About Susie
Baltimore City
Susie Brandt is a Baltimore-based visual artist who works across textile and other media to investigate time, utility, color, presence, absence and the myths of landscape and identity. Her artwork recasts lost and found material culture into textile objects, performances, and installations.
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Self Portrait Rugs
Human-scale rugs are patterned on tracings of the artist’s body. Each is woven or stitched or hooked using scraps of old woolen clothing and bedding, hobby craft yarn and/or pompoms. Initially inspired by an exhibition of carpets depicting flayed humans seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art these rugs merge the artist with the terrain.
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Pandemic Arms.jpgAll five arm portraits woven during the pandemic. Each is 7 inches wide. The longest is 30 1/2 inches. They are woven using tracings of the artist's arm. Photo is by Dan Meyers.
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Arm 1 (HERE).jpegTitle: Arm 1 (HERE) Date: 2020 Medium: hand woven cotton Dimensions: 31 inches x 7 1/2 inches
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Arm 2 (FIST).jpegTitle: Arm 2 (FIST) Date: 2020 Medium: hand woven cotton Dimensions: 29 ½ inches x 7 ¾ inches
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Arm 3 (VACCINE).jpegTitle: Arm 3 (VACCINE) Date: 2021 Medium: hand woven cotton Dimensions: 30 ¼ inches x 7 ½ inches
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Arm 4 (LIVE LONG AND PROSPER).jpegTitle: Arm 4 (LIVE LONG AND PROSPER) Date: 2021 Medium: hand woven cotton Dimensions: 29 ¼ inches x 7 ½ inches
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w.Dashed Down.jpgDashed Self-Portrait Rug/ Red Heart acrylic yarn; hand woven/ 2019/ 92 ½” x 17”/ Photo by Dan Meyers
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w.Roiled.jpgRoiled Self-Portrait Rug/ Repurposed wool fabric; hand hooked/ 2019/ 64” x 48”/ Photo Dan Meyers
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w.Shagged.jpgShagged Self-Portrait Rug/ Repurposed dotted fabric; machine stitched/ 2019/ 84” x 42”/ Photo: Dan Meyers
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Splayed.jpgSplayed Self Portrait Rug/ Pompoms, felt; hand stitched/ 2018/ 84” x 56”
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flayed on studio floor.jpgFlayed Self Portrait Rug/ Repurposed wool fabrics; hand stitched/ 2015/ Approx 6’ x 4’
Value Added
Series of 50 enlarged flags.
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ValueAdded#3Machine stitched found flag and lace.
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ValueAdded#20Machine stitched found flag and fabric
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ValueAdded#1Machine stitched found flag and fabric
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ValueAdded#13Enlarged American Flag. Machine Stitched
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ValueAdded#7Machine stitched found flag, fabric, and ribbon
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ValueAdded#8Machine stitched found flag and trimming
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ValueAdded#15Machine stitched found flag and fabric
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ValueAdded#5Machine stitched found flag and fabric
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ValueAdded#9Machine stitched found flag and fabric
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Value Added SeriesSeries of 50 enlarged flags.
Paradise
For this exhibition, a grand cache of Aloha shirts was cast to heaven and revamped into trees of life.
The Paradise series is dedicated to the memory of Peter Marvit.
The Paradise series is dedicated to the memory of Peter Marvit.
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Sifter2015 approx. 96 inches x 96 inches Aloha Shirt Bits netted in Safety Orange photo: Dan Meyers
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Sifter (detail)2015 approx. 96 inches x 96 inches Aloha Shirt Bits netted in Safety Orange photo: Dan Meyers
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Weeper2015 mixed aloha and fringe fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
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Twister2015 mixed aloha fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
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Twister (detail)2015 mixed aloha fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
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Blusher2015 mixed aloha fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
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Blusher (detail)2015 mixed aloha fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
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Buster2015 mixed aloha fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
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Buster (detail)2015 mixed aloha fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
Mine
Mine
Wool blankets and fabrics piled in the corner of a staircase landing. Affixed to the wall all the way to the ceiling in Albany International Airport, Albany, NY. Commissioned by the Albany International Airport's Art and Culture Program.
