About the Artist
Art in any form whether it be dance, music or painting has always been my inspiration in life. In my work, strive to reveal true beauty, the beauty which nature has intended us to see. I strive to represent the natural atmosphere of beauty in objects and places.
I am an oil painter who has always had great respect for the old masters of tradition. My admiration of traditional paintings extends to the realism in my work today. My still lives are about poetry and symbolism.
Inspired by the elegance of the ballet, as dancers grace the stage, their movement and soulfulness awakens my passion to translate this on to my canvas, evoke dignity and elegance. This allows me to bring to life the feeling, the dream and the soul of the dancer.
I believe that my paintings possess mystery and some fantasy to please the eye and not to bore the viewer. What I am trying to achieve in my painting is to create a mood to express deep intense feelings and romanticism to touch human emotion.
Susan Gheyssari, November 2017
Bio:
Susan completed a three-year program in Contemporary Art at L'École des Beaux Arts in France (1984-1987). She learned the mastery of traditional painting from notable Boston realist painter, Joel Babb, at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts (1990-2000). Susan also studied with Ed Stitt, a professional Boston realist artist and teacher, from 2002-2005.
Susan has been represented by Boston’s most finest galleries. Most recently, she was represented by the prestigious Newbury Fine Arts gallery (2016-2023), and previously Soprafina Gallery and Au Gold Gallery in Boston’s South End.
Featured in Modern Luxury’s Boston Common Magazine, March 2018.
The mystery and beauty of the ballet has permeated
Susan Gheyssari's profound images, which seem to radiate with mystery. Gheyssari masters the magic of conveying the aura of ballet through her floating costumes. Never before has a contemporary painter combined an uplifting sensory delight of the performing arts with such brilliant studio painting.
As a Boston based artist, Gheyssari has developed an intimate friendship with The Boston Ballet. Her quest has been to pay homage to the both the ballet dancers and the ballets themselves. Note her "Black Swan", "Blue Bird" or “Doll Costume Nutcracker" and like a novella, we the observer fill her delicate composition with our imagination. Susan is a big supporter of the Boston Ballet and currently enjoys being a member of the prestigious Boston Ballet's Board Of Advisors.
Art Shows
Newbury Fine Arts
May 2023, “Dynamic Impressions”
December 2022, “Opera Houses”
March 2022, “Spring Art Show”
February 2021, “Love at First Glance”
August 2020, “Five and Under”
April 2019, “April Show”
March 2018, “Spring into Color”
Mass College of Art, Spring Show (Juried) - 2018. Boston, MA
Soprafina Gallery
Solo show, Nov. 2017 - "Inspired by Ballet"
Solo show, Feb. 2016 - "Spirit of Ballet”
Mass College of Art, Spring Show (Juried) - 2017,
Au Gold gallery show May 2013
Au Gold Gallery, group show, "Alchemy Juried Show," South End, Boston - 2013.
"Gold Gallery is pleased to announce the newest addition to our roster of artists, Boston-based painter, Susan Gheyssari. Susan has studied internationally, most notably at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in France and Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, supplementing her passion for Realism and Impressionism. The Boston Ballet inspires many of her paintings; the suspended costumes are both beautiful and haunting and capture the essence of the absent dancer. Other paintings reference her Persian background. Pomegranates populate her panels, symbolizing abundance, fertility, and invincibility. All of her work delicately balances realist ideals with a contemporary aesthetic."
Museum fine Art school of Boston, December Show , 2012 Boston ,Ma
- Broomfield Gallery South End, December Group Show - 2011. Boston,MA
- Brickbottom Gallery 2010 , Cambridge MA
- Amsterdam Whitney gallery 2008 New York
- Newton Public Library Annual Awards Show, First Price Leslie Russel Award Newton art Association - 2006. Newton ,Ma
- Concord Art Association Annual Juried Show - 2004 Concord MA