Susan Kaprov is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Kaprov approaches the media of painting, drawing, photomontage, video, and site-specific installations from the standpoint of a stylistic as well as conceptual explorer. The artist considers her studio to be a ‘laboratory’ and her art as a series of ‘research projects’ where self-imposed, challenging themes are explored in-depth. The artist’s shifting shapes, rhythmic spatial conundrums, and eye-popping colors are often set in juxtaposition to one another, rendering a visual harmony from a group of opposites.

Kaprov has installed compelling public art projects throughout the US and abroad. Urban Helix (2004) is a permanent site-specific piece that is located in lobby of the Polytechic Institute of N.Y.U., at 33 Jay Street in Brooklyn. Standing 8-feet tall and 55-feet wide, dozens of colorful glass panels depict abstract shapes merged with scientific forms that allude to both the natural and man-made worlds.

Another piece titled Time Travelers (2004) appears at the Wilcox Technical High School in Connecticut and is a predominantly sea-blue, painted mural that is set along a serpentine wall, extending 15-feet high and 110-feet long. A more recent piece titled Under the Nighttime Sun (2010), located in the Presbyterian Medical Center of Dallas, Texas presents a luminous, photomontage of giant flowers on back-lit glass panels that measure 10-feet high and 28-feet wide.

Kaprov’s drawings are vibrant and abstract, serving as compliments to her public work. From 2001-2007 the artist created two series of editions titled Allegory of the Senses and Nature…last modified. In both cases, Kaprov adds and subtracts colors until a particular unifying potency is reached, pulling all disparate parts of each composition together.

Susan Kaprov’s art can be found in the permanent collections of major museums such asthe Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art NY, the Boijmans van-Beuningan Museum, Rotterdam, the Yale University Art Gallery, the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The artist’s most recent public art installation titled Going the Distance (2011) is a video located in the main entrance lobby of the Carver-Hawkeye Sports Arena in Iowa City. Kaprov is currently working on a public art project for the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, to design artwork for the city’s new bus stations.