Suzanne Mears, Large Pop Art Oil Painting "Pear" Modernist Colorful Composition

Description

Bold, colorful, still life oil painting of a pear. In lush, vibrant color.

SUZANNE WALLACE MEARS
During college she focused … more Bold, colorful, still life oil painting of a pear. In lush, vibrant color.

SUZANNE WALLACE MEARS
During college she focused on painting and clay. Then it became photography and clay, then only clay,
then kiln formed glass and today its kiln formed glass, painting and plasma cut steel sculpture. She also works in oil paint and encaustic. Reminiscent of the color works of Jim DIne and the fruit paintings of Tom Seghi.
She never works with only one medium. She uses color and texture to create energetic, luminous, joyous works
with the glass. Bright, bold color using reds, blues, oranges reflect my travels in color saturated countries such as Tibet, Nepal, China and Mexico. At random I use solid color fields as a challenge to my driving love of vibrant color. Her favorite themes are inspired by nature and antiquity. Kiln formed glass uses flat sheets of glass which are cut into shapes, layered and incorporate accessory elements of frits, copper wire and mesh, pieces of sheet copper
or brass and dichroic glass fired in a kiln.

EDUCATION
BA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1964
Graduate School, 44 hours, double major
Summer School University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 1963
Master Class, Patty Gray Instructor, tde Glass Furnace, Turkey
Master Class, Richard La Londe, Whidbey Island, Washington

EXHIBITIONS
2017 Suzanne Wallace Mears' Studio, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Raku Mask Firing
2016 Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Howell October Show
2015 Suzanne Wallace Mears Studio,Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Telling Tribal Tales
2015 Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM,The Art and Soul of Color
2014 Suzanne Wallace Mears' Studio, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Celebrate Valentines Day
2012 Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, New Work
2012 Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, Tribal Exploration, Part II
2011 Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,Tribal Music
2009 Suzanne Wallace Mears' Studio, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tribal Exploration,
2008 Suzanne Wallace Mears' Studio, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Flying Solo
2008 Joseph Gierek Fine Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Images and Allegories
2008 Basalt Gallery, Basalt, Colorado, Sandia and Mears
2007 Raffine', Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Raffine' Presents
2006 Studio Swan, Serenbe, Georgia, Kiln formed Glass
2005 Raffine', Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Glass and Painting
2003 Taylor's Contemporanea, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Wall of Glass
1996 Suzanne Wallace Mears' Gallery, Carbondale, Colorado, New Work
1990 Hong Kong, ceramic and collage Dancing with Color
1990 Joanne Lyon Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, Double Take

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 "In Living Color," Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2018 12 x 12, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2018 "Autumn Pop-Up", Nault Fine Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2017 12 x 12, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2017 syd entel gallery, Safety Harbor, Florida "An Emotional Journey Through Color
2015 IAO, All artist show, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2015 Line Gallery, Group show invitational, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2015 Painting in the Courtyard, Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2015 Art Now, Invitational, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2015-16 Ballet Oklahoma, annual fund-raising event, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2006-15 12 x 12, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2014 Pippin Contemporary Group Show, Santa Fe, NM, June
2014 Oklahoma Festival of the Arts, Sculpture Park, April
2014 Femme Fatales, Joseph Gierek Fine Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April
2013 National Water Media Oklahoma Exhibition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2013 Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, Group Show, 2013
2012-16 Painting in the Courtyard, Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, Ok
2012 What's the Journey All About, Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, Augus
2012 Choices, YWCA Campaign, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2012
2013-14-15 Oklahoma Festival of the Arts Sculpture Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2012 Los Angeles Art Expo, Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, January
2011 All Gallery Show, Pippin Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2011 Oklahoma Friendly, Oklahoma Art Guild, Juried Show, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2011 Reigning in the Arts, Oklahoma Art Guild, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2010-14 Red Dot, IOA Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2010 A Party Different, Invitational, Allied Arts, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2010 All Gallery Artists, Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2009 The Container Show, PAA, juried, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2009 Price Tower Arts Center, international invitational juried show, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
2007 All Gallery Artists, Janne Fine Art, Carefree, Arizona
2008-14 Oklahoma City Art Museum annual fund-raising event invitational
2008-15 Free to Live, annual fund-raising event
2008 Dinner in the Deuce, Invitational, Untitled Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2008-15 Refreshing the Palette, The Metro, Invitational
2001,10,11 Cafe City Arts Invitational, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1997-2006 All Gallery Artists Show, Hayden Hays Gallery, Colorado Springs,


MEMBERSHIPS
2017 Independant Artists of Oklahoma
2017 Oklahoma Contemporary Museum of Art
2017 Myriad Botanical Gardens
1998-2017 Oklahoma Visual Arts Association
2007-2017 Glass Art Society
2006-2017 Oklahoma City Museum of Art
2009-2017 Paseo Arts Association
2008-2017 Oklahoma Art Guild
2011-2017 New Mexico Glass Alliance less