Currently Showing: Susan Diggs Graeber

SUSAN D. GRAEBER

Boston Museum School of Fine Arts 1976-1977
AIX en PROVENCE Painting Program
Maryland Institute BFA 1980

My life long interest in painting began in early childhood attending the Bryn Mawr School, where creativity was encouraged. I attended Hobart William Smith Colleges for one year but decided to commit to an art college rather than a liberal arts program and transferred to the Boston Museum School for two years. While there, my family moved to Brussels, Belgium for three years. During my summer visits, I had the benefit of traveling throughout Europe and seeing many museum collections first hand. I also benefited from a number of European painting programs. I then transferred to the Maryland Institute and graduated in 1980. I had a few jobs related to the arts including a gallery position, settled down and married an art dealer who is a works on paper dealer, and had two children.

I always painted plein air when our children were growing up, especially enjoying Maine and the Maryland countryside. I now am a full-time painter and maintain a studio in The Mill Centre, Baltimore but mostly prefer to paint on location. I love to paint on Monhegan Island, Mount Desert Island, New Mexico and Maryland. I am influenced by the artists Arthur WesleyDow, Fairfield Porter,Wayne Thiebaud, Neil Welliver, Édouard Vulliard and Henri Matisse. I am most attracted to places in nature where light is creating abstract shapes, and color is creating a mood. Capturing fleeting light is always a challenge, and a thrill when occasionally it works in a painting!When painting, or even seeing that spot that pulled my attention, I am drawn to unexpected movements of light and beauty.

Valley Planning Council Exhibits 2005 – present
(received awards in 2015 and 2017)
Plein Air Easton 2008
(winning best Maryland artist award)
Bishops Stock Gallery in Snow Hill, MD 2008 and 2023
Gunpowder Falls exhibits 2008 and 2009
Gibson Island Exhibit 2009 and 2018
Bryn Mawr School landscape show 2010
Circle Gallery in Annapolis, MD 2010
Carroll County Arts landscape show 2011
Crystal Moll Gallery in Baltimore, MD – group landscape show 2011
American Painting Gallery in Washington, DC December 2011 – January 2012
Cylburn Arboretum biannual “Celebration of Art” exhibition 2012 – present
(highest painting award in 2012)
McBride Gallery in Annapolis, MD 2015
The Peale Museum Cityscape exhibition 2015
Beaudry Gallery in Dalles, TX 2018
Annie Gould Gallery in Gordonsville, VA 2018 – 2023
Quirk Gallery in Charlottesville, VA 2023
Camden Falls Gallery in Camden, ME 2014 – present
Swallowfield, Northest Harbor, ME 2018 – present
Bozzuto Green Gallery in Brooklandville, MD 2018 – present

A featured artist in the 2015 book 100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic by Gary Pendleton

Are you an artist interested in exhibiting your work in our space?  Please email us at artexhibitions@rolandparkchurch.org. Include your contact information along with a few pictures of your work, their titles and sizes. We look forward to hearing from you!