Terri Suess

Inspired by Pablo Neruda’s poems in Ode to Common Things, Terri seeks abstract images in every-day surroundings. She always carries a camera and, often, a drawing journal. Her photos and life drawings form the structural basis for abstract paintings. Paintings emerge when the brush and colors sing, enlivened by light and form.

Terri Suess studied drawing at the Free Association in New York, portrait painting at Newark’s School of Fine and Industrial Arts, abstract painting and portrait painting at the Art Students’ League in New York. She has exhibited paintings in New York, New Jersey and Seattle.

As a member of New York artists’ group, Prometheus, Terri facilitated, with pianist Birgit Mazerath,.an abstract drawing workshop at the “Making Sense Colloquium” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Participants made drawings and paintings based on Brigit's performance of Beethoven’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II and Syrene Dance Company’s live interpretation of the music.