A native New Yorker, Susan Hamilton Meier has been creating and exhibiting in New York City for over 20 years. Her work is in the collections of Saatchi & Saatchi, Pfizer, and the New York Stock Exchange and has been exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History. Susan was selected as a featured artist by Art & Science Collaborations and a juried artist by Soho20 Gallery in Chelsea and by the Montgomery Center for the Arts.
As an undergraduate art history major at Dartmouth College and wrote her thesis on medieval Italian altarpieces. She also became enchanted by the 20th century minimalists and post-minimalists. Susan completed an artist residency at the School of Visual Arts and is an ongoing student at the Fred de Vos Wax Workshop.
“There are a handful of female artists who have deeply inspired my work, and foremost among them is Anni Albers. Over the course of 2 years, traveled to the pre-Columbian archaeological sites across Mexico that inspired her work. I had also heard that Anni used to un-weave and re-weave the Andean textiles she collected so that she could understand them more fully. I began to “unweave” her drawings, recreating each of the drawings from her "Notebook 1970-1980" square by square, day by day. Once they revealed their secrets to me, I created a series of related paintings, drawings, and assemblages. At its core, my work is about the interplay of order and chaos, pattern and randomness, exploring the mathematical blueprint that governs organic forms.”