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 scarf designs from them. Born under a lucky star, Aurinko has also been fortunate to meet others who shared her vision and 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
Photographer, writer and curator Susan Aurinko has shown her work in France, Italy and India, as well as in the US. Her exhibition entitled STILL POINT INDIA opened at Think Art Gallery in Chicago, then traveled to Kriti Gallery in Varanasi, India and is now available as a book. In May of 2017, Aurinko’s Searching for Jehanne – The Joan of Arc Project opened as a solo exhibition at Loyola University Museum of Art, is now traveling, and is also available as a book. Aurinko’s work appears on the covers of many books including The Stranger Among Us, Scar Tissue, Slut Lullabies, My Sister’s Continent, Blessed, Bound and Broken, and others. Four of her photographs are included in the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s permanent collection as well as the permanent collections of Loyola University Museum of Art, The Union League Club of Chicago and private collections in France, Italy, India, the UK, Monaco, and across the US. Aurinko is represented by Chicago’s ALMA Gallery, and by Kriti Gallery in India. As a curator, she has created scores of exhibitions over the last 25 years in a variety of venues including FLATFILE galleries, which she founded and owned from 2000-2009. Aurinko is also a writer and reviewer for Newcity Magazine and a columnist for Classic Chicago Magazine, where My Silk Roads, her monthly column, often addresses the origin stories of LensFlair Editions’ silk scarves.
To Wear With Everything…Or Nothing Else
LensFlair Editions scarves are wearable limited fine art. Art is in every thread that makes up the delicious silk and beautiful designs. My work owes a great deal to the inspiration of both street art and fine art, which is why I chose to use some of Chicago’s fabulous murals and paintings as backdrops for our images (and the video.) I want to thank the following street artists for their super art: BOJITT, CMW, SarahKay, CC OTM, @senkoone, @SAULPELOSR, @Maleki, @osirisrain, @daniellepont and RESAO. If you aren’t included here, I didn’t find your name on the mural – apologies! Let me know and I’ll add you! I also thank all the artists in our personal collection, whose work forms the background of many of the newer scarves – John Himmelfarb, Justus Roe, Mary Jane Duffy, Pooja Pittie, David Noguchi, Roger Brown and so many others.
