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.

Splayed Self Portrait Rug

2018, hand stitched pom poms on felt, 84" x 56"
  • Splayed Self Portrait Rug
    Splayed Self Portrait Rug
    2018, hand stitched pom poms on felt, 84" x 56"
  • detail Splayed Self Portrait Rug
    detail Splayed Self Portrait Rug
    2018, hand stitched pom poms on felt, 84" x 56"

Flayed Self Portrait Rug

Self Portrait rug based on Tibetan Tantric Flayed Human Rugs.  Repurposed wool fabrics, hand stitched.
  • Flayed Self-Portrait Rug
    Flayed Self-Portrait Rug
  • Flayed Self Portrait (detail)
    Flayed Self Portrait (detail)
    2015 Approx 6 ft x 4 ft Hand stitched wool fabrics.

Value Added

Series of 50 enlarged flags.
  • ValueAdded#3
    ValueAdded#3
    Machine stitched found flag and lace.
  • ValueAdded#20
    ValueAdded#20
    Machine stitched found flag and fabric
  • ValueAdded#1
    ValueAdded#1
    Machine stitched found flag and fabric
  • ValueAdded#13
    ValueAdded#13
    Enlarged American Flag. Machine Stitched
  • ValueAdded#7
    ValueAdded#7
    Machine stitched found flag, fabric, and ribbon
  • ValueAdded#8
    ValueAdded#8
    Machine stitched found flag and trimming
  • ValueAdded#15
    ValueAdded#15
    Machine stitched found flag and fabric
  • ValueAdded#5
    ValueAdded#5
    Machine stitched found flag and fabric
  • ValueAdded#9
    ValueAdded#9
    Machine stitched found flag and fabric
  • Value Added Series
    Value Added Series
    Series 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.
  • Sifter
    Sifter
    2015 approx. 96 inches x 96 inches Aloha Shirt Bits netted in Safety Orange photo: Dan Meyers
  • Sifter (detail)
    Sifter (detail)
    2015 approx. 96 inches x 96 inches Aloha Shirt Bits netted in Safety Orange photo: Dan Meyers
  • Weeper
    Weeper
    2015 mixed aloha and fringe fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
  • wdetail_weeper.jpg
    wdetail_weeper.jpg
  • Twister
    Twister
    2015 mixed aloha fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
  • Twister (detail)
    Twister (detail)
    2015 mixed aloha fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
  • Blusher
    Blusher
    2015 mixed aloha fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
  • Blusher (detail)
    Blusher (detail)
    2015 mixed aloha fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
  • Buster
    Buster
    2015 mixed aloha fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers
  • Buster (detail)
    Buster (detail)
    2015 mixed aloha fabric tarp approximately 110 inches x 75 inches photo: Dan Meyers

Rupture

Installation at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
  • Rupture
    Rupture
    Detail of fringe spill running from building out on to street. Installed at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
  • Rupture
    Rupture
    View of red metallic fringe spilling onto street. Installed at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
  • Rupture
    Rupture
    Installed at Nova Scotia College or Art and Design. From the street, the red metallic fringe could be traced up through the four floors of the building.
  • Rupture
    Rupture
    Red metallic fringe seeped throughout the four floors of the building and onto the street.

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.
  • Mine
    Mine
    Detail looking up. Cut and stacked wool. 170" x 59" x 61" Installation in the observation deck stairwell ? Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
  • Mine
    Mine
    View 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
  • Mine
    Mine
    View 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
  • Mine
    Mine
    view 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.
  • Ken Oaks Rd
    Ken Oaks Rd
    Photo of hand-hooked wool rug made into postcard.
  • Belair Rd
    Belair Rd
    Photo of hand hooked wool rug made into postcard.
  • Woodstock Field
    Woodstock Field
    Photo of hand hooked wool rug made into postcard.
  • Druid Park Dr
    Druid Park Dr
    Photo of hand hooked wool rug made into postcard.
  • Kenly Ave
    Kenly Ave
    Photo of hand hooked wool rug made into postcard.
  • Five Stumps
    Five Stumps
    Exhibition 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.
  • I heart CZ
    I heart CZ
    I<3CZ 2012 Couch, linen, red heart yarn dimensions variable
  • I heart CZ
    I heart CZ
    I<3CZ 2012 Couch, linen, red heart yarn dimensions variable
  • detail I heart CZ
    detail I heart CZ
    I<3CZ 2012 Couch, linen, red heart yarn dimensions variable

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.
  • All the Walks
    All the Walks
    Google Earth view of all the daily walks I made in Baltimore in 2010.
  • All the Walks
    All the Walks
    Everyday 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.
  • Baltimore Daily Walks in 2010/Red RickRack
    Baltimore Daily Walks in 2010/Red RickRack
    This 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.
  • Slice
    Slice
    detail 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
  • Slice
    Slice
    detail 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
  • Dendrochoronoblast
    Dendrochoronoblast
    Installed 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”
  • Dendrochronoblast
    Dendrochronoblast
  • detail Dendrochonoblast
    detail Dendrochonoblast
    detail 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
  • Seen Scene
    Seen Scene
    Seen 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