Artist's Statement, Drawing
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The second law of thermodynamics states that everything moves from order to chaos. I do not remember order. Drawing is an opportunity to face the hysteria surrounding the chaos with both feet firmly planted on the ground. I draw every day. A day without drawing is meaningless. It is a conscious habit and meant to calm the stress of contemporary life. What drives the drawing is my ability to plug into creative awareness and soar. Why worry about the mundane tasks of living when I can waltz with the gods and goddesses in the color fields on the plane of the collective unconscious? A drawing works well when my pen lies loose in my hand. The pen does the work. All I do is focus on my breath and allow the work to develop. Ink on paper is a primal answer to the human demand for marks on a page. The drawing is codification of a private language. They are organic and evolved. Sometimes précis appears in the drawing more than a decade before it reaches a resolution in the painting. It is the incubator of ideas for the crucible of painting. Everyone must draw. I hand out pencils to people so there is no excuse. As long as you have a pencil on your person, you can make marks on a surface. As long as you can make your mark, you have a voice. As long as you have a voice, the man doesn't own you. [Begin Page 71]
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# PC Summer. Ink on Paper, 4 x 6 in., 2005.
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02_2009. Ink on paper, 11.75 x 16 in., 2009.
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Susan J. Sauerbrun's work appears in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (Franklin Furnace Archive in New York City), Harvard University's Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and many private collections. She showed her work in the Whitechapel Gallery in London and the Bronx Museum, New York Historical Society, and the National Academy Museum in New York City. Sauerbrun has won the American Drawing Biennial and the distinguished Pollock Krasner Award. She holds an MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. The artist is a founding member and former board member of London's ACME Housing Association and the ACME Gallery. She was an artist in residence at the Henry Street Settlement in Manhattan and the Longwood Arts Project in the Bronx. She lives in New York City. For further details about the artist and her work, please visit http://www.SusanJSauerbrun.com.
