Provincetown artist Susan Lyman spends her summers in Bay View, Michigan. Lyman works both sculpturally and in drawing/painting. Regardless of her media, her work is inspired by trees, roots, branches, saplings, and growth and decay at all stages. Her practice involves finding and scavenging found materials, carving, constructing, and deconstructing to create figural "drawings" that exist in three-dimensional space. This process of working encouraged her work in collage, which then inspired her paintings.
Lyman will join Crooked Tree Arts Center for an artist talk and conversation about her studio practice.
Coffee at 10 presentations are not ticketed and all are welcome to join us for a complimentary cup of coffee, pastry, and inspiring conversation.
This event takes place in person at Crooked Tree Arts Center-Petoskey.
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About Susan Lyman
Susan Lyman is a sculptor and painter who has lived year-round in Provincetown since 1981 when she was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center. She is also the recipient of grants from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Artists' Foundation of Boston.
Lyman has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions for over 35 years in the United States, Japan, and New Zealand. Her work is held in corporate and museum collections including Champion International Paper, Saks Fifth Avenue, Arkansas Art Center and Museum, Nelson Fine Art Museum in Tempe, AZ, and Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Lyman's work was recently included in "Branching Out: Trees as Art" at Peabody Essex Museum, and "Working Women: 36 Contemporary Women Artists" at Colby-Sawyer College. She is represented by Boston Sculptors Gallery, where her third solo exhibition, "Sculpture in the Unmaking", is on view March 1-April 2, 2017.
Lyman has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art, Hamilton College, Fine Arts Work Center, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, and University of Michigan School of Art, where she received her BFA and MFA.
Her botanical illustrations are featured in the 2016 W.W. Norton & Co. publication, Holistic Health for Adolescents by Dr. Nada Milosavljevic.
