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susu pianchupattana
“I want my art to be a celebration of life, to stand for the courage to seek happiness in the face of great odds, to show that we must make peace with what little time we have. It is only by finding personal peace that we can put peace back into the world.
My work is an extension of Buddhist spirituality and strongly rooted in Thamma (from “Thammachat” meaning “nature”). Thamma teaches the acceptance of happiness, sadness, anxiety, pain, fortune and misfortune as unavoidable truths, that the cycles of life cannot be controlled and that one must learn to let them come and go on their own. We can not have only happiness. We can not extinguish pain. I seek this truth of nature through my art and feel there is a shared expression of the sacredness between the religion world of East and West. I never design my paintings. I combine myexperience of the classical heritage on art with the model of the New York Abstract Expressionists. I enjoy combining diverse abstract shapes, colors and forms... adding, erasing and waiting for the painting to tell me what to do.”
Born and raised in the smiling, golden city of Bangkok, Thailand, Susu Pianchupattana moved to New York City in 2002. Numerous awards include the Hohenberg Travel Grant; Italy trip, full fellowship - 2007 participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, best painting-cash award in the 35th Annual Masur Museum of Art Juried Competition.
Education:
•MFA and Certificate in Painting, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
•Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine
•Chautauqua Institution School of Art Studio Program, New York
•Computer Aided Art and Design, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
•BA (Journalism), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
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