Susan Silton
{{short description|American artist based in Los Angeles}}
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Susan Silton (born 1956) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles.{{Cite web|url=https://www.susansilton.com/biography|title=SUSAN SILTON — Biography|website=SUSAN SILTON|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-30}} Her projects incorporate photography, video, installation, performance, sound, and language. Her work is exhibited in museums, galleries, and often is in public spaces, such as her contribution to the exhibition How Many Billboards? Art in Stead{{cite web|url=http://www.howmanybillboards.org/susan-silton.html|title=MAK Center for Art and Architecture|publisher=}} and her operatic work, A Sublime Madness in the Soul,{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-sixth-street-bridge-sublime-madness-opera-susan-silton-20160127-column.html|title=Saying goodbye to the Sixth Street Bridge with 'Sublime Madness' opera by artist Susan Silton - LA Times|author=Los Angeles Times|date=28 January 2016|work=Los Angeles Times}} which presented through the windows of her studio in downtown Los Angeles and was visible from the Sixth Street Viaduct just prior to its being demolished and reconstructed.
In 1995, she won a James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography.{{Cite web|url=https://sitesantafe.org/exhibition/susan-silton/|title=Susan Silton - SITE Santa Fe|website=sitesantafe.org|language=en-US|access-date=2016-03-07}}
Themes
Silton's work investigates perception especially as it relates to subjectivity and subject positions.{{cite web|url=http://artpulsemagazine.com/takin-it-to-the-streets-an-interview-with-susan-silton|title=ARTPULSE MAGAZINE » Features » Takin' It To The Streets. An Interview With Susan Silton|publisher=}} Her projects are often direct responses to current events, the dynamics of power, and celebrity culture.{{cite web|url=http://artforum.com/words/id=41902|title=Susan Silton|author=As told to Natilee Harren|work=artforum.com}} She is especially interested in the perceptions of celebrity, the accessibility of public space, activism, and coded language.
Select Exhibitions and Performances
- 2018 It Passes Like a Thought, Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA {{Cite web|url=https://beallcenter.uci.edu/exhibitions/it-passes-thought|title=It Passes like a Thought {{!}} Beall Center for Art + Technology|website=beallcenter.uci.edu|access-date=2020-03-05}}
- 2017 Quartet for the End of Time (in conjunction with LAND, Los Angeles Nomadic Division), Los Angeles.{{Cite web|url=https://nomadicdivision.org/exhibition/upcoming-exhibition-quartet-for-the-end-of-time/|title=You are being redirected...|website=nomadicdivision.org|access-date=2020-03-05}}
- 2017 Ours is a City of Writers, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery{{Cite web|url=https://www.lamag.org/portfolio_page/ours-is-a-city-of-writers/|title=Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery {{!}} Ours is a City of WritersFebruary 5 – March 26, 2017|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-05}}
- 2015 The Whistling Project, part of 20 Years/20 Shows, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico{{Cite web|url=https://sitesantafe.org/event/susan-silton-and-the-crowing-hens-performance/|title=Susan Silton and The Crowing Hens Performance|website=sitesantafe.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-05}}
- 2015 Exchange, Proxy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA{{Cite web|url=https://www.proxygallery.com/copy-of-jennifer-lanski|title=Susan Silton|website=proxygallery|language=en|access-date=2020-03-05}}
References
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External links
- [https://vimeo.com/user4910734 Vimeo page]
- [https://vimeo.com/151587191 A Sublime Madness in the Soul] (excerpt)
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Category:21st-century American artists
Category:Artists from Los Angeles
Category:21st-century American women artists
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