Stitching Together
Sculptural art quilt in the collection of the McKissick Museum
Antebellum
Flower Pounding on Vintage Sleeping Gown
Threads, Gathering My Thoughts
Installation at Gallery 80808
My Blue Grass Roots
Art Quilt Lowell 2012
Handed Down, art quilt
Last Words, solo show at the Tapps Art Center
Last Words at Vision Gallery
Chandler, AZ 2011
Solo Show by Susan Lenz
I Do/I Don't Installation 2011
Installation by Susan Lenz
Wasted Words: Global Warnings
at the Textile Museum, 2011
Susan Lenz
Runaway Runway 2011
Recycled Bridal Party Fashions
by Susan Lenz
Handed Down
Best of Show in Palmetto Hands 2012
Susan Lenz
Stained Glass XXVII
Series available at
The Grovewood Gallery
Public art quilt project
"Looking For a Mate"
Sock art quilt, 2011
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General Artist Statement
Generally using needle and thread for self-expression, I work to articulate the accumulated memory inherent in discarded things. I seek a partnership
with my materials, their purposes, values, and familiar associations. Memory, universal mortality, and personal legacy are central themes.
Vintage and recycled materials are combined with meticulous handwork and self-guided, free-motion machine embroidery.
I am drawn to textiles for their tactile qualities and often make work that is meant to touch and be touched.
I Am Not Invisible Statement
These truths are always with me: I am a female lacking an academic arts education in a male dominated world bent on high-brow approaches to art-making underscored with critical words written by trained professionals. I am a post-menopausal woman with years of experience and mountains of visual expressions waiting to take form. I work and will continue to work because I have something to say in spite of the many obstacles. I work with the faint hope that "something", perhaps just one little work of art, might be kept through coming generations, cherished ... admired ... remembered ... regarded for its quality ... something to mark my existence on this planet. I work because ...
I AM NOT INVISIBLE.
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Gallery Representation
Grovewood Gallery
Mouse House, Inc.