Pictured: Star Information - Colored pencil on paper - 9" x 12" - 2026 SUZANNE KIGGINS: ARTIST STATEMENT I am a self-taught artist based in Brooklyn, NY and sometimes, Hudson, NY, currently working primarily with acrylic on paper, wood panel, and canvas, and drawing with markers and colored pencils. Prior to making art full time, I had a 20 year career in educational simulation design. I paint and draw to express the human experience. I once read, in a Louise Erdrich novel, that the root of the word "sincere" is "sine cera," meaning "without wax." This has always stayed with me — it gets at what I am trying to do when I work. I attempt to get underneath the "wax" of society, of modern life, without the light pollution of the conscious mind, pretense, distraction, and ego; in order to capture somehow what we are all experiencing but don't really have words for. I find that employing symbolism and metaphor are the strai...

  Pictured: The Seed Bride - Acrylic on canvas - 30” x 40” - 2026   SUZANNE KIGGINS: RESUME 2026 Summer Edition Corners Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2026 Maintain Frame Control 14BC Gallery, New York, NY 2025 The Other Art Fair  Brooklyn, NY 2025 Upstate Art Weekend The Barn On Berme, Kerhonkson, NY 2025 Make. Believe. Material as Spell The Stairwell Space, Bridgeport, CT 2025 Upland Art Residency, VT 2025 The Circus Of Being (2-person show with Sylvia Taylor) Corners Gallery, Ithaca, NY 2023 & 2024 Solo Shows One River Art School, Montclair, NJ & Millburn, NJ 2024 Among Friends 4 Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY 2023-2025 Group Shows Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO & Bozeman, MT 2023 Art Taipei, Group Booth, represented by Carrie Chen Gallery Taipei, Taiwan 2023 Upstate Art Weekend The Barn On Berme, Kerhonkson, NY 2022 HARMONICA (Solo) Carrie Chen Gallery, Great Barrington, MA 2022 Wunder....A Summer Adventure ArtPort Kingston, Kingston, NY 2022 Among Friends 3 ...

 

 

My artistic process begins as a dialogue with materials. I am collecting and salvaging the discarded detritus of urban life, such as weathered, wrinkled and torn fragments carelessly thrown away on sidewalks; or flattened, rusted metal odds and ends embedded in the pavement. These objects all have their own histories, which become fused together through the process of assembling them into works of art.  The vast collection of flotsam and fragments I have gathered over the years includes disused cultural artifacts, archival and library rejects, old letters and books, and random papers and ephemera.  In recent years, my work has also incorporated natural elements such as leaves, branches, sand and stones.  Fragments are a symptom of our torn and broken world, which seems to get more catastrophically torn apart every day. Though it is only one step toward mending the brokenness of our lives, perhaps the act of joining various disjointed elements of our splintered experience ...