Welcome to Susan Rankaitis
Susan Rankaitis is a visual artist who has had an abiding interest in contemporary science and the relationships between art and science. She combines photography, painting, drawing and, at times, sculpture into works that are experimental in nature and are most often made on paper. Her artistic influences have included artists who stretched both the history of painting or photography and ideas about the abstract; Primary among those are Song Dynasty artists of the thirteenth century, Turner, Moholy-Nagy, Pollock, de Kooning, Rauschenberg and contemporary German artists, particularly Polke. For Susan Rankaitis, the area between painting and photography is not a line drawn in the sand but a fluid space in which to push aspects of history, culture, representation and materials. With more than a decade long interest in neuroscience research which involves emotion and consciousness, she is currently working on the Interoception series using abstracted imagery of brain architecture.