Susanne Arnold
Excavation of a Life: Satellite Exhibition at Boyd Realty
APRIL 25 - MAY 17, 2025
Artist Statement: Susanne Arnold
Excavation of a Life is a series of colored ink drawings I created in the 80s, a transitional time in my life. Following a trip to Stonehenge and Avebury in England, and using the theme of an archaeological excavation, I created drawings that combined the imaginary with the personal events I experienced during that time.
visual artist and instructor
Biography:
A painter and sculptor, Susanne K. Arnold exhibits her work regionally and nationally. She holds an MA in Museum Studies and an MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. Honors include two Virginia Museum Fellowships and national artist grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundations. Solo exhibitions include the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Portsmouth Museum, 1708 and Artspace Galleries, and a retrospective at McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, Virginia. Her talk on “Ephemeral Figures in Wax,” was presented at the 6th and the 7th International Encaustic Conferences in Provincetown, MA, and printed in ProWax Journal.
Arnold’s work explores the overlay of cultural memory and personal experience, utilizing a vocabulary of images and a variety of painting techniques. She has presented workshops throughout Virginia as an Artist-in-Education for the Virginia Commission for the Arts and has taught state-wide on a contractual basis. She held positions as Gallery Director/Curator at Mary Washington College, University of Richmond and two art centers. A member of Artspace, an artist-run gallery, she lives in Richmond, Virginia.
visual artist and instructor