Lynden Gallery

SUSAN DAVITTI DARLING collage watercolor resume
ARTIST STATEMENT "I am passionate about collage. I find every aspect of it appealing. There is rummaging and collecting. Just looking for and finding things to use in the process is like a wonderful scavenger hunt. There is a feel to collage: papers of different weights, surface qualities and textures. Feathers, bottle caps, and stones offer their own delights. Collage is full of play for me. The subject of my work could easily be the color of the sky I saw the other day or the shape of a leaf that I picked up while walking. Many times I let the materials dictate what I do with them. I feel my collages are like poetry or music where I work towards an emotional response to pure color, shape, pattern form and texture." S. Davitti Darling 2005
RESUME EDUCATION Roger Williams University , Bristol , Rhode Island , 1976 - Associates Degree Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Marietta , Pennsylvania Millersville University , Millersville , Pennsylvania , 1991 - BA in Commercial Art EXHIBITS 2005 Fragments, with Susan Ludwig, Lynden Gallery, Elizabethtown, PA Doshi Exhibit at Whitaker Center of the Arts and Science, “To the Edge of the World” 2004 Group Doshi of the Susquehanna Art Museum “Yin-Yang”, Penn State Harrisburg Around Red (8 Originals) Exhibit, Central Market Art Gallery Rottler Award Exhibit York Art Association, York PA 2003 Seitz Gallery, Art walk Harrisburg PA Group Doshi of the Susaquehanna Art Museum Fall, Penn State Harrisburg 2002 In and out of the Box, 8 Oringinals' Exhibit YAA York Art Association, York PA 2001 East Meets West , Gypsy Hill Gallery, Lititz , PA 2000 Four Color Separates, Lancaster County Art Association Central Market Art Gallery , Summer Showcase 1999 Elizabethtown College , Spring Festival of the Arts 1998 Mulberry Art Studio, A-musing exhibit 1997 York Art Association, York , PA YorkArts, Our Vanishing Landscape 1996 Philadelphia Museum of Art , Philadelphia , PA , Selected works Sales and Rental Gallery 1995 Harrisburg Area Community College , Lebanon Campus , Lebanon PA Elizabethtown College , Shiner/Darling Exhibit, Hess Gallery 1994 Lancaster County Art Association, Smith/Darling Exhibit, Lancaster PA AWARDS 2005 2nd Place, Lancaster County Art Association, Surprise! Exhibition 2004 Honorable Mention, York Art Association Winter Member show Second Place , Art Association of Harrisburg , Gardens and Greenery: A Celebration of the City Beautiful Movement 2003 Judges' Choice Award, Landis Woods Outdoor Art Show Rottler Award for Visual Excellence, York Art Association Honorable Mention, York Art Association, Spring Member Show 2002 First Place , York Art Association, Winter Member Show Elizabethtown College , 9/11 exhibit, Purchase Award Honorable Mention, Regional Art Exhibit, Mechanicsburg , PA 2001 Third Place , Lancaster County Impressions Exhibit, LCAA First Place , Blue Exhibit, Lancaster County Art Association 2000 Honorable Mention, Rottler Exhibition, York Art Association 1999 Judges Choice, Lancaster County Art Association Annual Outdoor Exhibition Honorable Mention, Garden Exhibition, LCAA 1997 Second Place , Pastels, Juried Awards Exhibition, York Art Association First Place, Lancaster Impressions Exhibition, LCAA 1996 Honorable Mention, Winter Membership exhibition, York Art Association Honorable Mention, Spring Membership show, York Art Association Third Place , Sentimental Journey Exhibition, Lancaster County Art Association 1994 Judges Choice, Lititz Outdoor Art Show, Lititz PA Annual Juried Spring Art Exhibit, Best of Show and Purchase Award, Elizabethtown College Fall Member Exhibit, LCAA, Lancaster , PA , First Place 1993 First Place, Annual Juried Spring Art Exhibit, Elizabethtown College , Elizabethtown , PA PUBLISHED WORKS 1998 Women Artists Date book, Syracuse Cultural Workers, Syracuse , NY 1999 Women Artists' Date book, Syracuse Cultural Workers, Syracuse , NY 2000 Nissley Vineyards, Created artwork for holiday wine labels 2003 Woman Artist's Date book, Syracuse Cultural Workers, Syracuse , NY 2003 Courage Cards, Minneapolis , MN 2003 Nissley Vineyards, Fruit Wine Labels PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
PRESS RELEASES click on entry to read FRAGMENTS: Susan Davitti Darling, Collage, and Susan Ludwig, Shardwork - Lynden Gallery, August 2005