“Aldanondo is a bright, unique, courageous and accomplished
artist. It is my experience of her to know an artist whose work is highly expressive,
courageous, sophisticated, consistently rigorous, personal and well executed.
She is an artist who is intelligent, curious and experimental and who works very
hard and intensely on her paintings. Susana is also an artist who looks and
thinks and learns from all the art being done in our time. She sees and thinks
about contemporary art every day as she has developed her own vision.
Her work ambitiously addresses pictorial issues and expresses with feeling,
insight, imagery, color, imagination, and sensibility, the dichotomy between
expression, drawing, geometry, with personal self-awareness. She can
courageously manipulate an interesting complex of sound, place, materials in
order to achieve her creative painterly goals. She is articulate, creative and
publicly out there in the world executing her complex line paintings while having
her work being publically exhibited many times.” ”

“Susana ‘is the real deal, we studied together in a class at the league. She was inquisitive, and found an affinity for exploring geometrical abstraction after coming in contact with my work. She masters color and space throughout her canvases. Susana is also a kind artist who shares a sense of camaraderie with me and my wife.””

“Strong sense of color and a visionary. Making large scale work in public takes courage.”

“I teach entrepreneurship at Columbia University. I meet thousands of artists each year, all of them talented, talent is a must, but very few have shown the determination, dedication and self awareness that Aldanondo shows. Her work speaks for itself.”

“Susana Aldanondo is a very talented artist with high sensitivity and authenticity. She expresses complex feelings in a simple abstraction expression and knows how to catch her audience through the art she produces. Her human side, of being a simple and friendly person, gives her the power of attraction. You feel immediately drawn to her and comfortable talking about art and work. We worked on some projects together.
I also invited Aldanondo to talk with many other international artists; she immediately knew how to make the group feel comfortable and motivated. ”

“A breath of fresh air”

““She’s here painting all day. I see her from the steps of the Drawing Center.”

“Aldanondo has been painting in SoHo for some years. Since she paints here, she has improved SoHo. Her being out here improves this part of New York, bringing back the real soul of artists into the public scene.”

“It’s Open Studio every time she’s here. She’s reminding us that art is alive and not separate from us. I’ve lived in this area for over 50 years and I’ve never seen large abstract work being created in public. Thank you Susana.”

“Student of Larry Poons. Occasionally assisted in monitoring the class.”