Susan Dorothea White Bibliography

THE MONTSERRATE GALLERY PRESENTS PROTRAYLS:
An exhibition by Australian artist Susan Dorothea White

Susan Dorothea White is an Australian painter, sculptor and printmaker. Ms White works in a variety of media including acrylic on panel, water­ color, collage, sandstone, wood, bronze, mixed media, lithography and blockprinting.

Ms White's exhibition is entitled Portrayals, since the common theme of her work is portrayal of the human image: She uses facial expressions and hand gestures to describe the human condition in her portraits and narrative paintings.

She also creates visual images of symbols and idioms by portraying them in the human form such as the bronze sculpture The Soprano, based on the treble clef symbol. Fantasy and irony are also important features of her art. The satirical painting The Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Times, is an example of her narrative work whereby the tradi­tional sins are reversed and each of the seven sec­tions are represented by a noxious species intro­duced to Australia. Based on a female character from Aboriginal mythology, the bronze sculpture titled The Spirit of the Willy-Willy Wind is a por­trait of a wind. This sculpture expresses che energy and capricious nature of a miniature tornado. A face can be seen from every angle because the one head carries three different views of the face. The Dance of Eternity, also a bronze sculpture, is a torso-less male figure, wound in the endless surface of a moebius strip, and symbolizing the energy of continuous movement. Recovery After Brain 

Surgery is a powerful self portrait describing the artist's experience from surgery to recovery, expressed through different views of the subject, the operating hands of the surgeons, the support­ ing hand of the visitor, views of the ward, wilting kangaroo paws and so on.

Ms White was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1941. She graduated from the South Australian School of Art and has participated in group and solo exhibitions since 1957. Since 1980 she has repre­ sented Australia in more than 50 international exhi­ bitions and biennales in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Norway, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Eng­ land, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Korea, Japan, the Republic of China, Brazil, Canada and the USA. Many honors have been bestowed upon her and she has received numerous awards over the years, among them the John Gero Painting Prize, Macquarie University Australia and The Morning­ ton Peninsula Print Purchase Award. Her work is in public, private and museum collections worldwide. Ms White is cited in Who's Who in International Art.

Portrayals will be on view from September 11 to 30 at the Montserrat Gallery 584 Broadway, New York. The exhibition opening will take place on September 17 between 6.00 and 8.00 pm.