Artist: Susana Aldanondo
Title: City Sky
Year created: 2016
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Edition: 1
Height (inches): 30
Width (inches): 40
Depth (inches): 1
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: back
Description of piece:
New York City, jazz in the distance, it's crowded yet the music makes time stand still. There's positive energy all around, looking up, a work of art: the blue sky above all of us. City Sky.
Artist bio:
An immigrant and a New Yorker. Susana lived her whole life surrounded by the sounds of tango and the art her father made out of his small apartment in NYC. Her father was an artist and muralist who sold his art to various restaurants and venues in NYC, and in the streets of Soho, NYC where she’d often accompany him during the summer months, leaving an inspirational mark on Susana. Her own experiences as an immigrant in New York City, the challenges attached to that identity, the contrast between life in the city and life in an isolating town in Vermont. She uses her studies of Sociology and International Relations as a background to her approach to make statements through her art, hoping to appeal to audiences across different cultural boundaries as she invites spectators to look beyond those boundaries through art, considering new and unexplored ways of seeing the world and each other,through gestural abstraction, splattered and dripped paint, large and thin strokes, straight lines and loose curvilinear forms, she creates movement and energy that stand out in her paintings. Susana’s art expresses the joy found in music, movement, energy, and the inner world we can connect to.
Susana’s art aims to focus on the positives, the possibilities, the ‘what ifs’, the beauty found in our cultural differences through music, movement, and the doors that await and open when we are open minded, while maintaining a focus of our collective existence and experiences. Susana’s art hopes to encourage everyone to challenge themselves to connect their own personal experiences to a much broader context; and step into a conscious and mindful path to connect with each other. Giving specific titles to her work and through gestural abstraction, splattered and dripped paint, large and thin strokes, straight lines and loose curvilinear forms , she creates movement and energy that stand out in her paintings. Her art offers hope, joy, while looking at our human experience through a lens found in the most unexpected places, and within each of us. Her art encourages each person to keep an open mind, to look within, to join each other’s conversation, to step into someone else’s shoes, to look at each other and find common ground. Susana believes art exists to connect us all, that everyone should have access to works of art and that art can touch someone’s life and help to transform it and offer hope, so Susana dedicates a portion of her work to contribute to different organizations that work to help others and to enable people to experience and enrich their lives through art. Susana’s thought is that she will offer what she has to help others, a portion of her work, her time and her dedication to give something back. When she paints, Susana is inspired by music. She listens to jazz, tango, salsa, flamenco, and popular music, her art is inspired by the music she listens to while she paints inspiring her to paint movement, energy, joy.