Portable Bench for Lingering Conversations, 2020, Wood, Fabric, Metal, 20” x 13” x 5” when closed, 16” x 40” x 13” when open.

SUSAN STAINMAN

Artist Statement

I am an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and social practice. My work counters the isolation and dehumanization of Late Capitalism through embodied contemplation, interaction, and play. I am curious about how we see ourselves and those around us, how we live together. Through everyday actions—a conversation, a hug, a moment of physical touch or proximity, or a moment of rest—my work seeks an opportunity for awareness, intimacy, and transformation. Interaction and play create mindful embodied reactions as methodologies for individual and collective change.


www.susanstainman.com

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Past Solo Exhibitions:
In The Family of Things, 2024 That Moon Language, 2021 Dream Bird, Hatching The Egg, 2017
Color All The Way Through, 2014

Past Group Exhibitions: please come flying, 2022 23°47', 2°27', 2°51', 2021 SYMPOIESIS, 2020 (s)(o)(f)(t) (w)(i)(n)(d)(o)(w)(s), 2020 Eleven x Seventeen, 2019 NADA House, 2019
Women On The Line, 2017
Who Cares?, 2017
New Art In An Old House, 2016
Unframed, 2015
If These Walls... II, 2015
If These Walls..., 2014