Susan Lerner is a New York City based contemporary hand-cut collage artist. As a Certified Flavor Chemist, Susan ‘collaged’ chemicals into unique flavors but now she uses paper as her medium. She loves the collage process, finding joy in the hunt for imagery, meditation in cutting paper and delight in creating nostalgic compositions. She has shown her work in five solo shows in New York City and Northwest Connecticut and over 25 group shows including in Chelsea and Brooklyn, NY, Wiesbaden, Germany and the Scandinavian Collage Museum in Norway. Her work has most recently been published in ‘Collage Care: Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage’ by Laurie Kanyer. Susan is the co-founder of the New York Collage Ensemble, which promotes a supportive community of like-minded analog collage artists. Her work can be found at www.mixdmediamashup.com, on Instagram @mixdmediamashup and @nycollageensemble. Her most notable sales are to restaurateur David Bouley and the Kanyer Art Collection.
Susan Lerner: Readers World Atlas
The process of vintage book excavation, dissecting unwanted images and text from books and atlases is particularly meditative to me. Each page is carefully deconstructed to render lines and forms that are artistically appealing.. I conjure up nostalgia through location and memories using vintage atlases and books. As a form of visual storytelling, I literally travel down memory lane, uncovering hidden gems of our lives by carefully dissecting and removing ‘land’ from the page. Like an archeologist, I track the winding paths of the map’s topography gently digging into the layers and sediment to unearth what lies beneath. The process of deconstructing the past helps to explore and understand our present selves.
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