Wool blankets and fabrics piled in the corner of a staircase landing. Affixed to the wall all the way to the ceiling in Albany International Airport, Albany, NY. Commissioned by the Albany International Airport's Art and Culture Program.
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MineDetail looking up. Cut and stacked wool. 170" x 59" x 61" Installation in the observation deck stairwell ? Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
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MineView up stairwell toward observation deck. Cut and stacked wool. 170" x 59" x 61" Installation in the observation deck stairwell ? Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
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MineView up stairwell toward observation deck. Cut and stacked wool. 170" x 59" x 61" Installation in the observation deck stairwell ? Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
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Mineview from above Cut and stacked wool. 170" x 59" x 61" Installation in the observation deck stairwell ? Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
Stump Rugs and Postcards
While walking in Baltimore, I discovered the undulating patterns of wood grain left on stumps after trees were sawn down. They seemed to lend themselves to hooked rug designs. The completed hooked rugs - made from thrift store wool clothing and blankets - were returned to the stumps and photos were taken and made into souvenir postcard pictures.
In exhibition, the rugs are displayed scattered on the floor near a rack of post cards showing the rugs on their stumps of origin.
In exhibition, the rugs are displayed scattered on the floor near a rack of post cards showing the rugs on their stumps of origin.
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Ken Oaks RdPhoto of hand-hooked wool rug made into postcard.
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Belair RdPhoto of hand hooked wool rug made into postcard.
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Woodstock FieldPhoto of hand hooked wool rug made into postcard.
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Druid Park DrPhoto of hand hooked wool rug made into postcard.
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Kenly AvePhoto of hand hooked wool rug made into postcard.
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Five StumpsExhibition at Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington DE 2012
I<3CZ
In celebration of Valentines Day, Temple Gallery director, Robert Blackson, commissioned Susie Brandt to create an artwork for the Temple Gallery couch. Brandt’s response, I <3 CZ, is a tribute to the late fiber artist Claire Zeisler. Based in Chicago for much of her life, Zeisler (1903-1991) was internationally known for her draped forms of braided and knotted threads. These “Cousin It” like sculptures are the inspiration for Brandt’s commission. Made from 60 skeins of red Red Heart yarn and linen canvas, Brandt’s commission spilled over the gallery floor in a heartfelt tribute to Claire Zeisler.
All the Walks
Everyday I was in Baltimore in the year 2010 I took a walk and made a gps recording. These traces have been used to make maps of the city in various media.
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All the WalksGoogle Earth view of all the daily walks I made in Baltimore in 2010.
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All the WalksEveryday I was in Baltimore in the year 2010 I took a walk and made a gps recording. I am using this pattern to make a piece of lace.
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Baltimore Daily Walks in 2010/Red RickRackThis work uses the pattern of GPS tracks of walks taken every day I was in Baltimore from January 1 – December 31, 2010. Made in 2012 of Rickrack, thread, machine stitched. It measures aproximately 50 x 38 inches.
Commissions
Projects commissioned for hospitals in Maryland and Michigan.
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Slicedetail Cut and rolled wool, hand-stitched together 73" x 73" Commission installed at the Mott Children's and Women's Hospitals, University Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan Photo: Dan Meyers
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Slicedetail Cut and rolled wool, hand-stitched together 73" x 73" Commission installed at the Mott Children's and Women's Hospitals, University Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan Photo: Dan Meyers
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DendrochoronoblastInstalled near the elevators in the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Tower, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. Dendrochoronoblast was made in 2011 of layered tulle hand stitched on linen. It measures 61” x 71”
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Dendrochronoblast
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detail Dendrochonoblastdetail Dendrochoronoblast 2011 Linen, tulle, hand stitched 61” x 71” Installed near the elevators in the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Tower, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
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Seen SceneSeen Scene 2011 Felt appliqué, hand stitched 36 ½” x 95 ½” Installed in the Children’s Emergency Waiting Room at the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD