FOM Series August '12: "Sun and Sand" by Susan Lenz

Frame of Mind presents Susan Lenz and her newest body of work, Sun and Sand, for our August FOM Series. She created this exhibit in response to a month-long artist residency at The Studios of Key West. Susan spent the entire month of March balancing the outdoor beauty of this historic paradise with the mostly indoor activity of creating fiber art. The bright colors, baked textures, and... [read more]

Frame of Mind presents Susan Lenz and her newest body of work, Sun and Sand, for our August FOM Series. She created this exhibit in response to a month-long artist residency at The Studios of Key West. Susan spent the entire month of March balancing the outdoor beauty of this historic paradise with the mostly indoor activity of creating fiber art. The bright colors, baked textures, and culturally rich island life influenced her greatly. “I spent lots of time in Key West just looking at the vivid, tropical colors ... wondering why the water was so brilliantly rich in super-saturated shades of turquoise, mint green, teal, cerulean, cyan and even shadows of deep lavender,” says Lenz. She learned that shallow, salt water over white sand reflects light quite vibrantly, like paint straight out of a tube. “The sun and the sand cause a remarkable array of color. I developed my new work with this in mind. I even started painting, which is something I rarely do.”

Susan’s painting was intended for her fiber arts. She cut the canvas into water inspired shapes and stitched them to other canvas. She also recycled an old painter’s drop cloth into works exploring the texture of the Key West beaches. Over thirty pieces have been created for the August show at Frame of Mind.

We want to congratulate Susan! She was accepted for another artist residency for the month of August and will be at the Galesburg Civic Arts Center in Illinois, and therefore will be unable to attend her opening at the FOM Series. Good news, though…her husband, Steve, and her elder son, Mathias, a newly promoted “First Soloist” with Birmingham Royal Ballet, will be standing in for her

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