Susan Crile (born 1942) is an American

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and

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Biography

Crile was born in 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended

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, graduating in 1965. In 1972 Crile was interviewed by Paul Cummings for the

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. The same year her image was included the iconic poster Some Living American Women Artists by

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. Her work has political themes, such as work based on images of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in

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after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Many of these images are faceless and rendered in reddish or grayish mud tones and textures, suggestive of clay, slate, or dust (or perhaps the color is, as the ''New York Times'' commented, "fecal brown"). The victims themselves are outlined in ghostly white chalk, becoming, in the words of the ''New York Times'' review, "spectral icons of martyrdom." Her work is in the collections of the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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, In 2017, Crile produced a Three part series on documenting the abusive behaviour within the Prison system. The artwork depicted Prisoner Brutality such as, artwork showing men being stepped on, placed in small boxes and more, highlighting the physical and mental abuse in her work. The aim of her work was to highlight the destructive and detrimental ways prisoners are treated. The work was on display in the Lukacs and Experimental Space Galleries in Loyola Hall.

References

* Dreikausen, Margret
"Aerial Perception: The Earth as Seen from Aircraft and Spacecraft and Its Influence on Contemporary Art"
(Associated University Presses: Cranbury, NJ;

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: 1985) * Frank, Elizabeth; Susan Crile; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (

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)
''Susan Crile, recent paintings : an exhibition''
( Cleveland, Ohio: The Center, 1984)

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External links

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of Crile's work, with a biography, at webpage of dealer Stewart & Stewart (

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