Sue Hertz
My oil paintings are inspired by the scenery and people around me. At my studio, you’ll find paintings of local scenes, seascapes, people, and more. Water is featured in many of my paintings, as I’m fascinated by its ever-changing interplay of colors, textures, and movements.
CONTACT INFORMATION
- phone:
- 607-257-6281
- e-mail:
- sue@suehertzfineart.com
- website:
- www.suehertzfineart.com
ADDRESS
DeWitt Building, 215 N. Cayuga Street (a brick building flanked by Cayuga, Buffalo and Seneca Streets with entrances both on Seneca and Buffalo). My studio is in the first-floor “office complex” (up one flight).STUDIO DIRECTIONS
You’ll find my artwork at 215 North Cayuga Street in the Dewitt Building (where Moosewood Restaurant is located). The building is flanked by Cayuga, Buffalo, and Seneca Streets. Enter from the Buffalo or Seneca Street side and go up one flight of stairs to the first floor. Halfway down the hall you’ll see an open brown double door inviting you in.
BIO
I’ve been painting for just eight years, but looking back it’s clear that art has always been in my blood. Why else would I have been so traumatized when my kindergarten teacher forbade me from drawing, fearing that my drawing obsession might stunt my development in other areas? When I eventually snuck a piece of drawing paper from the art closet, I felt whole again.
After kindergarten, I was rarely without a piece of paper, sketching at every opportunity I had. My career path, however, took a different direction. I got a Ph.D. in linguistics at Cornell, taught and did research in speech perception and synthesis, and founded a local speech technology company, which I ran for seventeen
years. After selling the company, and wondering what next, I took an art class at the Ithaca CSMA, and the rest is history.
I have since founded another speech technology company (see www.novaspeech.com), but never again will my speech undertakings overshadow my art pursuits. I am fascinated by the similarities in how humans perceive objects and sound, integrating cues like intensities, contrasts, sizes, etc. into meaningful “scenes”, be
they landscapes or sentences. I see speech and art as synergistic endeavors and realize now that while I’ve only painted with a brush for eight years, I’ve actually been painting most of my adult life.
