Suzanne was selected as one of the juried artists to participate in the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Artists on Location.

“Fresh Citrus Spring” was selected for TAA’s Spring Show: Creating Full of Positivity

“Black, White & Grey” was selected to be on display in the Mayors’ Offices Exhibition, Knoxville, TN. 12 x 16 | Oil | $500

Suzanne’s oil portrait “Daniel” was selected to hang in the Mayors’ Offices in Knoxville, TN.

Suzanne arrived in Knoxville during the 1982 World’s Fair when downtown Knoxville was celebrating a joyful harmonious world culture. The iconic Sunsphere is a continual reminder of the bold, bright, positive, light energy the sun radiates over Knoxville. We are created to shine and Suzanne perceives herself as a work of art in process and […]

What does abstract art mean to you? What can it teach us about life and art?

Abstraction is bringing forth the essence and the spirit of an artist’s sensitive interpretation of content as expressed through the language of design. Abstract images subliminally communicate in another dimension of thoughts and feelings that words can not describe. We remember what we feel.

For Suzanne Jack, abstraction can come as easily from altering one’s perception as from
altering reality. “Water Gems” had its start during one of her periodic visits to the Great Smoky
Mountains. The artist, who lives in Knoxville, Tennesse, likes to get to the Smokies in the morning so she can spend a good eight hours photographing, painting and indulging her senses. In this case, she stepped out into a stream, then perched on a rock before starting to shoot photos from different angles. The photo that inspired “Water Gems” encompassed no more than several inches of real space.

“Rhapsody of Tulips”, March 8 – May 30, 2005

Suzanne Jack’s “Rhapsody of Tulips”, a series of landscapes created with pastels, were featured the spring of 2005 at Nashville International Airport.

1st Place Mary Hawkins Edwards Award

Hart’s Cove, Pastel, 35 x 23, 2003

Juror’s Statement
……What makes an art piece good enough to be accepted or to win an award in a show?
Above all else, the piece must “speak” to me. I want to feel the artist’s passion for the subject and the art of creation. Beyond that, I examine the means the artist has used to express the point of view – color, design, format. And finally, I consider technique, occasionally preferring simplicity one complexity.” Nita Leland, Dayton, Ohio

Bronze Award
9th Annual Southeast Regional Juried Fine Arts Exhibition
Fort Walton Beach, FL