B I O | Suerollinsart

Sue Rollins (b. 1960, Hollywood, FL) is a painter and printmaker based in Guilford, CT. Her work focuses on the interior and exterior landscape, real and imagined.

Her solo and two-person exhibitions include Land Water Sky at Keyes Gallery, Stony Creek, Connecticut, and Altered Landscapes at City Gallery, New Haven. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at The Painting Center, New York, (Seen and Unseen), New Britain Museum of American Art (Nor'easter, 2025), Mattatuck Museum (Mixmaster, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2025, 2026), and Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California (How is the Weather?), among others. She has participated in the 74th and 75th A-1 Exhibit and The Power of Love at Silvermine Galleries in New Canaan. She is an affiliate of Viridian Artists in NYC, in The Painting Center Art File in NYC, and a member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists.

She received a BFA from the University of Florida, Gainesville and studied with abstract expressionist Hiram Williams and printmaker Ken Kerslake.

Curator and artist Julie Durkin Marty says, "Rollins builds worlds through accumulation—each canvas a site where color, gesture, and material engage in productive tension. Her process is one of addition and erasure: layers are built up, scraped back, and reconsidered. What remains are surfaces that hold evidence of their own becoming—ghosts of previous decisions hovering beneath current forms. This archaeological approach to painting transforms the canvas into something closer to sediment, where time becomes visible. Rollins is interested in the liminal—those spaces between representation and abstraction, intention and accident, memory and present experience. Her compositions don’t resolve neatly. Instead, they offer moments of visual friction that hold space for ambiguity."