Susan Benarcik is an installation artist and surface designer based in New York City.  Deeply rooted (no pun intended) in horticulture and design, her concern for the environment is made evident in both her 3-dimensional sculptural installations, as well as in her rich array of surface designs.

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Part printmaker and part sculptor, Benarcik designs contemplative compositions for interior and exterior applications that are highly tactile and evocative; evincing a fondness and respect for materiality.  The artist’s ultimate goal is to provide environmentally inspired and efficient design that “introduces echoes of nature into our everyday lifestyle”.

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In Benarcik’s work, both two and three-dimensional organic patterns become part of our daily cognitive experience and bring equilibrium to our senses.  Benarcik takes elemental forms from the natural world into her studio and carefully transforms them by stacking, stringing, knotting, layering and weaving them into multi-dimensional sculptures for public and private spaces.  Similarly, the artist’s surface designs and earth-inspired color palette are based on her personal dialogue with natural materials.  These designs are applicable to a variety of products such as stationary, printed and woven fabrics - for home and fashion, rugs, and wall surfaces.  Always thinking forward Benarcik believes perhaps one day soon, her original and meaningful designs with be used for woven yoga mats and bamboo snowboards.

         

Benarcik enthusiastically looks for opportunities to work with product designers and manufacturers that share her concern for environment and for conscientious, efficient, and safe means of production.

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For further information please contact the artist through her website: www.susanbenarcik.com or design@susanbenarcik.com