Bio
Susan Landesmann is a Los Angeles–based painter whose work moves between figuration and abstraction. After many years working as a graphic designer and art director, she shifted her focus to painting as a primary practice, bringing with her a strong sensitivity to structure, composition, and color.
Her paintings often center on the female figure and on constructed spaces that feel both architectural and psychological. Working intuitively, she is interested in how form, posture, and spatial relationships can suggest interior states—quiet moments of reflection, tension, or stillness. Her practice is informed by lived experience, memory, and an ongoing awareness of the body over time.
My work explores the space between presence and absence, structure and vulnerability. Some paintings include the figure directly; others rely on geometry and architectural forms to imply it. I think of these spaces as inhabited, even when the body is no longer visible.
I am drawn to moments of stillness and containment—how a shape can hold emotion, or how a figure can feel both grounded and unsettled within a space. The work often develops slowly, through layering and revision, allowing forms to shift and relationships to emerge organically.
Rather than telling a specific story, I am interested in creating images that invite reflection. The paintings function as quiet interiors—places where personal memory, observation, and abstraction intersect.