Kathy Suder

Kathy Suder is an American artist known for her large-scale color boxing photographs and paintings. She is also an arts volunteer in Fort Worth, focusing on programs benefitting children. She frequented art museums, which inspired her to start painting. While working at the Anderson Art Center in Snowmass, Colorado, she rediscovered one of her boxing photographs, which became the inspiration for her first boxing painting. An ARTnews review observed that "they hint at the artist's history as a painter ..." They also have been likened to boxing paintings by George Bellows, and their attention to chiaroscuro connects them to Renaissance art. Commenting on the relationship between her boxing paintings and photographs, Andrew Marton for Fort Worth Star-Telegram observed, "These highly affecting photos, freezing the ring's ritualistic choreography, serve as Suder's essential sketching in preparation for her boxing paintings. The stylistic bridge between Suder's photos and paintings is in the blurred representations of the boxers' bodies, impressionistic masses of flesh with roughly drawn appendages attached to blots of color symbolizing boxing gloves." She was also interested in capturing the democratizing environment of subways.

Other In 1982, while Suder was working in New York at Glamour, a coworker shared a chicken recipe with her. After serving it to her boyfriend, the two were engaged soon after. Several other coworkers also got engagement proposals after serving the dish to their boyfriends. Engagement chicken earned its name when the recipe appeared in the January 2004 issue of the magazine.

Selected solo exhibitions

First solo exhibition (Randall's Gourmet Cheesecake Co., [date]) Paris Suite and Knockout (William Campbell Contemporary Art, 2004) Underground: Photographs by Kathy Sherman Suder (Amon Carter Museum of American Art, March 15 – August 17, 2014) Los Angeles County Museum of Art