Artist Statement

My artwork is a dialogue with the topography of identity.
The landscape of identity and the parallel relationship of being and place, have always fascinated me. The vocabulary of my current work is driven by a loss of identity as a result of immigration, and the need to restore my own ground of being.
My sculptures, drawings and narratives reference the human figure, landscape, and domestic objects to give visual form to loss and healing, memory and longing.

Biography

For over 25 years, Susan Doerr Overmyer has devoted her art career to examining our intimate connections to place and the fragile condition of being human. Her poetic sculptures, installations, drawings and narratives are shaped by personal experience.

Trained in classical ballet, Doerr Overmyer also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the College for Creative Studies, as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City. Her work has been reviewed in various U.S. newspapers and magazines along with a Critics’ Choice Review in The Chicago Reader for her exhibition “Tracing Intimate Vestiges of a Fugitive Whisper” at Artemisia Gallery.