Susan York

Susan York creates drawings, sculpture, installations, and prints that examine phenomenology and perception. A lifelong Zen practice and the stillness of the expansive New Mexico landscape, where York has lived the majority of her life, are important influences on her reductive work. Working in graphite, porcelain, cast iron, wood, and copper York addresses site and dimensionality by combining precise geometry, asymmetry, and the tension between objects (or line) and existing architecture, edges, and borders. Susan York earned her MFA in ceramics from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and has exhibited extensively including The Drawing Center, Mies van der Rohe Haus, and Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Her work is included in many public and private collections including The British Museum; Brooklyn Museum; Kunst Museum Winterthur; Morgan Library & Museum; Museum Haus Konstruktiv; Museum für Konkrete Kunst; NM Museum of Art; The Panza Collection and Beinecke Library. She is a Joan Mitchell Fellow and the recipient of a Gottlieb Foundation grant.