Bio
Born: Columbus, Ohio Education: MFA in Sculpture (5.09), San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California. BFA in Sculpture (cum laude, Dean’s list), University of Cincinnati’s (D.A.A.P.), Cincinnati, Ohio. BA in Sociology/Criminology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Selected group exhibitions: Vernissage, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California 2009;Locality, Mission Art Center, San Francisco 2009; If I Were Skin and Bone…Would You Still Remember Me?, Live Art Gallery, San Francisco, 2008; With Reservations…, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco 2008; Continuing MFA Exhibition, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco 2008; The Forecastle Festival, The Riverfront Belvedere, Louisville, Kentucky 2008; S.O.S. Art 2008, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati 2008; de Young Last Call, de Young Museum, San Francisco 2008; Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young, San Francisco 2008; Projects: The Museum: Explorations, Investigations and Interventions, Legion of Honor, San Francisco 2008; City Traffic, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, 2007; Concept & Form, Marx Gallery, Covington, Kentucky 2007; Marx du Femme: An Exhibition of Female Artists, Marx Gallery, Covington 2007; The Art of Deconstruction, Synaesthesia Gallery, Cincinnati 2006; S.O.S. Art Retrospective: Selections, 2003-2005, University Galleries on Sycamore, Cincinnati 2006; Art and Strategy, XOMA Gallery, Cincinnati 2006.
About Me...
I am Suzanne Kehr...I don't like talking about myself, I have a habit of explaining the opposite of what I mean at times...this does not mean I am silent. I rant and make waves...or try to per se...I am an Artist and I create things for people to look at that seem the aim ironically is to actually reveal aspects of myself or my take on things. It easier to throw it out there visually perhaps rather than for any one to rely on me to explain the world out for them...which I don't think anyone could successfully do...so it is my perspective..Like everything, it is all subjective. I have come to favor metal, and unfortunately work very large for being such a petite person (paid for it by getting a hernia that normally the chivalrous men get..yeah anyway). If you ran into me right out of the studio, you might think I have carried the 'tomboy' girl thing into adulthood. I have cuts, scratches and bruises normally from this..with the occasionally black dirt smear mark like I came out of a coal mine, or powdered like I came out of some sort of blast. I can clean up ok, when I want to...I think..maybe.. Yes, I weld and use all sorts of tools... I work with steel, bronze, wood, assemblage, casings, Bondo, resin... whatever I can figure to manipulate....Most my work is Three Dimensional and carries some sort of conceptual idea.
I was interested in art at a young age all the way through high school. I began taking classes at MiamiUniversity as an art major with an emphasis initially in painting and drawing. Somewhere I came upon a tangent and switched my major to sociology with a criminology emphasis. I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. When I had graduated I knew I had graduated with the wrong degree. I made the decision to return to complete my Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (D.A.A.P.). Caught in pre-requisite politics, I was unable to take any advanced painting or drawing classes but was allowed to take sculpture. I was so fascinated with the scope sculpture had to offer, I declared my concentration in 3D. While at D.A.A.P. I was a co-founder of the Art Installation Group five-some 'Scatterbrain' composed of members Bekka Sage, Elizabeth Otten, Kristin Rose, Mallory Feltz and Myself. Scatterbrain is an Art Installation Collective, and our work is a direct response to the socio-political and cultural climate in which our environment has created. I graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture from UC. In 2007, I was accepted into the San Francisco Art Institute’s (SFAI) MFA program for sculpture. My graduation date is May 2009.