SUSI CORA

About the Artist

Susi Cora’s practice comes from a lifelong interest in the natural world. She is largely inspired by the surfaces of lichen-covered fountains, geologic patterns and scientific theories. Working in various mediums, she focuses on control and the yielding of control, as well as permanence and transience. This uncertainty in both the making and outcome provide layers of meaning to her pieces.

Her hands press the materials into forms that are sometimes fragile, sometimes scarred and torn. Works on paper are manipulated and then reformed revealing fissures and creases. Ceramic work is often pit-fired and materials are purposefully limited. This restraint comes from a process-driven practice that forms a conspiratorial and primeval relationship between materiality and concept.

Cora is a visual artist who works in Alexandria, Virginia and Hancock, Maryland. She is trained as an architect, graduating from the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She additionally received her Master’s in Fine Arts from The George Washington University in 2016. Her work has been exhibited at the Target Gallery in Alexandria, VA, Gallery 102, the DC Center for the Arts, The Katzen Arts Center, and the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C.

For more information about the artist, visit susicora.com.

Recent exhibitions at Touchstone Gallery include:

• Cross Pollination (2024)

• Chesapeake (2022)

• Chesapeake (online, 2021)

• Highwire (2018)