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Artist's statement
Artist’s statement: These paintings concern intellectual quiet. They are immediate, fresh, feral, quick, sensitive and silent. They are grounded, evolutionary and calm. Art is a private language. Speech codification (like bipedal locomotion) defines the human circumstance. The paintings are translations of that private language. Abrading sentiment from the technique turned blending of color into a whole new method. Scouring the surface of a painting forced the artist to “dissolve the romantic notion that suffering created the gap in which art takes place.” With nothing left to loose, she let go. “Liberate the doubt and restricted excitement and taste the difference.” The cumulative result of release was an increasingly deep and spacious quiet. Doubt and hope became wishful illusions. “Choose a habit and then try to break it. Just prior to resolution, the painting engages in adolescent rebellion and threatens to riot. Then there is an ecstatic release of tension in both of us. Silence announces completion of each painting.” The paintings are named after the artist’s ancestors. They were ordinary people who stayed alive in some pretty heroic circumstances. They bore at least one child and therefore she is alive now. Biography: Susan J. Sauerbrun’s work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Harvard University, Harvard Business School in Cambridge MA, Mobile Livre in Philadelphia and many private collections. She showed her work in such diverse locations as the Whitechapel Gallery in London and the Bronx Museum here in New York. She won not only the American Drawing Biennial but also the distinguished Pollock Krasner Award. She holds an MFA from Rutgers University, MGSA. She is a founder member and former board of London's ACME Housing Association and the ACME Gallery. She was an Artist in Residence at the Henry Street Settlement in Manhattan and the Longwood Arts Project in The Bronx. She lives in Ne
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