Susan Hall

Susan Hall works with multiple layers of paint, medium and texture over timeless figurative images. Hall received her bachelor of arts degree from Connecticut College and her master of fine arts degree in painting and printmaking from the University of Georgia. Her works in oil on both panel and paper are a haunting exploration and study of contrasts.

"The pattern embedded in the painting interrupts the illusion of depth established by the figure," says Hall. These paintings examine "the tension between the need for private reflection and the desire for acceptance and affirmation." Hall's newest body of work features figures softly obscured by a veil of lace. "The figure, lit as if onstage," says the artist, "demands attention yet is also obscured by a curtain of lace. The pattern embedded in the painting interrupts the illusion of depth established by the figure."


Hall received "Best of Show" in the Animal Images Show for the Chicago Anti-Cruelty Society (Juror Ed Paschke) in 2003; and the Purchase Award in the Parkside National Print Exhibition in Kenosha in 2002. She was awarded a Community Arts Assistance Program Grant by the city of Chicago in 2002 and an Individual Artist Grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts in Atlanta in 1992. Hall's work is in many private and corporate collections, including those of Amoco Oil Company, Chicago; Sandvik Publishing Ltd., Stavanger, Norway; Deloitte Touche, Chicago; David Sutherland, Sutherland Inc., Dallas; and the Miriam Perlman Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in Kenosha, WI, among others.