Suzanne Blank Redstone

Suzanne (b. 1945 USA) has a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where she was selected for the European Honors Program in Rome 1965-6, and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania School of Art and Architecture. She had a teaching fellowship there with Robert Engman, a protegee of Joseph Albers.

In 1970 she left the USA for the UK and has been living and working alongside her husband on their farm in the countryside in Devon.

Suzanne says, “My work utilises light and form to engage the viewer in an open and unpredictable dialogue working between nature and the built environment.”

After her early ‘Portal Paintings’ series (1966-69) she began to explore ‘How We See’.

“My practice since 1970 has focused on revealing light and working with it, catching and exposing it, exploiting the changing movement of light as the earth rotates and moves on its axis.”

Drawing remains a central part of her practice which has for many years been focused on creating 3 dimensional structures that collect and reveal light. 

For over 50 years Suzanne has maintained a rigorous artistic practice. From 2015-2022, she was on the roster of the Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco which hosted her first American solo exhibition of the ‘Portal paintings’ in Sept 2016.

Suzanne’s work was included in the 2018 Victoria Miro exhibition, ‘Surface Work, 100 years of abstract women’s art’ and also featured in the Stephen Friedman Gallery’s presentation at Frieze Masters 2018.

Suzanne is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and her work is held in various private collections internationally.