Alexander Susha

“Everybody has his or her memories – either vivid and distinct or hardly perceptible and dim, awakening some vague associations. And they are an inexhaustible source of inspiration for any artist”, says the artist, “I often catch myself thinking that I perceive my childhood’s world differently now: my granddad’s old chair, my granny’s mirror, measured rhythm of a churn, rattling of a sawing machine. And all that evokes very intense emotions…some insignificant event becomes influential – and that’s the way a painting is born.”
Alexander Susha’s works are warm and kind, simple and sincere. The author uses a lot of golden-brown colors in his paintings. “The nature is soft in its coloring, you know” says Alexander. His works are the reflection of the folk traditions, everyday life and nature. But the most characteristic feature of the artist’s style is a slender woman’s silhouette.

“The most important thing for me in painting is being sincere. It often happens that a painting is born spontaneously. When I start with a blank canvas I often have no idea what it’s going to look like at the end. My soul might tremble, awaken certain ideas and uncover something cherished. And then it comes into existence and our hearts respond…This spontaneity comes with experience – the more I paint the less I need to work out a concrete sketch in details. And I see a deep meaning in all that”.

Alexander Susha was born in a village of Domovitsk, Belarus in 1963
1981 Graduated from Minsk Art College
1986 Graduated from the Belarusian Art Academy (Monumental Painting Department)
1986-1991 Underwent a training course at the Artistic Associations of the Academy of Arts

Exhibitions
1990 The International Art Exhibition of Young Artists. Berlin, Germany
1992-1993 The Art Gallery. Warsaw, Gdansk, Sopot in Poland
1993 The Art Exhibition. Moscow, Russia
1995 -1999 Personal Exhibitions in Prague and Brno, Czech Republic; Moscow, Russia
Group Exhibitions in Brussels, Belgium; Paris, France; Vienna and Saltsburg, Austria
1998-2007 Regular participant of the republican exhibitions
2005 Two works were sold at the Christie’s Auction

Alexander Susha’s works are at the Museum of Modern Art (Minks, Belarus), the Art Funds of the Belarusian Artist Union, the Art Fund of the Republic of Belarus, Brest Local History Museum (Brest, Belarus), and Mogilev Art Museum of P. Maslennikov (Mogilev, Belarus), as well as in numerous private collections in Belarus and other countries.

[gallery of Alexander Susha]