Susan Stover is an interdisciplinary artist who recently relocated from Northern California’s Wine Country to the Hudson Valley in New York. Her work reflects a deep engagement with the creative process, the patterns of daily life, and themes of repetition, meditation, and ritual. Often weaving historical and cultural references into a personal, contemporary context, her art explores the intersection of past and present. Susan earned her BFA from Miami University in Ohio and her MFA from California College of the Arts in Oakland, specializing in textiles and painting. Susan has taught at UC Davis, worked at California College of the Arts, and spent a decade with Jacquard Products, a textile paint and dye manufacturer. Her paintings are included in numerous private and corporate collections, and she has led workshops around the world, including in Australia, India, Italy, France, Mexico, and across the U.S.
Susan utilizes traditional fiber techniques and surface design patterns to transform humble materials such as cardboard, wood, paint, and thread into complex works of art. Once assembled by the repetitive, meditative process of hand-sewing, her work creates playful abstract compositions that function on a micro and macro scale. Drawing inspiration from Minimalist grids, the Pattern & Decoration movement, and Supports/Surfaces, her pieces blur the boundaries between painting, textiles, and sculpture. Often reminiscent of quilts, maps, or networks, her work examines the human desire to find, create, and interpret patterns, as well as the impulse to mark and adorn.