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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Susan Mentrak
Bio
Susan Mentrak a multimedia artist-illustrator whose work is influenced by observing awkward contradictions in herself and society at large. She attended The Columbus College of Art and Design, where she focused on creating models and sculptures for use in illustration. Susan has participated in group and solo shows at the Canton Museum of Art, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art in San Angelo, Texas, the Stifel Fine Art Center in Wheeling, WV, the Akron Museum of Art, the Massillon Museum and Ohio Northern University. She has taught numerous classes and workshops. Most recently she was awarded a Creative Forces grant which is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs to improve the health and well-being of military and veteran populations.
Artist Statement
I am Dichotomy Incarnate.
I carry conflicting truths in each hand and sometimes on my shoulders.
My current work explores concepts of identity that we either put on ourselves or have been placed onto us. Demands are made by our culture, family, community & traditions. I can choose to engage my agency. I could revolt and reject it or I passively agree apathetically and allow the choices to be made for me. I seem to encompass it all. I’m a walking illustration of Jung’s duality of man and I’m okay with that.
I hope to create pieces that engage the viewer to have empathy, perhaps seeing themselves mirrored back, and hopefully, bring a sense of humor in an absurd, contradictory world.