Suzanne Mears, Large Pop Art Oil Painting "Pear" Modernist Colorful Composition Suzanne Mears

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Bold, colorful, still life oil painting of a pear. In lush, vibrant color. SUZANNE WALLACE MEARS During college she focused … Read more Bold, colorful, still life oil painting of a pear. In lush, vibrant color. SUZANNE WALLACE MEARS During college she focused on painting and clay. Then it became photography and clay, then only clay, then kiln formed glass and today its kiln formed glass, painting and plasma cut steel sculpture. She also works in oil paint and encaustic. Reminiscent of the color works of Jim DIne and the fruit paintings of Tom Seghi. She never works with only one medium. She uses color and texture to create energetic, luminous, joyous works with the glass. Bright, bold color using reds, blues, oranges reflect my travels in color saturated countries such as Tibet, Nepal, China and Mexico. At random I use solid color fields as a challenge to my driving love of vibrant color. Her favorite themes are inspired by nature and antiquity. Kiln formed glass uses flat sheets of glass which are cut into shapes, layered and incorporate accessory elements of frits, copper wire and mesh, pieces of sheet copper or brass and dichroic glass fired in a kiln. EDUCATION BA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1964 Graduate School, 44 hours, double major Summer School University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 1963 Master Class, Patty Gray Instructor, tde Glass Furnace, Turkey Master Class, Richard La Londe, Whidbey Island, Washington EXHIBITIONS 2017 Suzanne Wallace Mears' Studio, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Raku Mask Firing 2016 Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Howell October Show 2015 Suzanne Wallace Mears Studio,Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Telling Tribal Tales 2015 Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM,The Art and Soul of Color 2014 Suzanne Wallace Mears' Studio, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Celebrate Valentines Day 2012 Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, New Work 2012 Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, Tribal Exploration, Part II 2011 Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,Tribal Music 2009 Suzanne Wallace Mears' Studio, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tribal Exploration, 2008 Suzanne Wallace Mears' Studio, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Flying Solo 2008 Joseph Gierek Fine Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Images and Allegories 2008 Basalt Gallery, Basalt, Colorado, Sandia and Mears 2007 Raffine', Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Raffine' Presents 2006 Studio Swan, Serenbe, Georgia, Kiln formed Glass 2005 Raffine', Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Glass and Painting 2003 Taylor's Contemporanea, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Wall of Glass 1996 Suzanne Wallace Mears' Gallery, Carbondale, Colorado, New Work 1990 Hong Kong, ceramic and collage Dancing with Color 1990 Joanne Lyon Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, Double Take GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 "In Living Color," Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2018 12 x 12, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2018 "Autumn Pop-Up", Nault Fine Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2017 12 x 12, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2017 syd entel gallery, Safety Harbor, Florida "An Emotional Journey Through Color 2015 IAO, All artist show, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2015 Line Gallery, Group show invitational, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2015 Painting in the Courtyard, Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2015 Art Now, Invitational, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2015-16 Ballet Oklahoma, annual fund-raising event, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2006-15 12 x 12, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2014 Pippin Contemporary Group Show, Santa Fe, NM, June 2014 Oklahoma Festival of the Arts, Sculpture Park, April 2014 Femme Fatales, Joseph Gierek Fine Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 2013 National Water Media Oklahoma Exhibition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2013 Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, Group Show, 2013 2012-16 Painting in the Courtyard, Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, Ok 2012 What's the Journey All About, Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, Augus 2012 Choices, YWCA Campaign, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2012 2013-14-15 Oklahoma Festival of the Arts Sculpture Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2012 Los Angeles Art Expo, Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, January 2011 All Gallery Show, Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2011 Oklahoma Friendly, Oklahoma Art Guild, Juried Show, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2011 Reigning in the Arts, Oklahoma Art Guild, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2010-14 Red Dot, IOA Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2010 A Party Different, Invitational, Allied Arts, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2010 All Gallery Artists, Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2009 The Container Show, PAA, juried, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2009 Price Tower Arts Center, international invitational juried show, Bartlesville, Oklahoma 2007 All Gallery Artists, Janne Fine Art, Carefree, Arizona 2008-14 Oklahoma City Art Museum annual fund-raising event invitational 2008-15 Free to Live, annual fund-raising event 2008 Dinner in the Deuce, Invitational, Untitled Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2008-15 Refreshing the Palette, The Metro, Invitational 2001,10,11 Cafe City Arts Invitational, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1997-2006 All Gallery Artists Show, Hayden Hays Gallery, Colorado Springs, MEMBERSHIPS 2017 Independant Artists of Oklahoma 2017 Oklahoma Contemporary Museum of Art 2017 Myriad Botanical Gardens 1998-2017 Oklahoma Visual Arts Association 2007-2017 Glass Art Society 2006-2017 Oklahoma City Museum of Art 2009-2017 Paseo Arts Association 2008-2017 Oklahoma Art Guild 2011-2017 New Mexico Glass Alliance See less