
30 Back Street
Newfane, Vermont 05345
802-365.7369
sjarvis@sover.net |
In her studio overlooking
beautiful Smith Brook just outside the quintessential Vermont village
of Newfane, Susan Jarvis works pastels and oils to create work that “not
only catches your eye but engages your mind” (Burlington Free
Press, 4/24/03). Drawing on a classical training in drawing and painting
from Dartmouth College, where she was a Senior Fellow in the visual
arts, and Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she earned her M.F.A.,
Jarvis utilizes a technique called “bricolage,” or
the eclectic combination of imagery and text from sources as wide-ranging
as art history, seminal manuscripts, and popular culture to comment slyly
on subjects such as theories of love, gender, and the so-called “holy
war.” Her art has appeared in galleries and shows across the country,
including Morehead State University, Rutgers University, Hunter College
(NY), Pavilion Galleries (NJ), Seton Hall University (NJ), McKillop Gallery
(RI), Museo Gallery (WA), Southern Vermont Arts Center, Carnegie Arts
Center (NY), Lancaster Museum of Art (PA), and Tremont Street Gallery
(MA). She has received grants from the Marie Walsh Sharp Foundation and
the Vermont Arts Council, and her art has been published in Sojourner:
A Woman’s
Forum and Evergreen Chronicles.

"Bah! Bah! Bah!"
oil on panel
"Pop"
oil on panel

"Headstanding"
oil on panel
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