Susan Maddux is a Los Angeles based artist whose work combines painting and sculpture into unique forms evocative of the colors and warmth of her native Hawaii and influenced by the arts of Asia and the Pacific. She was born on the island of Oahu in Hawaii to a hapa Japanese-American family where she absorbed the influence of Japanese folk art traditions and Buddhist temples as well as the arts of Polynesia. Susan brings her early experiences in the lush valleys of Hawaii and thirty years of education and experience as an artist and designer to these painted sculptural works. Each piece is made of individual acrylic paintings on canvas folded to conceal, reveal and transform the materials.
Private Collections
Arts and Letters Nu’uanu, 2021
Los Angeles Design Festival, 2020
Los Angeles Design Festival DTLA, 2019
Art Basel Miami, 2019
Pretty Smart Studio, 2019
Esqueleto, Los Feliz, 2019
The Common Thread Gallery, 2019
Los Angeles Design Festival, 2019
Awards / Scholarships
Bachelors of Fine Arts in painting, San Francisco Art Institute