Susan Rankaitis
Born1949
Cambridge, Massachusetts
EducationBFA, 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 forPainting, Photography, Drawing
MovementAbstract Photography, Conceptual Photography
Websitehttp://www.susanrankaitis.com/

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]

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

Solo exhibitions

Academic career

Rankaitis has served since 1990 as Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art at Scripps College in Claremont, California.[14]

Public collections

References

  1. ^ a b "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  2. ^ Young, Cynthia (July–August 1998). "Rochester's women and photography conference". Afterimage. 26 (1): 2 – via Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson).
  3. ^ Scripps College (2016-03-09), Spotlight on Faculty: Susan Rankaitis, retrieved 2017-03-28
  4. ^ "Search Collection Results | The Art Institute of Chicago". www.artic.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  5. ^ "SUSAN RANKAITIS". Design X Demo. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  6. ^ UCLA (2009-09-16), Aperture Panel: Abstraction in Photography, Hammer Museum (52:18-54:00), retrieved 2017-03-28
  7. ^ a b c "Susan Rankaitis entry, Smithsonian American Art Museum".
  8. ^ "Farrah Karapetian | Current & Upcoming Activity".
  9. ^ "Susan Rankaitis: Grey Matters | Artsy".
  10. ^ a b c d e f g "Susan Rankaitis bio, Robert Mann Gallery".
  11. ^ KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER (2000-06-14). "Poetic Lyricism, Poise in the Art of 'Science'". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  12. ^ "Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition records, 1973-2003 EXH.001.001". www.oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  13. ^ "Design X Demo | Selected-Solo-Exhibitions | 1". Design X Demo. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  14. ^ "Academics | Faculty Profile". www.scrippscollege.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  15. ^ "Rankaitis, Susan | The Art Institute of Chicago". www.artic.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  16. ^ "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  17. ^ "Susan Rankaitis | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  18. ^ "Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University". cantorcollections.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  19. ^ "Susan Rankaitis | Princeton University Art Museum". artmuseum.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  20. ^ "Susan Rankaitis". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  21. ^ "Student Affairs Giving - Contemporary Art Purchasing Program". www.sagiving.umd.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  22. ^ "Chin/The Arousing (Shock Thunder), Susan Anne Rankaitis ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.

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