Susan J. Silvester
About
I am originally from the New York city area, lived in Dallas, before presently making my home in Sacramento, California. My prior work experiences of working on TV show, modelmaking, art fabricator, and multimedia/web designer has influenced my current art work.
My varied and notable background includes being an art fabricator creating artwork for Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselman, Marisol, and Lynda Benglis, sculpted clay animation models for "Pee Wee’s Playhouse," designing computer graphics for "Santa and the Snowmen" (computed animated TV movie), and the supervising and creating one of the sets for the retired "Back to the Future" ride for Universal Studio. Other clients included creating models for TV commericials for "The Pillsbury Dough Boy", "Twizzlers", "Teddy Grahams", Acura, and creating prototype toys for Warner Brothers and Disney. More recently, I worked as a digital artist, originally as an animator on the PC game, "Rise of the Triad" and later as a designer of websites, such as The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the virtualwall.org, and monsterexchange.com.
My skills acquired through time spent creating work for others is now internalized. My work now delves into the darker side of childhood memories and experience. The work may vary in materials but not in content.
