Suzanne Arden

BIO

Suzanne Arden’s career has encompassed graphic design and corporate communications, working for Fortune 100 companies in New York City, followed by a stint in documentary film production and then work with small government contractors in the D.C. area.  Along the way, she’s been a life-long photographer.  Since getting hooked on glass after taking her first glass fusing class almost seven years ago, she’s done more glass and less photography, but is focusing on ways to intersect both passions, translating some of her photographic images into glass art in a way that communicates the emotion of the moment.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Like everyone I know who works in glass, I was hooked the moment I made my first cut. The possibilities in glass are infinite, and the idea that you can take brittle pieces of flat glass and melt them together to make evocative landscapes or abstract wall art or mold them into bowls or plates or votives is endlessly engaging … and often challenging as glass doesn’t always do what you expect of it. 

As a life-long photographer, I'm working out the intersection between my photographs and my glass work, separating imagery into multi-layered landscapes and seascapes.