Susan Rankaitis

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Susan Rankaitis
Born1949
EducationBFA, Painting and Photography, University of Southern California, School of Fine Arts (1971), MFA Painting, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, School of Art and Design (1977)
Known forPainting, Photography, Drawing
MovementAbstract Photography, Conceptual Photography
Website http://www.susanrankaitis.com/

Susan Rankaitis (born 1949) is an American multimedia artist working primarily in painting, photography and drawing. Rankaitis began her career in the 1970s as an abstract painter. [1] [2] Visiting the Art Institute of Chicago while in graduate school, she had a transformative encounter with the photograms of the artist László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), whose abstract works of the 1920s and 1940s she saw as "both painting and photography." [3] [4] Rankaitis began to develop her own experimental methods for producing abstract and conceptual artworks related both to painting and photography. [1] [5]

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Rankaitis draws on science in her work—particularly ideas generated through research in the fields of biology and neuroscience and she collaborates regularly with scientists on interdisciplinary projects. [6]

Education

Solo exhibitions

Academic career

Rankaitis has served since 1990 as Fletcher Jones Chair in Studio Art at Scripps College in Claremont, California. [14]

Public collections

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