Mixed Media Works by
Suzanne Klotz-Reilly

Exhibition Statement

Suzanne Klotz lives and works in Sedona, Arizona. Her work can best be described as multi-layered visual experiences using a variety of media and techniques. She combines simple childlike drawings and constructions with found objects and miscellaneous accessories like lace, beads, wood, hair, and an assortment of other materials.

Typically, in Klotz’s two dimensional work, perspective is flattened and reality is twisted into visions of a private world where she explores themes of human relationship, life, death, and spirituality. Some of her work appears whimsical while others are satirical and ironical. She rarely stops at the end of a canvas extending the painting or mixed media work into the frame itself.

In sculptural pieces, she combines irony with superficial symbols as in “Junior High Romance”. Klotz also produces furniture, functional art works that hold little worlds of their own. Pieces such as “Beach Dining Table” reveals a microcosm of Klotz’s reality, a small private universe unfolding.

She has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Her work is represented in major collections such as the Smithsonian Institute, Phoenix Art Museum, Scripps College, and the Minnesota Museum of Art. Her work has been included in over one hundred competitive and invitational museum exhibitions since 1972.

Artist Bio

Suzanne Klotz has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards including three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Her work defies classification. She combines a variety of media to express themes on love, death, birth, life, and spirituality all intertwined with complex decorative surfaces. She lives and works in Sedona, Arizona.

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