Check out Suzanne Steinberg’s Artwork

Today we’d like to introduce you to Suzanne Steinberg.

Suzanne, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
I started drawing in high school and took a break from art in college to pursue science. After two degrees I went back to art and found temp jobs for a while to slowly re-find my passion for art. It took me awhile to decide what subject I wanted to draw and through conversations with a gallery I was showing at I found my niche in flowers. As the years went on I found a voice and my heart in flowers as they began to remind me of my mother and her love of nature; and I began thinking of her as I drew them as a reflection of my love for her and my passion for life. I currently write and draw at the same time. As I find writing can be so expressive and profound but it can’t reach within your soul and gather all the smaller thoughts and feelings that fall through the cracks of images and words like drawing. When I draw or paint I feel as if I am expressing something unknown but yet deeply familiar as I have been doing it my entire life, and it is a constant parallel journey into finding my voice, and my own power.

We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
I draw flowers they are currently in color pencil on wood, I have previously used acrylic and oil but because of health reasons have changed to color pencils; and color pencils are where my art career began in high school. The inspiration is my mother, I usually think about how happy she was pruning the roses in my childhood home next to the pool. However, I also find it has inspired my own love of nature and the ability for nature to be cleansing and healing, it is a great place of protection at times. I hope people see my art and find peace in it, but also a beauty that is ethereal so that it can give them hope. During my hardest moments in life I have always found an honest heartfelt piece of art can change an atmosphere, and it has given me a sense of self-worth and personal value. When you sit beside a beautiful piece of art sometimes it forces you to know you are just as worthy of that admiration, beauty, introspection and love. I hope my art can do for someone else what profound and great art has given back to me in my life. It is been so of my happiest moments in life creating art, and admiring art has given me so much, something beautiful to feel when I have been lost and lost belief in human kindness. I can only hope to give that back.

Artists face many challenges, but what do you feel is the most pressing among them?
The biggest challenge facing artists today, I guess I would say personally the same challenges that face all humanity. The fight to be authentic in a community that at times scripts its inner dialogue and pressures people to be competitive and judgmental over immature and rudimentary categories that dismiss the bigger picture.

The experience of hearing pop cultural solutions that takes away our capacity to really listen to the unique experiences of individuals, because the desire to heal has trumped the expression of pain and no one is really allowed to be lost only recovering; and constantly to hide the truth creates an epidemic of recovering without any real path that is explained to those who are seeking leadership through relatable kindness. I think a great hardship of humanity today is feeling the pressures of society at times without any of the rewards of community. But I believe one day we will have a much more loving and open society. Sometimes we live very personally through the growing pains of this, as artists expressing our inner most thoughts and feelings publicly and those who are dealing with these experiences more privately.

Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
My art work is currently only publicly displayed at the wellness center on highland and 16th street. They are an outpatient wellness center that offer counseling services, sound healing, yoga, psychic work, reiki and so much more. About 20 of my other pieces are hanging in mental health offices and rehab centers but those are not open to the public. Currently I am doing gallery openings of my photography and prismacolor pieces about every six months. I am purchasing homes and flipping them, but before I am putting them on the market I am having pop up galleries of solo shows of my work. I am putting one on July 28th and the following one will be six months from them. I am going to have a short play from the book I wrote about Nietzsche’s life.

I write fictional biographies. I wrote a 500-page book about Nietzsche from his birth to insanity and it is a combination of his relationships, inner life and philosophies told through poetry. In the next pop up gallery, we are also going to have a five-course dinner inspired by the large 48 by 60 Prisma piece I will have just finished, and the play, with poetry in between each course. Tickets will probably be 30 dollars per person. If you are interested in coming to a pop-up gallery please email me at steinberg.suzanne@gmail.com for more information. I am also always looking to donate large pieces if you are a local business owner and are looking to have a larger 48 by 60 flower pieces please contact me at steinberg.suzanne@gmail.com. Thanks.

Contact Info:

• Email: steinberg.suzanne@gmail.com

Image Credit:
Suzanne Steinberg

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