Susan Rankaitis (born 1949) is an American multimedia artist working primarily in painting, photography and drawing. Rankaitis began her career in the 1970s as an abstract painter.[1][2] Visiting the Art Institute of Chicago while in graduate school, she had a transformative encounter with the photograms of the artist László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), whose abstract works of the 1920s and 1940s she saw as "both painting and photography."[3][4] Rankaitis began to develop her own experimental methods for producing abstract and conceptual artworks related both to painting and photography.[1][5]
Susan Rankaitis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949 |
| Education | BFA, Painting and Photography, University of Southern California, School of Fine Arts (1971), MFA Painting, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, School of Art and Design (1977) |
| Known for | Painting, Photography, Drawing |
| Movement | Abstract Photography, Conceptual Photography |
| Website | http://www.susanrankaitis.com/ |
Rankaitis draws on science in her work—particularly ideas generated through research in the fields of biology and neuroscience and she collaborates regularly with scientists on interdisciplinary projects.[6]
Education
edit- MFA, Painting and Photography, University of Southern California, School of Fine Arts (1977)[7]
- BFA, Painting, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, School of Art and Design (1971)[7]
Solo exhibitions
edit- 2017: Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present, Los Angeles County Museum of Art[8]
- 2017: Grey Matters, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY[9]
- 2007: Limbicwork, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY[10]
- 2005: Limbicwork: Pertaining to the Nature of Borders, Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania (outdoor)[10]
- 2000: Susan Rankaitis: Drawn from Science, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA[11]
- 1998: Science as Art: Susan Rankaitis, Indiana University/Purdue University Cultural Arts Gallery, Indianapolis, IN[10]
- 1997: Gold Science Ghost Drawings, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY[10]
- 1994: Susan Rankaitis: Abstracting Science, Nature and Technology, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL[10]
- 1992: DNA Series: Susan Rankaitis, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA[10]
- 1991: Susan Rankaitis: Encounters, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ[10]
- 1983: Susan Rankaitis: Inherent in Flight, Los Angeles County Museum of Art[12]
- 1983: Susan Rankaitis: L'Avion, L'Avion, International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY[13]
Academic career
editRankaitis has served since 1990 as Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art at Scripps College in Claremont, California.[14]
Public collections
edit- Art Institute of Chicago[15]
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL[16]
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art[17]
- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University[18]
- Princeton University Art Museum[19]
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[20]
- Smithsonian American Art Museum[7]
- University of Maryland, Adele H. Stamp Student Union, Contemporary Art Purchasing Program[21]
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts[22]
References
edit- ^ a b "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
- ^ Young, Cynthia (July–August 1998). "Rochester's women and photography conference". Afterimage. 26 (1): 2–3. doi:10.1525/aft.1998.26.1.2 – via Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson).
- ^ Scripps College (2016-03-09), Spotlight on Faculty: Susan Rankaitis, retrieved 2017-03-28
- ^ "Search Collection Results | The Art Institute of Chicago". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ "SUSAN RANKAITIS". Design X Demo. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
- ^ UCLA (2009-09-16), Aperture Panel: Abstraction in Photography, Hammer Museum (52:18-54:00), retrieved 2017-03-28
- ^ a b c "Susan Rankaitis entry, Smithsonian American Art Museum".
- ^ "Farrah Karapetian | Current & Upcoming Activity".
- ^ "Susan Rankaitis: Grey Matters | Artsy".
- ^ a b c d e f g "Susan Rankaitis bio, Robert Mann Gallery".
- ^ KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER (2000-06-14). "Poetic Lyricism, Poise in the Art of 'Science'". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
- ^ "Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition records, 1973-2003 EXH.001.001". www.oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
- ^ "Design X Demo | Selected-Solo-Exhibitions | 1". Design X Demo. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ "Academics | Faculty Profile". www.scrippscollege.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
- ^ "Rankaitis, Susan | The Art Institute of Chicago". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ "Susan Rankaitis | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ "Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University". cantorcollections.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ "Susan Rankaitis | Princeton University Art Museum". artmuseum.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ "Susan Rankaitis". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ "Student Affairs Giving - Contemporary Art Purchasing Program". www.sagiving.umd.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
- ^ "Chin/The Arousing (Shock Thunder), Susan Anne Rankaitis ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.