os Angeles based artist Susan Silton, exhibits a text-based work that continues the artist’s investigation of the ambiguous nature of perception, activating the space between presence and absence, language and meaning, form and content. Silton paints single words on the wall - which in and of themselves are nuanced in their meaning - using the same paint color as the wall itself but in a slightly different finish. The resulting words—whose subtle presence on the wall is animated by available light and the viewer’s movement around a given space—possess an optical, sculptural, and contextual resonance.

Susan Silton works is supported through diverse media—including photographic-based processes, video, installation, and offset lithography. Her work has been exhibited in exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Feigen Contemporary, NY; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; SITE Santa Fe, NM; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica; LACMA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Allianz Zeigniederlassung, Berlin, Germany. Her work is included in forthcoming exhibitions at Vassar College, NY; ICA/Philadelphia; and the Pasadena Museum of California Art; and was included in Picturing Modernity: The Photography Collection, SFMOMA (2006). Silton has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, as well as awards and commissions from the Durfee Foundation and Clockshop Foundation. She is a recipient of a Getty/California Community Foundation Fellowship in 2005, as well as a C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship in 2003.