Artwork copyright Susan Seniuk. Photo courtesy of the artist.

At the Threshold, 1985

Susan Seniuk
American (born 1951)

Location: Bethel High School, Spanaway

About the Artwork

At the Threshold is a portrait by artist Susan Seniuk that captures an anonymous family posed in front of a shadowy doorway. The image was sourced from a small photograph found by the artist in a magazine. While playing with scale and medium, Seniuk also points to her reworking of the photograph, printed using of half-tone dots, as an expressive method to examine concepts of family, cohesion, and fragmentation.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Bethel School District.

About the Artist

Seattle-based artist Susan Seniuk creates conceptual paintings characterized by imagery that she derives from newspapers and magazines. She received her Master of Fine Arts in painting from the University of Washington in Seattle.