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What Does Susan Mikula Do For A Living? What Kind Of Artist Is Susan Mikula?
Susan Mikula is an American photographer and painter.
After years working in the art industry and serving on an art jury, Mikula had her first solo photography exhibition in 1998.
She uses older technology to produce her photographs, including pinhole cameras and Polaroid cameras. Mikula is the longtime partner of political commentator Rachel Maddow.
Mikula had an exhibition in 2009 at the TJ Walton Gallery in Provincetown with Rachel Maddow and Suzanne Westenhoefer attending.
In 2010, Mikula had her first photography show, American Device Recent Photographs, in San Francisco.
A year later, Mikula released a three part industrial landscape series titled American Bond. These American vistas spanned images of America from Texas to California to Massachusetts.
What Kind Of Artist Is Susan Mikula?
Mikula is a self-taught photographer who works primarily with vintage technology to produce her work.
Rejecting artificial light and digital photo manipulation techniques, Mikula uses expired analog film and vintage apparati, including pinhole.
Mikula is interested in the movement of light and time. She uses older technology to produce her photographs. Among her tools are pinhole cameras and Polaroid cameras.
Mikula finds inspiration from painters. In an interview with The Advocate, she listed the following artists specifically: Julian Schnabel, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Gerhard Richter, Agnes Martin. Some of her local influences include Maggie Mailer, Charlie Hunter, TJ Walton, and Ward Schumaker.
