Sue Ravitz

Sue Ravitz grew up a small-town girl, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. For generations, the women in her family did crafts. While she began doing handicrafts at an early age, she was never exposed to “fine art.” She continued her practice while raising her family in Chicago, Illinois. When her children left home, she began to explore color more seriously. She spent hours every day knitting small blocks of patterns, spreading them out on the floor, and considering how they related to each other. During this time, she and her husband actively collected art, primarily reductive, monochrome paintings – all surface and color. After moving to New York City in 2006, Ravitz began making rugs. She continues to braid, hook, crochet, and stitch, but her focus remains primarily on color interaction, no matter the medium. Ravitz had a solo presentation of her rugs and paintings at Mondo Cane Gallery (New York, NY) – now Patrick Parrish – and showed her needlework in a group exhibition at Minus Space (Brooklyn, NY). From 2020 – 2021, Ravitz curated, and then published, Painting on Porch, a series and book of paintings paired with her furniture collection and installed on the porch of her Connecticut farmhouse. Ravitz also directs and curates the program at 57W57ARTS.