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Sharpe“r” Images A PHYSICIAN ARTIST SHARES BEAUTY, HARMONY AND HOPE THROUGH HER WORK
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Wri t t en by Ma r l e n e Wu st- S mi t h, M . D.
or probably the first time in history, the work of a practicing American physician artist has been accepted to the prestigious International Contemporary Art Fair in Paris. Dr. Sharpe’s artwork will also be showcased at the International Art Fair in Luxembourg (LuxExpo The Box: September 1719, 2021) and Brussels (Expo Center: November 26-28, 2021). This doctor is ON FIRE! Her creations were recently shown in Milan, Italy at the end of March (International Art Exhibition GAIA by the M.A.D.S Gallery) and will be included as part of the Market Art & Design Hamptons Show from August 12-15. Her art was accepted to the New York City Art Expo in November but Dr. Sharpe hasn’t definitively accepted that opportunity as of yet because she has 3 International Art
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Fairs in Europe later this year. She was recently featured in Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global and Authority Magazine. Most amazing of all? Dr. Sharpe continues to see patients in her office. These events have typically each drawn 20,000+ visitors from all over the world in past years. Dr. Susie Sharpe is a respected physician with 25 years of medical practice who is also a celebrated artist. Her path has been anything but straightforward or smooth. Dr. Sharpe’s extraordinary journey is inspiring! Growing up in Korea, she always excelled in art and in academics. Her dream was to become an artist and to study abroad in Paris. When she was 16, her parents decided to emigrate to the United States. Without speaking any English, she faced a great deal of hardship including language, social barriers and poverty.
Choosing Medicine Over Art She gave up her dream of becoming an artist, and instead chose to pursue a medical career. She wanted the security of being able to support herself in a a career that would help people directly. For the next two decades she buried herself in books, graduating from Wesleyan University with a degree in Chemistry, and then graduating from Yale Medical School with her M.D., followed by a residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, all while learning English and working to pay for her education. During those twenty years, she became a very successful internal medicine physician in Seattle, Washington and then settled in Missouri where she remains, while raising two gifted children. While she felt fulfilled and loved her medical practice and family, she
