About
Susan Aurinko has been an artist all her life. She designed clothing, interiors, and jewelry before ultimately becoming a fine art photographer. A dozen years ago, looking for more ways to use her photographs, Aurinko had the idea of putting her images on silk scarves. She has traveled widely, capturing things that appealed to her and created designs from them. Born under a lucky star, Aurinko has also been fortunate to meet others who shared her vision – Sabina Cosiç, Federica Ghidelli, and Arica Hilton, thus far, who merged their ideas with Aurinko’s photographs to create a series of collaborative scarves in the essence of true artistic partnership.
Each exquisite, limited-edition LensFlair Editions scarf carries the creative heart and soul of Susan Aurinko – to wear one is to travel and look through the lens of the artist.
Susan Aurinko
Susan Aurinko, a photographer, writer, and curator, has shown her work in France, Italy, and India, as well as in the US. Her exhibition entitled STILL POINT INDIA opened at Kriti Gallery in Varanasi 2013 and is now available as a book. Aurinko’s work appears on several book covers, including The Stranger Among Us, Ariel, Scar Tissue, Slut Lullabies, and Bound and Broken, and four of her photographs are included in the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s permanent collection. In addition, her work is in the permanent collections of Loyola University Museum of Art and The Union League Club of Chicago and many private collections in France, Italy, India, the UK, Monaco, and across the US. In May of 2017, Aurinko’s Searching for Jehanne – The Joan of Arc Project was a solo exhibition at Loyola University Museum of Art and is now a book and is traveling. Aurinko is represented by Kriti Gallery in India and Hilton Asmus Contemporary in the US.
To Wear With Everything…Or Nothing Else
I owe a great deal to the inspiration of street art, which is why I chose to use these fabulous Chicago murals as our backdrop for our images and video. I want to thank the following for their super art: CMW, SarahKay, CC OTM, @senkoone, @SAULPELOSR, BOJITT, @Maleki, @osirisrain, @daniellepont, and RESAO. If I didn’t find your name on the mural so you weren’t included here – apologies! Let me know and I’ll add you!
