Suzanne Crocker’s paintings intrigue viewers with her vibrant houses set beneath shocking skies of greens, pinks, and offset blues. Her electric landscapes painted atop florescent red washes of paint, radiate with warmth and light. Her subject matter on the contrary, is paired down. Simple geometric structures make up her solitary homes surrounded by color fields of brown, pink or green grasses. Any detail beyond her central subject matter is subtle – such as the faint indications of fences emerging from soft outlines amidst bold blocks of color.  The influence of her studies with Master colorist Wolf Kahn is evidenced by Crocker’s fanciful interpretation of color. Although her houses appear as solitary forms surrounded only by fields and sky- these outrageous colors are anything but quiet.  Luminating from an ellusive light source, the works take on a spiritual atmostphere. 

b. 1965  Cambridge, MA

Exhibitions

2008  Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA;  Jules Place, Radiance, three-person exhibition, Boston, MA; Powers Gallery, Explorations, solo exhibition, Acton, MA; Gardner Colby Gallery, New Work, solo exhibition, Edgartown, MA.  2007  Bennett Street Gallery, Female Colorists, three-person exhibition, Atlanta, GA; Woodstock Folk Art, Prints & Antiquities, Suzanne Crocker--New Works, solo exhibition, Woodstock, VT.   2006 Woodstock Folk Art, Prints & Antiquities, Suzanne Crocker-- Alive With Color, solo exhibition, Woodstock, VT.; Powers Gallery, Acton, MA;  Gardner Colby, Edgartown (Martha’s Vineyard), MA. 2005 Copley Society of Art, Escapes -- Suzanne Crocker, solo exhibition, Boston, MA; 25th Anniversary Designer Show House, This Old House (the PBS Television show), Carlisle, MA;  Woodstock Folk Art, Prints & Antiquities, Woodstock, VT; Powers Gallery, Acton, MA; The Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA. 2004 The Copley Society of Art, Suzanne Crocker: Oil Paintings, solo exhibition, Boston, MA; Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island (The Hamptons), NY; Powers Gallery, Acton, MA. 2003 The River Gallery, two-person exhibition, Ipswich, MA; North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, MA; MPG (Michael Price Gallery), Boston, MA;  Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island (The Hamptons), NY. 2002 Mingo Gallery, two-person exhibition, Beverly, MA; The River Gallery, Ipswich, MA; North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, MA

Education

2006 Great River Arts Institute, Abstract Painting with Doug Trump, Bellows Falls, VT.  2005 Fine Arts Work Center, Painting with Cynthia Packard, Provincetown, MA. 2004 Cynthia Packard Studio, Painting, Provincetown, MA.  2003 Truro Center For the Arts, Painting with Cynthia Packard , Truro, MA; Great River Arts Institute, Stuart Shils Master Class, Walpole, NH.  2002  Great River Arts Institute, Wolf Kahn Master Class, Walpole, NH; Vermont Studio Center, Artist residency with Wolf Kahn, Johnson, VT; Arts Pro Tem, Landscape Painting with Susan Hambleton, Hancock, NH. 2001 Arts Pro Tem, Painting with Susan Hambleton, Hancock, NH; The National Academy of Design School of Fine Art, Wolf Kahn: Using Pastels, New York, NY. 2000 The National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Painting From Life, New York, NY. 1987 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA- BA, History of Art, Graduated cum laude.