Susan McLaughlin Biography Susan McLaughlin is recognized for her hauntingly imaginative and energetic paintings depicting harmony between humanity and nature. Professor John Torreano, former Director of NYU’s Painting Program, wrote: Ms. McLaughlin’s balance between a surrealist pattern of detailed images and the under image “witness” suggests a mashup of the 16c Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo and the 20c. Swiss painter Rene Magritte. In his review of Ms. McLaughlin’s paintings, the well-known New York curator Ethan Karp wrote, “Ms McLaughlin's paintings appear to be wonderfully obsessive and subversive as well as beautifully made.” Ms. McLaughlin’s work has been exhibited in museums including the Monmouth Museum, NJ; The Bonnet House Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL; and The Arnot Art Museum, NY. Her gallery exhibits include Aqua Art Miami; ArtExpo, New York; Art Basel Miami, FL; 3rd Biennial of Contemporary Art of Argentina; Municipal Gallery, Cultural Arts Commission of Newtown, CT; Martha Gault Gallery, PA; Armstrong Gallery, GA; The Guild 545, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Dacia Gallery, New York, NY; and 13 Saatchi Artists (online). She was an Artist in Residence at Fat Village Center for the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL. She is an exhibiting member of the Society of Creative Artists of Newtown, CT as well as the Broward Art Guild in Fort Lauderdale, FL, where she has won many Best in Show awards. Ms. McLaughlin’s art hangs in many private collections, including Calvin Klein NY, BBDO Chicago and FCB Chicago. \t McLaughlin was born in Manhattan and has painted and lived there for most of her life. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Parsons School of Design and a Master of Arts in Studio Art degree from New York University. She maintains studios in Lauderdale by the Sea, FL and Newtown, CT. The varied locations at which she paints have had a positive influence on her artistic vision. She has been especially influenced by her wooded, lakeside environment in Newtown, where she is able to study the natural world around her. Artist’s Statement As a narrative painter, I am an explorer, uncovering, recording and rearranging the beauty of the natural world, as well as the beauty of human beings. A romantic at heart and surrealist of hand, I combine elements of reality and fantasy in ways that shed a new light on the interrelationships between humans and the natural world. Sometimes the division is clear; on other occasions the two worlds melt into one. This symbiosis makes the finished work even more compelling than either of its constituents alone.