Sukey Bryan in the studio, Stanford, California. Photo: James Dewrance

Biography
Sukey Bryan was born in New Jersey in 1961 and grew up in Connecticut and France. She graduated, in 1983, from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts with majors in Fine Arts and English. She worked for five years as a graphic designer in New York withVignelli Associates, followed by three years of free-lance work in San Francisco. She received a Master of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1990. Bryan received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council in 1991 and from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1993.

With the support of the N.E.A. Individual Artist Fellowship, Sukey Bryan painted a series of work based on the environments of Iceland and the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Her interest in the volcanic nature of the Icelandic landscape led to several years of work that explores the interactions between natural elements (lava, water, gases and rock) during seismic activity.

Over the last several years, Sukey Bryan has painted series of work based on a variety of environments including tidal waves, wildfire, ocean shallows, tides, rain, and grasses. During the summer of 2008, she worked in Alaska as artist residence at Denali National Park. Her current work uses aspects of the Alaskan environment including glaciers, icebergs, and glacier rivers.