Susan Pasowicz

Studio Member since 2013

Born in Chicago in 1955, Susan Pasowicz is a dreamer and visionary. Fascinated by organic forms, mystery, and the supernatural, Pasowicz creates atmospheric spaces and whimsical landscapes in graphite and colored pencil. Informed by both the ordinary and the magical, hints of her memories and the everyday become tangled in webs of amorphous shapes and wispy, hair-like marks. Sometimes using both hands or multiple drawing implements simultaneously, her delicate mark-making gradually accumulates and becomes layered on the paper’s surface. Pasowicz’s work transports the viewer to nebulous, fantastical environments where mirrors, portals, windows, and doors appear as recurring motifs. With a process driven by intuitive abstraction and rendering visible the invisible, her dream-like drawings embody a visual language that echoes the mediumistic works of Georginana Houghton and Emma Kunz.

Pasowicz’s selected exhibitions include Sugar Town at Ruschman, Open Planet Project at N:News Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Human Resources at Chicago Artists Coalition, Untitled Art Fair in Miami, the Outsider Art Fair in NYC, EXPO Chicago, Barely Fair, as well as Spirit Spirits, In Bloom, Electric Pink Lemonade, and All Well and Good at Circle Contemporary.

“I usually draw tunnels, portals, curly top trees, clouds, the future. As things come into my head, I draw on a piece of paper; sometimes I use both hands and two colors at the same time. I don’t want to do the same thing I did before. You can’t be picking the same titles as the others, because it won’t be an individual thing. It depends how long I work on a drawing. If it’s a major piece of paper, I could work on it quite a long time before it’s proper. I like seeing exhibitions so I can learn from other peoples’ artwork, you can pick up different types of ideas.”