Sue Kutosh is an artist living and working in New York City. She earned her BFA in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and her MA from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

In her black and white art, Kutosh has focused on the medium of graphite pencil, employing drawing as an end in itself, as opposed to treating it as a preparatory medium. The artist states that with these tools she endeavors to bring heightened reality to her compositions.

Kutosh also works in oil, creating paintings whose use of color is more "psychological than representational." The artist states, "I use color to elicit an emotional response; choices for which are made to suggest an exaggerated presence or an implied reality."

She refers to her work as "Fantasy Realism". The Fantasy is in the narrative aspect of her work, facilitated by the technical rendering of a situation or a single subject. This is achieved by employing all halftones between black and white to make her Fantasy the viewer's reality. The works represent people in actual situations- the poses, places and selections of which are based on her affection for the drama of halftones and the peculiarities of circumstance.

Her work has been featured in the books "New Art International", "Hollywood Babble", "The Lavender Screen" and "The Films of Jane Fonda". Profiles and reviews of her work have appeared in Allspice, Talent In Motion, Manhattan Arts International magazine, Artspeak, After Dark, and the Daily News. Sue Kutosh has also received an Artists Showcase Award from Manhattan Arts, Daler-Rowney USA Award from Pen and Brush Gallery, an Honorarium from the National Academy of Television and Sciences, and an Emmy Award for achievement in scenic contributions to "Sesame Street," on PBS.

Praise for Sue Kutosh

"Sue Kutosh achieves her glowing pencil effects by working differing densities of graphite over one another "as if glazing with paint" to create a wide and fluid range of halftones. Her fantasized realism sets her emotive concepts in a tonally luxurious field between the eye and the mind."
New Art International Book Art Review

"In her gem of a solo show at Pleiades Gallery, Sue Kutosh employs a graphite to create drawings that are complete statements, as finished and "finessed" as oil or acrylic paintings. Her drawing ability is impressive; her command of the medium makes for subtly modulated tonalities that can be compared to the delicate gradations in Chinese ink paintings for their ability to make black, white and full range of grays in between suggest a full spectrum of hues."
Sean Simon, Artspeak