Susan Danko exhibition - Night Forest

Opening reception Friday, August 5th, 5-8 pm

Open hours 7/16, 7/30, 8/6, 8/20, 8/27 12- 4pm

and by appointment July 12 - August 28th

Deep Dive Art Projects is pleased to present new work by Susan Danko in the Viewing Room at the Deep End. Danko's multi-layered paintings portray a world where nature is at once thriving and calming. Her installation at the Deep End is site-specific, and draws on the idea of an energetic interchange between each image.

"During the pandemic, I got in the habit of sitting on my deck at night thinking about life and death. I found solace in watching the sunset and observing nature’s transition to darkness. I was inspired by the color of the summer sky at night and found it interesting to look at a familiar landscape in such a different state," says Danko. These nighttime observances led to her creation of the Night Forest Series. "This series is a meditation on darkness as a part of life. In nature, the dark isn’t necessarily sinister or somber for its lack of light, it is simply a beautiful, deeper hue. In making this work, I contemplated the meanings and reasons for changes and challenges in life as I navigated moving away from trying times towards new beginnings."

Night Forest is being exhibited concurrently with the CAN Triennial in the Waterloo Arts District.

Susan Danko is a Cleveland-based artist with an extensive exhibition history and is included in many corporate and private collections. She has been creating and exhibiting her artwork since receiving a BFA in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1998. As a student she received honors including the Joseph McCullough painting award, and the Ellen Battell Stoeckel painting fellowship from Yale University. Susan received Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards in 2021 and 2013, and was awarded a Fine Arts Work Center / OAC collaborative residency in Provincetown, Massachusetts during the summer of 2013. She served as a visual artist in residence at Shenandoah National Park in the summer of 2020.

Danko has shown her work in solo, group and invitational exhibitions at a variety of venues including the Cleveland Botanical Gardens, the Butler Museum of American Art, MOCA Cleveland, The Moss Art Center at Virginia Tech, and SPACES gallery in Cleveland. Publications include the CAN Journal, 2014; Studio Visit Magazine, 2012; and Angle Magazine in 2006. Susan’s paintings are included in prominent art collections including the Cleveland Clinic, the Ohio Arts Council, Nordson Corporation, and The United States Embassy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She is represented by Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland.