Susan Stamm Evans

Art Brokerage: Susan Stamm Evans American Artist: Accurate and expressive, the figurative sculptures of Susan Stamm Evans convey a gentle beauty. Her indoor and outdoor bronze sculptures gracefully portray intimate moments, often of personal reflection. Stamm notes that I try to express the small gestures of quiet emotions, for it is in those private moments of introspection that we are the most connected to ourselves and akin to others. The work of connecting to others and to oneself underlies the thoughtful and intimate postures of her subjects. The Together series depicts the anticipation of touch between two pairs of lips that almost meet and notably demonstrates a kind of tenuous restraint in a relationship. Her Quietude works describe interactions of mutual support, where situated back to back, each figure sustains the other. The singular figures in this series project a range of qualities, at times fragile other times strong, but always naturally graceful and intent. A recent exploration into fracturing and editing the features of her portraits creates greater complexity as to what these heads communicate. They lack specificity, eyes, hair, and ears. Stamm is intrigued by the silence this cropping elicits, stating that Information is withheld, and there is an engaging mystery in that. Susan received her BA from the University of New Mexico and MA in sculptural ceramics from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Her work has been represented in numerous exhibitions and with galleries throughout the mid- and southwest United States, including, the Museum of Albuquerque, The New Mexico Governor's Gallery in Santa Fe, and the Craft Alliance in St. Louis, Missouri. Listings wanted.