Biography Born and raised in Germany, Suse Lowenstein received her fine arts degree from Werkkunstschule fur Textile Grafik & Werbung, Germany in 1964. She immigrated to the United States when she was 20, pursuing a career in decorative textile design, and then as a fine arts painter. She began scupting exclusively in 1975, using foam, steel, fiberglass, synthetic stone and bronze, and various plastics resin such as epoxy and polyester. Her work has been featured in many major journals and magazines such as Architectural Record, House Beautiful, Artspeak and People magazine. She has also appeared on Good Morning America, Inside Edition, the Discovery Channel, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, and the Lifetime channel.

Artist Statement "The portrayal of the human body has always been the most intriguing challenge in my work. I am fascinated by its ability to express the human spirit with all its complexities and emotions." My scupture in progress, DARK ELEGY, portrays the bodies of women at the very moment when they learn of their most painful loss: that of their child or spouse. These innocent victims were all passengers aboard Pan Am Flight 103 when a terrorist bomb exploded at 31,000 feet, killing all 259 passengers as well as 11 people on the ground in the small Scottish village of Lockerbie. Among the victims were 35 Syracuse University students returning home from a semester abroad in London. My 21-year old son, Alexander, was one of them. This was one of the largest terrorist attack against American civilians in U.S. history.

What makes my sculpture, DARK ELEGY, unique is the fact that this tragedy is portrayed by me, an insider, a participant rather than someone on the outside looking in. I find it important to record the scope of this tragedy for the generations to come. I hope that this statement will stand as a reminder not only of one of this nation's darkest moments, but also of what blind hatred leaves in its wake.
My hope is that the viewers of my sculpture will be drawn into understanding its full depth and experience the power of the emotions portrayed in these bodies of stone: realizing our fragility. In an instant we can lose that which is most precious to us.
Syracuse University suffered a terrible loss of 35 students. Aside from gratitude I therefore feel a sense of "rightness" that DARK ELEGY will be on prominent exhibit on the Syracuse campus for the upcoming school year.