View from the Studio

Studio on Back Street

 

 In her studio overlooking beautiful Smith Brook just outside the quintessential Vermont village of Newfane, Susan Jarvis works pastels and oils to create work that “not only catches your eye but engages your mind” (Burlington Free Press, 4/24/03). Drawing on a classical training in drawing and painting from Dartmouth College, where she was a Senior Fellow in the visual arts, and Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she earned her M.F.A., Jarvis utilizes a technique called “bricolage,” or the eclectic combination of imagery and text from sources as wide-ranging as art history, seminal manuscripts, and popular culture to comment slyly on subjects such as theories of love, gender, and the so-called “holy war.” Her art has appeared in galleries and shows across the country, including Morehead State University, Rutgers University, Hunter College (NY), Pavilion Galleries (NJ), Seton Hall University (NJ), McKillop Gallery (RI), Museo Gallery (WA), Southern Vermont Arts Center, Carnegie Arts Center (NY), Lancaster Museum of Art (PA), and Tremont Street Gallery (MA). She has received grants from the Marie Walsh Sharp Foundation and the Vermont Arts Council, and her art has been published in Sojourner: A Woman’s Forum and Evergreen Chronicles.

 

To contact the artist, add your name to the mailing list, or inquire about prices or purchasing,
email sjarvis@sover.net  
or call to arrange a studio visit: 802-365-7369.