Susanne Crane
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Susanne Maria Crane, born in 1966 in Frankfurt, Germany, is an American artist. She was the founder/owner of the cooperative art store The Art Underground from 1995 to 2000 which was located at 50th and Bryant in Minneapolis, MN. She is known for her works in montage format, imbued with symbolic mythological images of spiritual surrealism.[citation needed]
Susanne's acrylic paintings often incorporate clay, metal and other mixed media. She uses several symbols which evoke dream states, or the human subconscious. Doorways, caves, paths, creatures real and imagined, and character archetypes like Mother Nature/Green Man, as well as historical figures, show up regularly in her explorations of the psyche and the collective symbolic lexicon.[citation needed]
Known for her bright color palette and smooth paint strokes, Crane's ethereal portraits and landscapes communicate importance on a symbolic level.[citation needed] She has claimed to be informed by the work of Carl Jung, her own study of dreams and how they relate to "human consciousness."[citation needed]
[edit] Minnesota artist
Susanne Crane had exhibited her work more than 15 times in Minnesota, including a "Charlie Brown Around Town" statue in 2001 in St. Paul before year 2002.[1]
She is currently working to restore a historic Opera House/Art Building, as well as creating other new venues, in Southeastern Minnesota. She teaches art at several locations in Minneapolis.
