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Sue Krzyston BIOGRAPHY
Born 1948. Known for: Three dimensional and light filled paintings of southwest motif pottery, baskets.
Surrounded in her home by the Native American Indian artifacts that she collects and paints, Sue Krzyston believes that these objects represent the "soul" of the people who create them. "I strive to... Read full biography
Surrounded in her home by the Native American Indian artifacts that she collects and paints, Sue Krzyston believes that these objects represent the "soul" of the people who create them. "I strive to capture that feeling on canvas by using the nuance and essence of an object and utilize the effects... Read full biography
Surrounded in her home by the Native American Indian artifacts that she collects and paints, Sue Krzyston believes that these objects represent the "soul" of the people who create them. "I strive to capture that feeling on canvas by using the nuance and essence of an object and utilize the effects of light and shadow to depict the beautiful and varied textures of each item that I select for my compositions. Light is so important in making the artifacts relate to each other. I try to make the... Read full biography
Surrounded in her home by the Native American Indian artifacts that she collects and paints, Sue Krzyston believes that these objects represent the "soul" of the people who create them. "I strive to capture that feeling on canvas by using the nuance and essence of an object and utilize the effects of light and shadow to depict the beautiful and varied textures of each item that I select for my compositions. Light is so important in making the artifacts relate to each other. I try to make the inanimate objects come alive in the glowing warmth of the light. Since Sue lives in Arizona and often goes to Santa Fe, she is always on the hunt for interesting new pottery, baskets and artifacts that "speak" to her to incorporate in her paintings. "I... Read full biography
Surrounded in her home by the Native American Indian artifacts that she collects and paints, Sue Krzyston believes that these objects represent the "soul" of the people who create them. "I strive to capture that feeling on canvas by using the nuance and essence of an object and utilize the effects of light and shadow to depict the beautiful and varied textures of each item that I select for my compositions. Light is so important in making the artifacts relate to each other. I try to make the inanimate objects come alive in the glowing warmth of the light. Since Sue lives in Arizona and often goes to Santa Fe, she is always on the hunt for interesting new pottery, baskets and artifacts that "speak" to her to incorporate in her paintings. "I am always inspired by the artisans whose work I collect and feel that my paintings are an 'art form within art'". Krzyston... Read full biography
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Surrounded in her home by the Native American Indian artifacts that she collects and paints, Sue Krzyston believes that these objects represent the "soul" of the people who create them. "I strive to capture that feeling on canvas by using the nuance and essence of an object and utilize the effects of light and shadow to depict the beautiful and varied textures of each item that I select for my compositions. Light is so important in making the artifacts relate to each other. I try to make the inanimate objects come alive in the glowing warmth of the light.
Since Sue lives in Arizona and often goes to Santa Fe, she is always on the hunt for interesting new pottery, baskets and artifacts that "speak" to her to incorporate in her paintings. "I am always inspired by the artisans whose work I collect and feel that my paintings are an 'art form within art'".
Krzyston's many collectors comment on the three dimensional realism that she achieves in each painting. They say that they feel like they could pick up a piece of the glowing pottery, feel the texture of a rug or pluck a bead off a intricately painted moccasin.
Since she is a self-taught artist, Krzyston has developed her own painting techniques. "I admire the Dutch masters paintings. I use the rich dark backgrounds that they used, to accentuate the light-filled foreground." She uses many thin glazes of paint to achieve the rich glow of an object, and builds paint in many layers in the highly realistic beads that she paints on the moccasins so that they actually appear to be real beads.
Sue is also known for her traditional Still-life paintings featuring cobalt vases, lace, copper, porcelain and fruit. She was honored to have been commissioned by a fruit and vegetable importer to do paintings of a variety of their products with an Arizona themed composition for the Washington DC offices of the Arizona Senators and Congressmen. " It was such a thrill to work with the organization and to be flown to Washington to help in presenting the paintings and to see where they would displayed."
In addition to having her oil paintings in many collections and shows, her work has been juried for 11 years into the well known, "top 50 female Western Artists" COWGIRL UP! SHOW at the Desert Caballeros Western Art Museum in Wickenburg, Az. She also has been invited many times into the well known Settlers West Miniature Show in Tucson, AZ. Krzyston was honored to have been invited to become an Honorary Artist Member of the prestigious Mountain Oyster Club of Western art collectors in Tucson and was inducted in November, 2018 at the 49th annual show.
EXHIBITIONS:
2021
NOAPS ( National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society) "Best of America Exhibition" Dana Gallery, Missoula, Montana
2021
NOAPS "Spring Online International Exhibit"
2021
American Women Artists "Lifting the Sky; Elevating the Work of American Women Artists"
2020
NOAPS "2020 Fall Online Exhibit"
2007-2019
COWGIRL UP! Art From the Other Half of the West, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Az
1995-2020
SETTLERS WEST MINIATURE SHOW, Tucson, AZ
2007-2021
MOUNTAIN OYSTER CLUB SHOW, Tucson, AZ
2013-2014
SCOTTSDALE SALON OF FINE ART, Legacy Gallery
HONORS:
2021
Merit Award NOAPS "Spring 2021 Online International Exhibit"
2019
Installed as Honorary Artist Member of the prestigious Mountain Oyster Club, Tucson AZ
2019
Guest Lecturer Mountain Oyster Club, "Friends of Western Art" , Tucson, AZ
2019
Guest Lecturer Tucson Museum of Art , "Western Art Patrons", Tucson, Az
2016
Commissioned to do paintings for the Arizona Senators and Congressmen for their Washington DC offices.
PUBLICATIONS
2022
IMAGES, Arizona (Jan. issue) Cover and feature article
2015
Sedona Monthly Magazine (May issue) Feature article
2011
Western Art Collector Magazine (Aug. issue) Feature article
2007
Western Art Collector Magazine (premier issue) Feature article
Source/Submitted 2023 by: Sue KrzystonBiography from the Archives of askART
A passion for still lifes of Southwest Indian artifacts, she paints them with a keen awareness of detail and the use of dramatic lighting, often with very dark backgrounds. Mountain Trails Gallery in Sedona had a special showing of her work in October 1998 and in 1999.