SUE BOYDSTON
Sue Boydston's academic and professional work has taken her throughout the United
States, Europe and Asia. An honor graduate of Old Dominion University, she has
done postgraduate work at George Washington University and the University of Hawaii.
Sue has been a visual arts teacher in the Norfolk, Washington D.C., Chicago, Honolulu
and the Metro Nashville public school systems.
The artist's studio work includes watercolors, gouaches, acrylics and oils on
paper and canvas, monoprints, collages and papier mache masks. Her large abstract
pieces are developed from collages, drawings and small paintings made in a stream
of consciousness fashion inspired by a specific place or event. An idea may be
dormant in sketch form, slowly translating itself into appropriate size and medium.
Hard edges invade amorphous space to become symbols for environmental elements,
both natural and synthetic. Movement within each design becomes the vehicle for
emotional content. Her strong use of color can be attributed to nine years as
a working artist in Hawaii, where light, shadows and color are supremely intense.
An award winning artist, Sue Boydston has been selected for inclusion in numerous
regional juried exhibitions. Principal among these were the Virginia Museum of
Art Athenaeum Biennial, judged by Robert Hughes of Time Magazine, and Artists
of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Art, judged by James T. Demetrion, curator of the
Hirschorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Her awards include
several Best In Show and Grumbacher medals and the prestigious Jean Charlot Foundation
Award. Sue has shown her work in numerous one person and group shows in Washington
D.C., Honolulu HI, Chicago IL, Nashville TN, Norfolk VA, and Trenton NJ. Her paintings
appear in private and corporate collections nationwide.