Sue Chenoweth
Sue Chenoweth is an artist who lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona. Chenoweth’s installations and paintings are investigations of memory, myth and place explored through the visual framework of traditional historical narrative as well as architecture and science . The artist utilizes a gestural, abstract line that travels across surface and changes colors while forming dream-like narratives imbued with color and symbols.
Portraying either a swim with great white sharks or the unfolding of sub-basements of Golden Age estate houses, Chenoweth consistently makes colorful, painted traces of each experience. The artist refers to her paintings as “pre-memories” rather than recollections of actual experiences and frees the subject matter from subjectivity. By making her work accessible, Chenoweth reveals connections often overlooked.
Sue Chenoweth received her Master’s of Fine Arts at the Arizona State University. Her work has appeared in numerous galleries throughout the state. In 2005 the CUE Art Foundation hosted Chenoweth’s first solo exhibition in New York City titled The Rich Man curated by Susan Krane. This was followed by an ASU Art Museum group exhibition in 2007 titled New American City: Artists Look Forward. During the same year, the CUE Art Foundation also included her work in a group show titled Cue 5. In 2010 at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Chenoweth had a solo show titled Spyhopping: Adventures With Sue Chenoweth.
From 2000 to 2006 Chenoweth received four grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. In 2004 and 2005 the CUE Art Foundation awarded the artist a Summer Studio Residency. In 2009 the artist received the 2009 Surdna Fellowship from the Surdna Foundation in New York City. This was followed by 2 grants from the Ted Decker Catalyst Fund and a residency in 2012 with the Largo das Artes, located in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. This culminated in a solo exhibition titled Real and Applied that appeared at Largo das Artes in Brazil and at Modified Arts in Phoenix, Arizona, organized by the Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art. Chenoweth’s art has appeared in several group exhibitions, the most recent Being Human that appeared in 2015, hosted by The Lodge located in Pheonix, Arizona. In January 2016 Sue Chenoweth was a resident with AS|US and created a new painting titled Fades the Landscape from our View, measuring 36″x 48″ with the combined media of flashe, chalk paint, acrylic , model railroad turf, model railroad flock and Letroset on Mylar. In 2016, Chenoweth presented new paintings from September 20th to 26th at the Lazy Susan Gallery in New York City.