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Beth Surdut’s
Gorgeous Southwest Silks
Luscious, sumptuous, glowing---Beth
Surdut’s
hand painted silk accessories and clothing are as
gorgeous as a red sunset lighting the Sangre de Cristo
mountains or a walk through the golden aspen forests
above Santa Fe.
Surdut's shawl - Aspen Glow
Another of Surdut's creations - Sangre
Sunset
Currently available from
the artist and at Purple Sage in the heart of
Santa Fe, the wearable art of this prolific fine artist
and textile designer was first featured in the
Washington Post and exhibited in the Smithsonian
Institution’s Renwick Gallery. The Cahoon Museum of
American art showed the South Pacific-inspired painted
cape
Power without Sacrifice, which also floated down
the runway of the internationally acclaimed New Zealand
Wearable Art Awards. The American Textile History Museum
requested her hand-painted silk men’s Ultimate Aloha
Shirts™ for exhibition in 2004. This museum also
commissioned Surdut to implement her unusual vision to
design an entire exhibit of Hawaiian shirts. The
Surdut Tropical Table Linen Collection debuted in
2004 at major museums and Bloomingdale’s. Commissions
include designing and painting Celtic motifs for fashion
icon Mary McFadden, and shaping product identity for
resorts.
Beth Surdut
is a visual storyteller—a designer, colorist, and writer
whose visionary paintings are exhibited in museums and
galleries internationally. The recent move to New Mexico
inspired new series including
Listening to Raven ~
Drawings, Myths and Realities now showing
at the Charles Collins Gallery in Taos. Since Ms.
Surdut’s arrival in Santa Fe in June 2008, her paintings
have been featured in the Santa Fe New Mexican multiple
times and she has been interviewed on KSFR’s Gardens,
Food & Santa Fe and Radio Cafe. Edible Santa Fe Magazine
commissioned Gift of the Corn Mother from her
Art From the Kitchen~Painted and Served for the
cover of the Winter 09 issue.
Her studio provides
custom design services for hotels and private homes,
product branding identity, and licensing for
reproduction by manufacturers including textiles,
Hawaiian shirts, women’s apparel, giftware, tile murals,
and home goods.
During a 10-year career
designing and fabricating architectural art glass in the
Washington, D.C. area, the artist garnered commissions
for private and public spaces, including 24 windows in a
Middle Eastern palace and an intricate botanically
themed piece for an intimately delightful hotel in Key
West, Florida.
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