Susan Arena

Artist Statement

I am an artist based in Los Angeles. I was born in a small town by the ocean in Massachusetts, right next to Salem, the “Witch City," and I studied painting and printmaking at Yale School of Art. My work ranges from painting and drawing to collage and ceramic sculpture, but has always focused on the human figure and its endless possibilities for expression.

As a mother, a sister, a daughter, a friend, a teacher, a wife, I think about the different roles we play--in our own story and in the stories of the ones we love. In each of the paintings, I try to be very specific to the people in my life, the elements of an emotional journey, while also open to the possibilities of people finding something that touches them.

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