Susan Rankaitis

American painter

Susan Rankaitis
Born	1949 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Education	BFA, 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 for	Painting, Photography, Drawing
Movement	Abstract 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]

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

MFA, Painting and Photography, University of Southern California, School of Fine Arts (1977)^[7]
BFA, Painting, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, School of Art and Design (1971)^[7]

Solo exhibitions

2017: Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present, Los Angeles County Museum of Art^[8]
2017: Grey Matters, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY^[9]
2007: Limbicwork, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY^[10]
2005: Limbicwork: Pertaining to the Nature of Borders, Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania (outdoor)^[10]
2000: Susan Rankaitis: Drawn from Science, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA^[11]
1998: Science as Art: Susan Rankaitis, Indiana University/Purdue University Cultural Arts Gallery, Indianapolis, IN^[10]
1997: Gold Science Ghost Drawings, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY^[10]
1994: Susan Rankaitis: Abstracting Science, Nature and Technology, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL^[10]
1992: DNA Series: Susan Rankaitis, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA^[10]
1991: Susan Rankaitis: Encounters, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ^[10]
1983: Susan Rankaitis: Inherent in Flight, Los Angeles County Museum of Art^[12]
1983: Susan Rankaitis: L'Avion, L'Avion, International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY^[13]

Academic career

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

Public collections

Art Institute of Chicago^[15]
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL^[16]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art^[17]
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University^[18]
Princeton University Art Museum^[19]
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art^[20]
Smithsonian American Art Museum^[7]
University of Maryland, Adele H. Stamp Student Union, Contemporary Art Purchasing Program^[21]
Minneapolis Institute of Arts^[22]

References

^ ^a ^b "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
^ Young, Cynthia (July–August 1998). "Rochester's women and photography conference". Afterimage. 26 (1): 2 – via Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson).
^ Scripps College (2016-03-09), Spotlight on Faculty: Susan Rankaitis, retrieved 2017-03-28
^ "Search Collection Results | The Art Institute of Chicago". www.artic.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
^ "SUSAN RANKAITIS". Design X Demo. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
^ UCLA (2009-09-16), Aperture Panel: Abstraction in Photography, Hammer Museum (52:18-54:00), retrieved 2017-03-28
^ ^a ^b ^c "Susan Rankaitis entry, Smithsonian American Art Museum".
^ "Farrah Karapetian | Current & Upcoming Activity".
^ "Susan Rankaitis: Grey Matters | Artsy".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Susan Rankaitis bio, Robert Mann Gallery".
^ KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER (2000-06-14). "Poetic Lyricism, Poise in the Art of 'Science'". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
^ "Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition records, 1973-2003 EXH.001.001". www.oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
^ "Design X Demo | Selected-Solo-Exhibitions | 1". Design X Demo. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
^ "Academics | Faculty Profile". www.scrippscollege.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
^ "Rankaitis, Susan | The Art Institute of Chicago". www.artic.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
^ "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
^ "Susan Rankaitis | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
^ "Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University". cantorcollections.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
^ "Susan Rankaitis | Princeton University Art Museum". artmuseum.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
^ "Susan Rankaitis". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
^ "Student Affairs Giving - Contemporary Art Purchasing Program". www.sagiving.umd.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
^ "Chin/The Arousing (Shock Thunder), Susan Anne Rankaitis ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2017-03-29.