Susan Rankaitis

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Susan Rankaitis
Born1949
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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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  3. ↑ Scripps College (2016-03-09), Spotlight on Faculty: Susan Rankaitis , retrieved 2017-03-28
  4. ↑ "Search Collection Results | The Art Institute of Chicago". www.artic.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  5. ↑ "SUSAN RANKAITIS". Design X Demo. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  6. ↑ UCLA (2009-09-16), Aperture Panel: Abstraction in Photography, Hammer Museum (52:18-54:00) , retrieved 2017-03-28
  7. 1 2 3 "Susan Rankaitis entry, Smithsonian American Art Museum".
  8. ↑ "Farrah Karapetian | Current & Upcoming Activity".
  9. ↑ "Susan Rankaitis: Grey Matters | Artsy".
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Susan Rankaitis bio, Robert Mann Gallery".
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  12. ↑ "Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition records, 1973-2003 EXH.001.001". www.oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  13. ↑ "Design X Demo | Selected-Solo-Exhibitions | 1". Design X Demo. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  14. ↑ "Academics | Faculty Profile". www.scrippscollege.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  15. ↑ "Rankaitis, Susan | The Art Institute of Chicago". www.artic.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  16. ↑ "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  17. ↑ "Susan Rankaitis | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  18. ↑ "Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University". cantorcollections.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  19. ↑ "Susan Rankaitis | Princeton University Art Museum". artmuseum.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  20. ↑ "Susan Rankaitis". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
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  22. ↑ "Chin/The Arousing (Shock Thunder), Susan Anne Rankaitis ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
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