SUSAN J. BARRON
Ms. Barron is an award-winning artist whose exceptionally diverse work has been collected and commissioned across the country. Whether working with oil on canvas or incorporating photographic imagery, collage and text, Ms. Barron’s figurative and politically charged pieces aspire to affect social change. Her art bravely and beautifully challenges our preconceptions.
Ms. Barron’s latest work is Depicting the Invisible, a portrait series of veterans suffering from PTSD. The series is currently on exhibition at the Hunter Museum of American Art and the National Veterans Memorial and Museum simultaneously.
These breathtaking mixed media portraits shine a light on the epidemic of PTSD and suicide through a deeply personal lens. The works are layered with the veterans’ stories, laid bare in their own words. Through this project, Ms. Barron endeavors to breaks down the stigmas surrounding mental health, PTSD and the #MeToo movement.
“This body of work is in direct response to the 22 veterans who commit suicide every day in America,” says Ms. Barron. “As an artist, I want to shine a light on this epidemic of PTSD and suicide. I want to give these veterans a voice.”
Ms. Barron’s latest work is Depicting the Invisible, a portrait series of veterans suffering from PTSD. The series is currently on exhibition at the Hunter Museum of American Art and the National Veterans Memorial and Museum simultaneously.
These breathtaking mixed media portraits shine a light on the epidemic of PTSD and suicide through a deeply personal lens. The works are layered with the veterans’ stories, laid bare in their own words. Through this project, Ms. Barron endeavors to breaks down the stigmas surrounding mental health, PTSD and the #MeToo movement.
“This body of work is in direct response to the 22 veterans who commit suicide every day in America,” says Ms. Barron. “As an artist, I want to shine a light on this epidemic of PTSD and suicide. I want to give these veterans a voice.”
In her new digital collage series Conversations, Ms. Barron creates a visually inventive reordering of aesthetic languages and art historical references, redefining figurative works in our drag and drop culture.
In her celebrated series The Redefinition of the Feminine Ideal, classical images of female beauty as defined by the great masters give way to a redefinition of feminine beauty as defined by TV, magazines, and plastic surgeons. The confrontation is brutal in concept but sensual in execution.
Ms. Barron’s art has been on exhibition at galleries and museums across the country, including the Hunter Museum of American Art, SCOPE Art Show, Art Aspen, AQUA Art, The Reece Museum, HG Contemporary, The National Veterans Memorial and Museum, and many others.
Ms. Barron has worked to affect social change both in the art world and beyond. After witnessing firsthand the barriers to education that children in the third world face, she founded The Pencil Promise, a company that helped make education possible for thousands of children in need over the better part of a decade. With Barron as CEO, the company delivered school supplies as well as women's empowerment programs to Cambodia, Laos, Kenya, India, and Cuba.
Ms. Barron studied Fine Arts at Boston University, and also studied at the Art Institute of San Francisco and Yale University. She divides her time with her husband and sons between New York and Arizona.
In her celebrated series The Redefinition of the Feminine Ideal, classical images of female beauty as defined by the great masters give way to a redefinition of feminine beauty as defined by TV, magazines, and plastic surgeons. The confrontation is brutal in concept but sensual in execution.
Ms. Barron’s art has been on exhibition at galleries and museums across the country, including the Hunter Museum of American Art, SCOPE Art Show, Art Aspen, AQUA Art, The Reece Museum, HG Contemporary, The National Veterans Memorial and Museum, and many others.
Ms. Barron has worked to affect social change both in the art world and beyond. After witnessing firsthand the barriers to education that children in the third world face, she founded The Pencil Promise, a company that helped make education possible for thousands of children in need over the better part of a decade. With Barron as CEO, the company delivered school supplies as well as women's empowerment programs to Cambodia, Laos, Kenya, India, and Cuba.
Ms. Barron studied Fine Arts at Boston University, and also studied at the Art Institute of San Francisco and Yale University. She divides her time with her husband and sons between New York and Arizona.
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