Susan Kiefer

Making things makes me happy—from paper dolls in childhood to costumes and scenery for my dance group as a young adult to drawing and painting as the activity that has sustained me throughout my life. Themes and subject matter of my artwork have varied over the years as new ideas capture my attention and the seasons of my life are reflected in my work; what has never changed is the need to create.

My recent Expressive Geometric Abstract series explores the range of expression obtainable with compositions using primarily geometric shapes. The intrigue of working with a restricted image vocabulary is reflected in a line from Edna St. Vincent Millay: “Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare.” This series has morphed into Hard-Edged Geometric Abstracts. The clean lines and simple shapes make these paintings about exploring the fascination of color and color relationships.