ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS Waxlander Gallery Suzanne Donazetti
Suzanne Donazetti grew up in Maryland and
North Carolina. After living in Taiwan
and Germany, she moved to Baltimore, where she worked in the Biophysics
Department at Johns Hopkins University as a text editor and illustrator for
scientific papers. In 1982 she moved to
New Mexico where she learned to silversmith and to experiment with coloring
metal. She worked for several years with chemical patinas, beginning with
silver. She was dissatisfied with the colors of the patinas, so she began to
paint on 36-gauge copper, using transparent acrylics, mica powders, and
pigments. She is one of very few
artists painting on copper and has developed her techniques through many years
of experimentation.
In 1997 Suzanne stopped
doing functional pieces and gradually moved into two-dimensional abstract
paintings. Her vision is to communicate
the possible harmony to be found in the natural environment, through the
refractive lens of weaving. Because of this vision, she is frequently chosen to
create site-specific pieces for hospitals and medical centers.
In 1999, Suzanne won
her first public art commission for the New Mexico Emergency Management Center.
The seven large panels—depicting scenes of the New Mexico landscape at different
times of the day and night—were designed to alleviate the stress of the
emergency personnel working in the building. In 2000, she was selected to
create a series of tapestries for the main courtroom of the Alaska Supreme
Court in Anchorage, Alaska. The project took eight months to complete and used
about 700 feet of copper. In 2003, she
was selected by the Connecticut Arts Commission to create a series of large
pieces for the new departure terminal at Bradley International Airport, in
Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Suzanne currently lives in Columbia, Maryland, near her children and grandchildren. Her
artwork is shown by Waxlander Gallery in Santa Fe, NM; Occasions By Design,
Scottsdale, AZ; Phoenix Gallery, Park City, UT; One of A Kind Gallery,
Charleston, SC; as well as in corporate and private collections. She also participates in occasional art
shows throughout the country, most recently the Frederick Festival of Arts and
Artscape in Baltimore.
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