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Suzanna Schlemm majored in Communications. Painting came later in her life. In 2001, after 10 years working in the advertising industry, she moved to NYC to study painting and begin what would become her true career. Suzanna enrolled as a full-time student at The New York Studio School, where she earned multiple scholarships. In addition, she also studied at the School of Visual Arts, the New York Art Students League and Parsons School of Design. In 2006, back in her home town Rio de Janeiro, she was selected by the San Francisco International Museum of Women to participate in the Imagining Ourselves Project with a self-portrait. And in 2007, she had her first show in Rio's esteemed "Parque das Ruinas" museum.
Suzanna's work examines the strange familiarity of ordinary moments. It is the restless discomfort exhaling from the banality of quotidian life. Her paintings are like snapshots, fragments of trivial events ignored through the distracting passing of days, like the simple act of opening the drapes to look out the window... The act unveiling this intermediate layer, as Alberti said, is what make the passage between "the eye and the thing seen." And what else has art searched, at least since the departure of the Gods, besides revealing the illusory familiarity of the world?
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