Sue Rollins is a Connecticut-based painter and printmaker. Her recent work is an exploration of women's history, progress/decline, certainty/uncertainty, and truth/fiction, in light of the current absurdity of our times. Her landscapes combine traditional landscape painting, which are sometimes combined with abstract expressionist elements, addressing our current environmental challenges through “altered landscapes.” After a career in graphic design, she returned to painting and with a lifelong collection of ephemera and fragments of antique printed material, she utilizes the color and texture of the old paper as well as the interesting typography and letterforms.
She is a member of Silvermine Guild of Artists in New Canaan and is an elected member of Art League Rhode Island and Connecticut Women Artists. Her work was chosen for the 2024 Silvermine 74th A-One show, and she was the recipient of the Samuel and May Rudin Award at the 2024 Greenwich Art Society Summer Exhibit, juried by Lauren Rosati of the Met Modern. Her work has been featured in galleries and museums, including Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT; Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA; Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT; Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT and Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT. She received a BFA from the University of Florida and studied with abstract expressionist Hiram Williams and printmaker Ken Kerslake.
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EDUCATION
University of Florida
BFA, Painting and Drawing
SHOWS/EXHIBITS
2025
April 5 - May 2 Connecticut Women Artists Annual Juried Member Show, Art League of New Britain
January 12 - February 9 Mattatuck Museum Mixmaster, Waterbury, CT
​January 11 - February 6 Silvermine Guild Elected Member Exhibit, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
January 3- 27 Solo exhibit, Keyes Gallery, Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library, Stony Creek, CT
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2024 “Altered Landscapes” duo exhibit with Maria Markham, City Gallery, New Haven, CT
2024 Small Works Juried Exhibition, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2024 Silvermine 74th A-ONE Exhibit, New Canaan, CT
2024 City-wide Open Studios, Group Show, City Gallery, New Haven, CT
2024 "CONNECT," Art League Rhode Island, Pawtucket, RI
2024 Greenwich Art Society Annual Juried Summer Exhibition, “#TheLivingArtist,”
Samuel and May Rudin Foundation Award recipient
2024 Guilford Art League 76th Annual Juried Show, Guilford Art League, Guilford, CT
2024 Art Fluent, "This Land," Online Juried Show
2024 Madison Art Society 49th Annual Juried Exhibition, Madison, CT
2024 Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation, Elements Online International Exhibition: Air
2024 Elected Member Exhibit, Art League Rhode Island, Pawtucket, RI
2024 Printmaking Juried Exhibition, Five Points Arts, Torrington, CT
2024 New England Collective: Voices and Visions, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA
2023 Guilford Art League 75th Annual Juried Show, Guilford Art League, Guilford, CT
2021 Mattatuck Museum Mixmaster, Waterbury, CT
2019 Mattatuck Museum Mixmaster, Waterbury, CT
2018 Printmaking at CAW, Branford Art Center, Branford CT
2018 Present from the Past: Art League Rhode Island, Providence, RI
2017 Mattatuck Museum Mixmaster, Waterbury, CT
2016 Printmakers at CAW, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
AFFILIATIONS
Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, CT
CT Women Artists, elected member
Art League Rhode Island, elected member, Pawtucket, RI
Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT
Guilford Art League, Guilford, CT
Madison Art Society, Madison, CT
Lyme Art Association, Lyme, CT
Monotype Guild of New England
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