Personal Path at the Ludwig Museum at the State Museum in St. Petersburg was the first show in Russia for artist Susan Swartz. More than 100 paintings from the early 2000s through to 2017 were included in the exhibition, which was curated by Dr. Dieter Ronte with the assistance of esteemed Russian art critic, Alexander Borovsky, and the Foundation for Art and Culture Bonn.
The abstract paintings of Susan Swartz are drawn from her personal experience of illness, healing, and integration with the natural world. At the same time, her works in Personal Path possess universality- they are not limited to one location on Earth, a single moment in time, or the experience of a single person. Swartz's introduction to the Russian art world reflects this, as her paintings lining the walls of the Marble Palace engage viewers from all over the world.
In the forward to the exhibition catalogue for Personal Path, Russian art critic Alexander Borovsky described the significance of Swartz's artwork: "The paintings transform and combine the experience of the artist's presence in nature, of personal contact with it - both of the sublime poetic variety, and of the everyday, almost automatic, tactile kind." Swartz challenges the viewer to reflect upon the ever-shifting dimensionality of human existence.