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Sue
Robishaw
Biography
A self-taught artist, Sue started working
in wood twenty-five years ago, expanding into other areas of the arts in the
years since. A writer of both fiction and non-fiction, she also keeps alive the
forgotten craft of fingerweaving.
Her work in wood ranges from abstract
sculpture to live-edged boxes to hand-carved spoons. She is involved as well in
the world of watercolor, blurring the line between realism and abstract in her
own unique style.
Sue’s work has received a number of
awards and been involved in numerous juried and invitational shows and exhibits. She was one
of five artists invited to participate in a special wood exhibit at the Neville
Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and several of her sculptures were included in a
special exhibit at the Michigan Governor's suites.
Artist Statement
"I remember the fun of being involved in class floats, dance routines,
posters. That’s about as close as I got to "art" in my youth. Other
than maybe finger-painting in Kindergarten.
Years
later I met an artist who knew how to see, how to turn visions into objects. He
introduced me to designing, inventing, building, and carving wood. I discovered
a world I love; where the hand, eye and the spirit dance, and the possibilities
endless. I
don’t separate art and craft, whether of life or objects. Creativity begets
creativity. When I’m writing, paintings are forming in my mind; when painting,
I discover a sculpture. A song becomes a watercolor, the color of the leaves a
story. One area blends into another which leads to something different.
There
is so much to explore, to discover. Creative expression is difficult, fun, time
consuming, challenging, satisfying, a lot of work — sometimes all at the same
time. Chaotic and
peaceful, it has become an everyday part of my life. It gets into everything I
do, and drags me into more. It connects me to myself. It connects me to those
around me. Everyone who touches my art adds to it, to me, and I to them. Along
with the intensity and frustration, there is a lot of fun. The way of life I’ve
chosen allows me my way of art. It’s a good way to live, and it suits me.
Sue
Robishaw
Sue Robishaw
Selected Juried / Invitational Exhibitions &
Awards
2004
LSAA Juried Member Show — University Art Gallery, Marquette MI
Superior States, Governor’s Invitational — Lansing MI
Northern Exposure — Bonifas Art Fine Center — Juror Philip Sugden
2003
Northern Exposure — Bonifas Art Fine Center — Juror Peggy Flora Zalucha
Bonifas Art Center Board of Trustees
Purchase Prize Award
Creativity Unfolding — Solo Exhibit — Kasota Gallery, Bonifas Fine Art
Center
Summer Chamber Series Intermission Display — Manistique MI
LSAA Juried Member Show — University Art Gallery, Marquette MI
2002
Northern Exposure — Bonifas Art Center, Escanaba MI — Juror Mark
Mehaffey
Honorable Mention Award
Expressions In Wood and Wool, Marquette MI — 3 Person Exhibition
Expressions Art Show & Auction, Marquette MI
Juror — Art on the Rocks, Marquette MI
2001
Northern Exposure — Bonifas Art Center, Escanaba MI — Juror Stephen
Polacco
Honorable Mention Award
Expressions Art Show & Auction, Marquette MI
LSAA Juried Member Show — University Art Gallery, Marquette MI
Honorable Mention Award
Animal/Vegetable/Mineral Show — Berkowitz Gallery, Univ. Mich.–Dearborn
MI
2000
Northern Exposure — Bonifas Art Center, Escanaba MI — Juror Robert
Barnum
LSAA Juried Members’ Show — University Art Gallery, Marquette MI
Language of the Lakes — Bonifas Art Center, Escanaba MI
Artists in the Round, Marquette MI
Honorable Mention Award
1997 Northern Initiatives, Marquette MI
1995 Wood Works, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay WI — 5
person Exhibition
1993 Art on the Rocks, Marquette MI
Best of Show Award
Framecrafters Gallery, Escanaba MI — 3 person Exhibit
1984 – 1994 Juried Art fairs such as Madison WI, Midland MI, East
Lansing MI
ManyTracks -- Sue
Robishaw and Steve Schmeck
We live and work in our home, studio, and shop in the northwoods of
Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Our art, our work, our lives, and our play
interweave and blend to such a degree that it is often hard to tell where one
ends and the other begins, which is how we like it to be.
Our interest in a sustainable lifestyle and world permeates
our life and work. The sun provides our electricity, the wind pumps our water,
and the woods and the sun heat our home and cook our food. We strive to live a
non-disposable life.
The artwork that is created by each of us reflects our lives,
both inner and outer, individually and as a part of the larger communities in
which we live.
Contact
Information:
email:
mt@manytracks.com
telephone / fax:
1-877-644-2598 (toll free, Eastern time)
mail:
ManyTracks, 770N Fox Road, Cooks MI 49817
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"To be a voyant means to discern, on the far side of art and history,
realities which the eyes of others have yet failed to see." -- Rimbaud
Updated 12/14/2006
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