting, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, School of Art and Design (1977) Known for Painting, Photography, Drawing Movement Abstract Photography, Conceptual Photography Website http://www.susanrankaitis.com/
Susan Rankaitis (born 1949) is an American multimedia artist working primarily in painting, photography and drawing. Rankaitis began her career in the 1970s as an abstract painter.[ 1] [ 2] Visiting the Art Institute of Chicago while in graduate school, she had a transformative encounter with the photograms of the artist László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), whose abstract works of the 1920s and 1940s she saw as "both painting and photography."[ 3] [ 4] Rankaitis began to develop her own experimental methods for producing abstract and conceptual artworks related both to painting and photography.[ 1] [ 5]
Rankaitis draws on science in her work—particularly ideas generated through research in the fields of biology and neuroscience and she collaborates regularly with scientists on interdisciplinary projects.[ 6]
Education
Solo exhibitions
2017: Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present , Los Angeles County Museum of Art [ 8]
2017: Grey Matters , Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY[ 9]
2007: Limbicwork , Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY[ 10]
2005: Limbicwork: Pertaining to the Nature of Borders , Europos Parkas , Vilnius, Lithuania (outdoor)[ 10]
2000: Susan Rankaitis: Drawn from Science, Museum of Photographic Arts , San Diego, CA[ 11]
1998: Science as Art: Susan Rankaitis , Indiana University/Purdue University Cultural Arts Gallery, Indianapolis, IN[ 10]
1997: Gold Science Ghost Drawings , Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY[ 10]
1994: Susan Rankaitis: Abstracting Science, Nature and Technology , Museum of Contemporary Photography , Chicago, IL[ 10]
1992: DNA Series: Susan Rankaitis , Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA[ 10]
1991: Susan Rankaitis: Encounters , Center for Creative Photography , Tucson, AZ[ 10]
1983: Susan Rankaitis: Inherent in Flight , Los Angeles County Museum of Art [ 12]
1983: Susan Rankaitis: L'Avion, L'Avion , International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House , Rochester, NY[ 13]
Academic career
Rankaitis has served since 1990 as Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art at Scripps College in Claremont, California.[ 14]
Public collections
References
^ a b "Museum of Contemporary Photography" . www.mocp.org . Retrieved 2017-03-28 .
^ Young, Cynthia (July–August 1998). "Rochester's women and photography conference". Afterimage . 26 (1): 2 – via Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson).
^ Scripps College (2016-03-09), Spotlight on Faculty: Susan Rankaitis , retrieved 2017-03-28
^ "Search Collection Results | The Art Institute of Chicago" . www.artic.edu . Retrieved 2017-03-29 .
^ "SUSAN RANKAITIS" . Design X Demo . Retrieved 2017-03-28 .
^ UCLA (2009-09-16), Aperture Panel: Abstraction in Photography, Hammer Museum (52:18-54:00) , retrieved 2017-03-28
^ a b c "Susan Rankaitis entry, Smithsonian American Art Museum" .
^ "Farrah Karapetian | Current & Upcoming Activity" .
^ "Susan Rankaitis: Grey Matters | Artsy" .
^ a b c d e f g "Susan Rankaitis bio, Robert Mann Gallery" .
^ KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER (2000-06-14). "Poetic Lyricism, Poise in the Art of 'Science' " . Los Angeles Times . ISSN 0458-3035 . Retrieved 2017-03-28 .
^ "Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition records, 1973-2003 EXH.001.001" . www.oac.cdlib.org . Retrieved 2017-03-28 .
^ "Design X Demo | Selected-Solo-Exhibitions | 1" . Design X Demo . Retrieved 2017-03-29 .
^ "Academics | Faculty Profile" . www.scrippscollege.edu . Retrieved 2017-03-28 .
^ "Rankaitis, Susan | The Art Institute of Chicago" . www.artic.edu . Retrieved 2017-03-29 .
^ "Museum of Contemporary Photography" . www.mocp.org . Retrieved 2017-03-29 .
^ "Susan Rankaitis | LACMA Collections" . collections.lacma.org . Retrieved 2017-03-29 .
^ "Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University" . cantorcollections.stanford.edu . Retrieved 2017-03-29 .
^ "Susan Rankaitis | Princeton University Art Museum" . artmuseum.princeton.edu . Retrieved 2017-03-29 .
^ "Susan Rankaitis" . SFMOMA . Retrieved 2017-03-29 .
^ "Student Affairs Giving - Contemporary Art Purchasing Program" . www.sagiving.umd.edu . Retrieved 2017-03-29 .
^ "Chin/The Arousing (Shock Thunder), Susan Anne Rankaitis ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art" . collections.artsmia.org . Retrieved 2017-03-29 .
External links
International National Artists