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SUSAN
DUE PEARCY
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is a transcendentalist in the tradition of Henry David
Thoreau, who believed in the unity of man and nature
and the primacy of the spiritual over the material.”
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Krystyna
Wasserman, exhibit curator,
the National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Susan Due Pearcy was raised in St. Louis, MO and has lived
in Massachusetts, New York, Georgia, California and Maryland.
She studied art at Southeast Missouri State University and
graduated from New York University with a B.S. in Painting,
Graphics and Sculpture. She had further studies in printmaking
at the Art Students League in New York City, Fort Mason
Art Center and the Graphic Arts Workshop in San Francisco,
plus numerous continuing education workshops.
Pearcy's
art is held in the permanent collection of the Pushkin Museum,
Russia, the Chemalier Museum, France, the National Gallery
of Art, Washington, DC, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Museum of Women
in the Arts, National Institutes of Health, Library of Congress,
Indonesian Embassy and others.
Her
work has been exhibited from New York to Alaska and from
Brussels to Brazil. She has received two MD State Arts Council
grants, two CA State Arts Council grants, and Outreach Grants
from Montgomery County, MD to work in the community. She
is a weekly volunteer at the National Institutes of Health
where she promotes art projects with hospitalized children.
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