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Susan Benarcik

Bio

Susan Benarcik is an installation artist and surface designer based in New York City. Her work is

exhibited across the country in private collections, sculpture parks and museums such as the Brooklyn

Botanic Garden, Lyman Allyn Art Museum and the Delaware Center Contemporary Art. The artist is

the recipient of a 2009 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, and the 2006 E. Avery Draper Award for

Outstanding Craft Exhibition at the DCCA.

Evidencing a fondness and respect for honest and simple materials, Benarcik incorporates both recycled

and newly manufactured sustainable materials into highly tactile and evocative contemplative compositions.

The artist’s concern for the environment is made evident as she takes elemental forms of the natural world

and carefully transforms them by stacking, stringing, layering, knotting, and weaving them into dimensional

sculpture for public and private spaces. These interior and exterior compositions become part of our daily

cognitive experience, and bring equilibrium to our senses

The artist has a Master’s degree in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She was an apprentice

at the Fabric Workshop of Philadelphia, a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas and

is currently a fellow with CFEVA; the Creative Fellowship for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia.

She continues to design and install site-responsive and living installations for green spaces.

Mental Notesbook pages and copper wire

The Mooringtree limbs and live saplings

Liminalsteel, wire, and string

Loosing Touch with Realityplaster cast hands and wheat grass

30 Days; A Collection Of Disparate Memoriesnewspaper, wire, and wax

Sensatustree limbs, branches, and steel wire

Watermarkbook pages and cardboard tubes

Resident Podsgrape vine and fired clay

Ladder Patternscopper wire and dress patterns

30 Days for Iktomeigrape vine and book pages