Susanna Battin
Susanna Battin is an artist geographer who explores the influence of images on human relationships with land.
Category: Artist/Individual
Discipline: Visual arts
Program Affiliations: Arts Foundation Grantees
About Susanna Battin
Susanna Battin is an artist geographer who explores the influence of images on human relationships with land. She unpacks how western practices of painting, photography, and cinema can serve to colonize or decolonize spaces. Her practice involves moving-image, cartography, painting, and reading legal documents and nature poems. Battin has exhibited at Armory Center for the Arts, MOCA Tucson, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, and Human Resources. She teaches art at Tohono O’odham Community College and co-runs SNAG (School of New Art Geographies) with her partner in Southern Arizona.
https://susbatt.com
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA. Jul 21—Dec 10, 2023
Leave No Trace
Leave No Trace is a project by artist Susanna Battin that investigates the colors of paint the Bureau of Land Management uses to camouflage manmade structures in the land. Interested in the irony and humor of hiding things in plain sight, Battin paints on location to edit, or ‘visually remediate’ the landscape.
Graphite and colored pencil, 22x30", 03/2021
Thrift Store Landscape $50 Each
The thrift store is an essential stop for goods to recirculate in our consumer waste stream. In this series I photograph American landscape paintings on thrift store shelves. I draw them in their relocated ambiance from my photographs.
Acrylic paint on archival inkjet print, series of (6) 3.5x3.5", 11/2021
Leave No Trace, Painted Series (Carlsbad Canyon. Unnamed Wash that Flows into the Santa Cruz River, Tucson AZ)
I document myself painting illegally dumped bulky items in the colors the Bureau of Land Management recommends to camouflage manmade structures on public land. 'Carlsbad Canyon' is the name of one of nine muted earth tones from this paint palette.
