Susana Amundaraín is a Venezuelan-born American artist. After completing an MFA from the University of Denver, she returned to Caracas in the mid-1980s, becoming a prolific painter and a well-known female artist of her generation. Soon after, she was invited to the Visiting Scholar program in Performance Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she began an in-depth inquiry into performance space and multidisciplinary forms.
Working primarily with an abstract vocabulary, her practice spans painting and drawing with mixed media; scenic design; interactive installations; and the use of text as both sound texture and narrative—including operatic librettos and lyrics.
Her paintings and mixed-media works on paper sit between abstraction and representation, often described as poetic and compelling—frequently identified as lyric abstractions. Her work is represented in museums in South America and the United States, as well as private and corporate collections. She has received grants from the Howard Heinz Endowment and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NYC), and completed an artist residency at Yaddo in the summer of 2012. She lives and works in the Greater Philadelphia area.
More about Susana: www.susanaamundarain.com