YoloArts is honored to welcome Susan Sarback as guest juror for our 18th Annual Art Farm Exhibition.
Susan Sarback is an award-winning artist with paintings shown in galleries and museum exhibits across the United States, including New York City, San Francisco, and Sacramento. Her work is held in private collections throughout the world, including Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Sacramento, California; the Medical Center of the University of California, Davis; and the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Sacramento.
She is an Artist member of the California Art Club as well as a Signature member of the American Impressionist Society. Both feature nationwide exhibitions throughout the year which she participates in.
Articles by or about her have appeared in The Artists Magazine, American Artist Magazine, Southwest Art, The Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Magazine, and other publications. In April 2002 PBS aired a feature segment about her background, teaching technique, and her School of Light and Color.
She is the author of Capturing Radiant Light and Color in Oils and Soft Pastels, (North Light Books, 2007). In 1986 she founded The School of Light & Color in Fair Oaks, California. Since 1986, she has lectured and taught color at over 100 art schools, museums, universities, and art associations. She’s taught painting workshops and classes throughout the United States and Europe.
Please read Susan's artist statement and visit her website https://www.susansarback.com/ to learn more about her artwork.
"Growing up in New York City, I was surrounded by great art from an early age. Wandering through museums and galleries as a child, I developed a love for art with depth, character, and beauty. As a teenager I was accepted into The High School of Art and Design, one of several specialized high schools in NYC that focused on the arts, where I studied both traditional and contemporary art. Moving to California, I continued my studies in college, with a focus on abstract art, and I received both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Fine Art.
After years of studying both abstract painting and representational art, I was still searching for more. I eventually found an American Impressionist painter, Henry Hensche, who studied in the lineage of Charles Hawthorne, William Merritt Chase, and Claude Monet. For many years, an in-depth study with this master painter helped me uncover the deeper secrets about light and color that I was searching for. I began to see and paint how light affects color creating form, atmosphere, and distance.
This approach to painting was based on visual receptivity to light and color. For me, it was about clarity and honesty. I became enthralled with capturing the qualities of light. Over the years my work has evolved with my ongoing interest in eastern aesthetics, abstract art, and impressionism.
I’m most interested in painting landscapes because they reflect my fascination with the atmosphere, rhythm, and the changing effects of light and color at different times of the day, seasons, and weather conditions. I respond to these elusive qualities through suggestion rather than description while capturing the essence of a feeling, a time, or a place. For many years I painted solely outdoors, plein air. Now I paint both outdoors and in my Northern California studio.”