Susan Murrell is an artist whose work is created as a meditation on passageways, life transitions and the constancy of matter. Her practice has been supported with many opportunities funded by the Ford Family Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission. She has been awarded residencies at programs such as Yaddo, Ragdale, Arteles in Finland and Westfjords in Iceland. Murrell has exhibited at The Whatcom Museum, Siena Heights University, Boise State University, Schneider Museum of Art, Carnation Contemporary, and Portland State University, among others. Her work has recently been collected by the University of Oregon and the United States Library of Congress, Prints division. Murrell is a recipient of OAC’s 2022 Individual Artist Fellowship. She is a Professor of Art at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande where she glides on crystals and floats down rivers.

A few video links:

• Flowstone a walkthrough of her collaborative project with artist Hannah Newman.

• if water had its way a walkthrough of the piece installed at Carnation Contemporary.

• Conversation between artist and friend Maria Lux and Susan Murrell regarding if water had its way and how that installation builds on Susan’s previous work.

And some links to published interviews and essays:

• LVL3’s Artist of the Week, interview by artist and writer/curator Ben Herbert of the Chicago gallery, LVL3.

• Exploring Crossover: Flowstone artist MK Guth facilitates a conversation between collaborators Hannah Newman and Susan Murrell about their project, Flowstone

• A Place for Reimagining, essay by Eden Redmond published in Overlap and Outliers, a catalogue of the 2020-2021 Carnation Contemporary exhibition season.

• Our Infant Eyes essay by Amy Wheeler Harwood published in Basalt Literary Magazine

• Outland About exhibition essay by Patrick Collier, published by the Schneider Museum of Art

• we are all cosmic dust interview with PSU’s studio MFA students

• Shell exhibition essay by Daniel Forbes, published by Whitman College