Susan P. Peulz
Susan P. Peulz
Susan Puelz was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska where she continues to reside. She received her B.F.A. in Art from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1980 and her M.F.A. in painting from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1984.
From 1984 to 2004 Ms. Puelz was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art in watercolor, art history, design and drawing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has also been Visiting Artist at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
She has had over twenty one-person shows including Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph Michigan, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska, and Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.
Since 1985 Ms. Puelz has participated in thirty-five group exhibitions. They include “Midwest Landscape as Subject and Symbol,” Sioux City Art Center, “100 years of Nebraska Women Artists, 1890-1990,” Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska, “Living Artists of Nebraska, Warsaw Poland, “Taos National Watercolor Honors Exhibition,” Taos, New Mexico, and Watercolor U.S.A. exhibitions 1997, 2003, 2008, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri.
Major awards have come from Watercolor U.S.A., Art Quest, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, Taos National Honors Exhibition, National Watercolor Society, Museum of Nebraska Art, Cooper Foundation, and the Association of Nebraska Art Clubs.
Her work is featured in “Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie,” Joni L. Kinsey. She illustrated the covers for “Refuge at DeSoto Bend” Salmon Publishing, and “Natural Bridge: A Journal for Contemporary Literature,” University of Missouri.
Recently, Jo Anderson was returning a painting and it was wrapped in a beige comforter. She wanted to leave the comforter with me and I told her to take it back because “Susan doesn’t do Beige.”
This has become a metaphor for my paintings this year.
When I began using Landscape as subject it was important that the work had a sense of place, and color was a secondary consideration.
It was just this year that I realized that the subject of my work is color, and the Landforms are a vehicle for the composition and design of the page, not necessarily the subject of the painting.
Do they still have a sense of place? I believe so. Are they described as Landscapes? Probably. Are they about color? Absolutely...yes!
