Quiet Rhythm traces the lifelong journey of artist Susan Sommer, revealing the experiences, inspiration, creative process, and evolution that have shaped her art from childhood to her current portfolio.
Featuring interviews with art critics Peter Frank and Robert Metzger, who have studied Susan’s work for over twenty years, the film offers a look into her artistic world.
Sommer’s work can be seen in the de Saisset Museum of the University of Santa Clara, California, the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, in the Government House of the island of Saint Vincent, West Indies and the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California permanent collection. Her work may also be seen at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee among other private and public collections. Her biography is available in Who's Who in American Art.
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“In the hands of painters a century ago, nature was no longer something merely to be looked at, but something whose very essence was the proper subject of art.
This regard for nature, for painting, and for the relationship between the two recapitulates in Susan Sommer’s practice, allowing her art, an energy we understand both aesthetically and instinctively. Her painting comes from nature, from human perception of nature, and from the dynamic between the two.”
— Peter Frank