About the Artist

Susan Cottle Alberto is a painter who lives and works in New York City and Northeast PA.  Susan paints in oil and gouache in the studio and en plein air. This year Susan is participating in Plein Air Competitions in the Saranac Lake, Adirondacks, Quiet Valley in Stroudsburg, PA and Highbridge, NJ.  Susan has exhibited extensively in New York, Pennsylvania, New England and abroad including the Roberson Museum, Binghamton, The Painting Center, Synagogue for the Arts, Dacia Gallery, Wyndham Fine Arts, Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance and Wayne County Arts Alliance. Susan's paintings have been published in The Best of Sketching and Drawing, and The River Reporter's Our Country Home , where she was interviewed for The Art of Color.  Susan was National Park Service Artist-In-Residence in Petrified Forest, Arizona, and is represented in the Park Museum Collection.  She received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art Graduate School of Figurative and her BFA from Montserrat College of Art. Susan is Assistant Professor of Art at Parsons, The New School and Teaching Artist at 92NY  Susan has taught in several learning abroad programs throughout Italy.