"My work is based in photography, capturing images with a camera, creating imagery which I then assemble on hand coated cyanotype papers. As I gather imagery, I am open to found objects, the natural world, architectural elements and vintage toys and decorative objects. In creating work I think about the ephemeral nature of things, fragile familial bonds and the materiality of cyanotype. Much of my work is large scale, inviting an immersive experience into the rich Prussian blue color inherent in cyanotype, a blue that while feeling its vast distance also draws you in. I work on paper, silk and linen and add color and detail with paint, ink, pencil and marker. I have a large archive of images to choose from when I begin a new piece responding to my own thoughts and emotions of that moment/time/day creating a unique object."
Susan Murie is a New England-based artist working with cyanotype photography. Recent exhibits include I’ll See You Again, Soon at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery Boston, The National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Art 8th International Call, 22nd Annual Frances N. Roddy Exhibition, Concord Art Center and the last several years in the MAssArt Auction. Her artwork has been published in the London-based INKQ, Inky Leaves Publishing, Spring 2020, written about in Boston Home Magazine and in ArtScope online. She was recently interviewed on the podcast, CyanUtopia. In addition to private collections, her work is in the permanent collection of Fidelity and the City of Somerville. Murie has an art studio in Boston’s South End.
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