Based in La Grande, Oregon, Susan Murrell creates work as a meditation on passageways, life transitions and the constancy of matter. Working intuitively in abstraction, she focuses on the universal and personal process of experiencing presence through absence. It strikes her that now with our expanding perspective of the world, we feel a kinship with microscopic images and aerial views of planets. In this context, she considers herself a landscape painter. She exhibited Sift/Shift at the Whatcom in 2023. Cracked Sphere #1 is a watercolor, acrylic, and vinyl painting on paper.
