Woodward Gallery hosts Susan Breen ~ Remedy ~ |
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| Saturday, 20 September 2008 04:42 |
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New York City - Woodward Gallery is proud to open the Fall Art Season with Susan Breen: Remedy. Susan Breen’s Remedy explores our contemporary sense of social, psychological, and physical maladies by imagining the transformation of various ‘ailments,’ to a visual representation of what might, in theory, relieve that state of being. On exhibition through 1 November, 2008. Having radically expanded her palette from earlier monochromatic oils with this current series’ richly colorful tones, Breen’s paintings examine heartache, fear of flight, insomnia, political disillusionment, hiccups, delusions of grandeur, and other afflictions, through the eye of abstract imagery. The majority of Breen’s compositions are grounded in symmetry, having derived broadly from Mandalic symbology. Breen’s interests in botany, physics, Eastern philosophy and medicine complicate notions of easy, logical order and balance. This combination has helped Breen’s work to possess both a seeming openness of form, and an absolute rigor in execution.Remedy expresses possibility and hope where neither comes too freely. In this remarkable series, the notion of affliction is simply a kind of potential existing in a latent, raw state. It lives beneath each panel, on which the patterned and abstract restorative power of Breen’s stunning palette and conceptual sense of game is rendered with force and great beauty. Woodward Gallery Established 1994 133 Eldridge Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10002 Phone: 212.966.3411 Fax: 212.966.3491 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
