About Susana
Susana Arias, was born in Panama City, Panama. She lives in Santa Cruz, California where she is a sculptor and painter.
Her passion for art shows in the range of creative venues she has pursued in her long art career such as sculpture, ceramics, painting, public art, and the many projects she has created with children.
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Honors and Awards:
- 2013 Artist of the Year by the Santa Cruz County Arts Commission,
- 2012 Project of the Year by the American Public Works Association, Monterey Bay Chapter for the Beach Area roundabout at Depot Park in Santa Cruz,
- 1997 Environs Enhancement Award by the California Transportation Commission for Finding our Past, a public art sculpture on the Bay Ave./Porter St. underpass in Santa Cruz.
- The California Archaeological Society also honored Finding our Past for Artistic Achievement and Advancement of Archaeological Awareness,
- 1987 National Endowment for the Arts Grant for her sculpture series Earthworks.
- Her work is in museum and public collections in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Latin America.
Hope you enjoy the images of her work and her observations about art.
"My work is done in series.
Each series is inspired by a glimpse of nature
a word in a book
or undercurrents in my thoughts.
It becomes my passion
and I must explore it
with form and materials.
I concern myself with the contrast
between primitive cultures
and contemporary aesthetics.
I explore man's attempt to control nature
and survive in an entropic world. "