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Continental Divide, 2025, colored pencil,watercolor and collage on drafting film.
Current/Recent Exhibits
CURRENT
• February 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027 Explore This ! 22 Colored Pencil Society of America View exhibit at https://cpsa.org/explore-this-22-online-exhibition/ Juried exhibithion of 60 works representing the best of colored pencil with mixed media.Top 3 winner- Award for Exceptional Merit (above) COMING SOON • April 24 - May 19, 2026 SOLO EXHIBITION SPARK Gallery Denver, CO http://www.sparkgallery.com RECENT • January 3 - 27, 2026 Spark Members' Exhibit, one of two Spark Gallery 1200 Acoma St, #100, Denver, CO 80204 http://www.sparkgallery.com • May 30 - June 25, 2025 Wild Connections Solo Invitational Exhibits by Susan Rubin and Rhiannon Alpers exploring connections between mountain and field, flora and habitat, nature and observer Blue Sage Center for the Arts Paonia, CO http://www.bluessage.org • April 11 - May 6, 2025 Spark Members' Exhibit, one of two Inaugural exhibit -on the Denver Art Museum plaza, directly across from the museum entrance Spark Gallery--NEW LOCATION 1200 Acoma St, #100, Denver, CO 80204 http://www.sparkgallery.com • March 27-April 20, 2025 Pleiades Group show of 7 Denver artists, all women A stellar small works show D'Art Gallery, Denver https://dartgallery.org • November 1, 2023 -November 1, 2025 Rocky Mountain High, juried multi-venue exhibit 1 - Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Nature Center, Vail, CO November 1 - April 1 2 - CU Museum of natural History, Boulder, CO April 2 - June 27 3 - Lakewood Arts Council June 30 - July 25 4- Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT September 27-November 1 • July 16-October 15, 2024 Observations in Nature: Susan Rubin Susan Frei Nathan Fine Works on Paper, LLC An Online Exhibition Series Exploring an Artist's Journey with Nature View at http://sfnbotanicalart.com/exhibitions/index.htm • March 14 - June 28, 2024 Looking Back: An International Retrospective, Part 2 Exhibit of 43 selected works from Hunt International Exhibitions 9-16 Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Museum Pittsburgh, PA https://www.huntbotanical.org/exhibitions/show.php?139 • February 1, 2023 - January 31, 2024 Explore This! 19 Exhibit of drawings in colored pencil and mixed media Colored Pencil Society of America juried exhibit AWARD FOR DISTINCTION https://cpsa.org/exhibitions/et-awards/2023-explore-this-19-awards/ • Febuary 1 - 25, 2024 Snapshots- solo exhibit SPARK Gallery Denver, CO sparkgallery.com |
Publications
COLORED PENCIL MAGAZINE, December 2021 Issue
Tutorial, Water Droplets on Leaves December 1, 2021 THE BEST OF DRAWING
Artists Magazine and American Artist Strokes of Genius 13 Competition Winners 2021 November 2021 WESTWORD Magazine
March 30, 2021, Arts and Culture Linked to image below 
THE BEST OF DRAWING
Artists Magazine and American Artist Strokes of Genius 12 Competition Winners 2020 November 2020 LOOKBOOK 20|20
Colored Pencil Magazine Cover and Interior page January 2020 
COLORED PENCIL MAGAZINE, October 2019 Issue Tutorial: Apple in 3 Colors, download PDF October 1, 2019 Strokes of Genius 10: Inspiring Subjects editor Rachel Rubin Wolf North Light Books, Nov 6, 2018 Meet the Natives, A Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs: Bridging the Gap Between Trail and Garden by Dan Johnson / M. Walter Persman, April 20, 2012 amazon.com From Penstemons to Pines Exhibit catalog / artist guide Denver Botanic Gardens, 2010 (find my writing and illustrations throughout the book) Botanical Portraits in Colored Pencil by Ann Swan, 2010 amazon.com (find me in the Gallery) Flourish, A Visionary Garden in the American West by Panayoti Kelaidis, 2009 amazon.com Durable Plants for the Garden by Plant Select, 2008 amazon.com (Find me on pages 50, 161, 166) Today’s Botanical Artists by Cora Marcus & Libby Kyer, 2007 amazon.com (Find my profile on pages 100-101) |