OM.2024.107 - Susan Reedy - USA

OM.2024.107 - Susan Reedy - USA - Read All Over - collage on panel - 8 x 8 inches - Visual Poetry and Color

 Susan Reedy is a New York-based contemporary mixed-media painter and collage artist whose work explores themes of ephemerality, time, and the transition from analog to digital communication. Holding an MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo, she creates complex, process-oriented palimpsest surfaces that mimic weathered urban environments. [1, 2, 3]

Aesthetic Style & Mediums

• Urban Palimpsests: Reedy's practice re-creates the look of weathered city walls, doorways, and public billposts. She constructs layers of text and imagery, tearing portions away to allow past and present elements to interact simultaneously. [1, 2]
• Material "Archaeological Digs": She sources her materials from flea markets, estate sales, and used bookstores. Her collages integrate deconstructed vintage ephemera, including musical scores, dictionaries, old lexicons, magazines, and advertising posters, which she blends with acrylic paint and drawing media. [1]
• Analog vs. Digital: By intentionally preserving and elevating discarded, once-functional paper objects, her work addresses the nostalgia and obsolescence of tactile media in a modern, digitized society. [, 2]

Academic and Healthcare Ventures

• Educator & Curator: Reedy has worked widely as an adjunct college instructor and independent curator.
• Arts in Healthcare: She has dedicated a portion of her background to therapeutic arts, working for SUNY Buffalo's Arts in Healthcare initiative and serving as an Artist-in-Residence at the Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo. [1]

Notable Exhibitions and Collections

Reedy has shown her work at venues including the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, OK Harris Gallery, Pierogi Gallery, The Border Project Space, and Equity Gallery. She has held solo exhibitions, notably Urban Passage at Anna Kaplan Contemporary, and participated in public projects like The Last Book and Post No Bills. Her work is included in permanent collections such as the Castellani Art Museum, Memorial Art Gallery, and the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. [1, 3]