Suzanne Dittenber’s work has been shown across the United States at Florida State University, Michigan State University, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, and Blue Mountain Gallery. She has been awarded artist residency grants at the Vermont Studio Center, MICA’s Alfred and Trafford Klots Residency in Brittany, France, and the Heliker LaHotan Foundation Residency on Cranberry Island, Maine. Dittenber received her BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design, her MFA in Painting from the University of New Hampshire, and has completed studies at the New York Studio School and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. She was born in Charleston, South Carolina, grew up in Columbus, Ohio and currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina where she is an Assistant Professor of Painting at UNC Asheville.
Dittenber’s paintings focus on objects that have been cast off or neglected. For instance, a book dropped in a bathtub or left open for a long period of time on a nightstand or coffee table is regarded as worthy of study. Objects and people that adapt to given circumstances over time show elasticity. She strives for similar qualities in her paintings by continuously adjusting to relationships and conditions at hand.
Veneration, 2018, oil on paper on board, 9x12 inches
Branch (end-stop), 2020, oil on linen, 16.25x12.25 inches
Red Light, Elephant Ear and Bolted Cabbage, 2019, oil on canvas, 60x60 inches
