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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Susanna Harris
Museum and Gallery Assistant Otterbein UniversityArtBio
Susanna Harris, based in Columbus, Ohio, is an interdisciplinary artist working in print media, installation, and photography. Her work is situated at the intersection of resilience in environmental destruction, and through the human condition. She received her BA from Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio, and her MFA from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. She has received numerous awards, and funding for her work including an Artists: Individuals Fellowship, 2021 and an Artists in the Community Professional Development grant, 2019 from the Greater Columbus Arts Council as well as an International Travel Award, 2019 and a Research Award, 2020 from Kent State University’s Graduate Student Senate. She has been an artist in residence for The Otterbein University Post-Baccalaureate A.I.R, Westerville, Ohio, 2018; The Lancaster Festival A.I.R, Lancaster, Ohio, 2019; Zygote Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 2022; and Zea Mays Printmaking Residency, Florence, Massachusetts, 2020.
Artist Statement
As I consider my personal, and collective experiences with loss, disease, and grief I create installations with print media to explore the interconnectedness of ecological destruction, human fragility, and resilience. I am interested in nature’s reclamation and the contextual parallels that has with rebirth after hardship. I look for moments in plants, fungi, and other botanical specimens to create magnified, imagined interpretations of the awe, and wonder they invoke. Fungus only grows after decay sets in leading to beautiful structures which facilitate energy’s transfer to new organisms. I use the materiality of paper altered through hand cutting, deeply embossing, and inking to create organic forms with color altered shadows. I start with photographs I take, and then designs are hand drawn and turned into digital line images. These are used to create the printing matrix. Each plate is used to transfer imagery onto paper which is then cut by hand. Each print is stacked together fluorescing onto the layer behind it creating an ominously unnatural glow. My light installations incorporate thin transparent paper in layers to both distort and draw attention to the cut prints and material underneath.