The bright, patterned paintings that Susan Chrysler White creates recall the Op Art movement of the 1960s. Abstract imagery and patterns morph into forms that are "botanical, insect-like or mutations of some hybrid futuristic organism". Susan does not use brushes to make her paintings but instead pours and presses paint onto the canvas and paper. Susan also creates sculpture in this way, using clear acrylic as her surface. She then combines several acrylic pieces together to make dazzling compositions. Susan is a professor emerita of painting and drawing at the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History. She has taught at such institutions as the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, Skidmore College, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy as well as Carnegie Mellon University. She is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptor’s Award as well as a National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship and an AMACUP (Mexican Association for Arts and Popular Culture) Award for Milagro Del Dia Project: Most Creative New Project, Mexico City, Mexico. Susan's work has been featured in numerous one and two-person exhibitions in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia and she has completed three major commissions for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as well as eleven other large scale public commissions throughout Iowa and the U.S. Susan holds an MFA from the University of California-Davis and a BA from the University of California-Berkley. Her work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Citicorp, New York, NY; Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, CA, among many others. To view more of Susan’s work visit her personal website at http://www.susanchryslerwhite.com