About

I use drawing, painting, and printmaking processes to create visual narratives that are drawn from memory and personal experiences to depict imagined environments, contemporary urban setting, and domestic spaces where a sentiment of solitude and nostalgia is sometimes evoked.

My recent paintings are inspired by reflections of my childhood in order to draw comparisons between the Caribbean Island where I grew up, and the city where I currently live. Informed by personal feelings and impressions of past and present events, I developed imagery to invent an alternative world that’s geometric inspired and dreamlike.

Some of my paintings resemble blueprint-like diagrams representing the imagined locations with fragmented structures that at times appear suspended in space; Some are populated by floating windows grouped together like systems of stars; Others have translucent windows that show reflected light, and evoke interiors where domestic elements are vaguely visible, and ghost-like figures are implied.

Susana Valera Read (Susana Valera-Pukit), is a Dominican born visual artist based in NY. She received an M.F.A. from Lehman College, a B.F.A. from Parsons-The New School, and an A.A.S from Altos de Chavón School of Design.

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suvalera08@gmail.com
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