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... Read more
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.
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 welcomes you to attend the opening reception on
Saturday, September 13th from 6-8pm.
