Mediums - oil and digital printmaking

Artist's Statement -Swaying marsh grasses, views from a car window, a lone figure in a boat–all under big changing skies: these are the things I paint about. Rich transparent glazes laid over scumbles of thicker paint create an illusion of depth and space. The method is old and careful and allows me to pin the mood of a landscape like a butterfly under glass. Recent paintings describe the layering of visual and emotional impressions of these opposite ends of the Gulf Coast. The use of frames painted to continue the canvas suggest a parallel, subtly differing color and place. An artist friend visiting the studio remarked that these works reminded her of how it looks to see a landscape through a car windshield, and also through the rear window at the same time. Which is probably how landscape is most often viewed today. Together with the further selective photographic process, which Downing-White uses to gain information, the resulting imagery as an amalgam of document and remembered image, chance and choice, filtered through the present and the past. Like songs and stories, some of the works are semi-autobiographical, others are about other people, places or events.

Gallery Affiliations - LINKS TO GALLERIES: <ahref="http://susandowningwhite.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Gulf Coast Flora, my blog</a> <ahref="http://susandowningwhite.com" target="_blank">Susan Downing White Gulf Coast Landscapes</a> <ahref="http://sdwportraits.foliosnap.com" target="_blank">Portraits by Susan Downing White</a> <ahref="http://www.coleprattgallery.com" target="_blank">Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA</a> <ahref="http://www.buchanangallery.com" target="_blank">Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX</a> <a href="http://www.casgallery.com" target="_blank">CAS Gallery, Montgomery, AL</a> GALLERIES: Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans LA Buchanan Gallery, Galveston TX CAS Gallery, Montgomery AL Gallery 54, Mobile AL COLLECTIONS: Portraiture in private collections 1990 - present Battle House Hotel, Mobile, AL State of Alabama, Gordon Persons Building Montgomery Center for Commerce, Montgomery, AL Balch & Bingham, Birmingham, AL Tiger Management, Atlanta, GA Retirement Systems of Alabama, Montgomery The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC Bradshaw & Assoc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Mobile Airport Authority, AL Sheraton Hotels, Birmingham, AL University of South Alabama, University Center, Mobile Business Partnership of Alabama, Montgomery Isabel Anderson Comer Museum and Arts Center, Sylacauga, AL Retirement Systems of Alabama, Montgomery, AL Saenger Theatre, Mobile, AL., APL Public Art Project 1992-1994 Gold Coast Casino, Biloxi, MS, mural, Southern Progress Corp., Birmingham, AL Sheraton Hotels Mobile Infirmary Medical Center Center for Commerce, Montgomery, AL, diptych Mobile Arts Council/Mobile Public Library Mobile Museum of Art/Art Patrons League of Mobile

Exhibitions - A Tribute to Cole Pratt: His Gallery First Fifteen Years, 1993-2008, New Orleans Museum of Art, June 30-Sept 21, 2008 Places East of Here: Recent Work by Susan Downing-White, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA. November 2007 Recent Work by Susan Downing-White, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA Recent Work, solo, December 2006 Southeastern Biennial Exhibiton 2005"Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL Postcards to the CAC, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA June 2004 Weather Changes & Related Events: recent work by Susan Downing-White, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA, December 2003 Rock the Bog, Nature Conservancy Benefit Show & Auction, November 2003 Southern Current Space 301/Center for the Living Arts, Mobile AL, Oct. 2003 Ode to a Dry Season: Paintings by Susan Downing-White, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL March 2001 Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. 2000 Sharing Space: Susan Downing & Randy Moberg, A Studio Show, Mobile, AL, February 2000. Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA recent work, solo, 1999 Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA, Recent work, solo, 1996 M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Landscape, Group Exhibition, 1995 Unbroken Circle: Selections from juried exhibitions in Alabama, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery, 1995 Alabama Landscape, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL1993-4 The Artist Selects: Two contemporary landscape painters, Comer Museum & Arts Center, Sylacauga, AL 1992 Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, two-person 1990. Whiting Art Center, Fairhope, AL, solo, 1990 An Alabama Reunion: Selections from the permanent collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, 1989 Weber State University Gallery, Ogden, UT, Landscape Invitational, 2001 National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, KS, 1994 Red Clay Survey of Contemporary Southern Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, catalog, 1994 Boston Printmakers, Annual National Exhibition, Boston, MA 1991 Alabama Showcase 11, State Council on the Arts, Montgomery, AL 1991 Aesthetics 90, McPherson College, MO. National Exhibition Recent Realism 1990, International Exhibition. Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, NY catalog award The Printed Image, National Print Exhibition. Graham Horstman Gallery, Denton, TX, 1990 Realism 90, National Exhibition. Parkersburg Art Center, WVA Bi-State Competition, Meridian Museum of Art, MS 1987, 89 purchase award National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha 1988 catalog Dulin National Works on Paper, Knoxville Museum of Art, TN