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Susan Brearey
Mountain Bluebird
2012

About the Item

Oil on wood painting Signed, dated and inscribed on verso: Susan Brearey / Mountain Bluebird / 3 / 2012 Born in 1964, painter Susan Brearey is known for her unique, iconic depiction of animals. In Brearey’s works, primal, totemic images take the place of the photorealistic visual details found in some other works of wildlife art. Animals become primeval shapes, rudimentary and almost featureless, set against abstract surfaces. Brearey’s evocative approach was inspired in large part by the cave paintings at Lascaux, France. Brearey first saw the paintings in the mid-1980s as a college student, an experience that turned her into a serious painter. The primitive imagery is further enriched by Brearey’s experiments with texture. Brearey has used gesso, mixtures of oil and wax, found materials like leaves and bark, and, most recently, patterns of wood grain to give each work a unique surface. My work is about seeing animals and the environments in which they live. I am inspired by the peace, beauty, and solitude I find within the experience of moving through wilderness areas, studying and observing the habitats, plants, and creatures with whom we share the planet. It is in these places that I find the sources for my work. I am often struck by the fleeting instant of a deer running into view, or the powerful presence of a bear whose terrain I have wandered near as a fortunate encounter, an encounter where I may begin to understand the often unseen parts of the habitat and within specific human-imposed frameworks. These frameworks come from my awareness of human and industrial growth as having a huge impact upon the ecosystems surrounding us and supporting us. For me, animals endure our presence and attentions with a bemused tolerance and patience, so often lacked by our own species. Susan Brearey A native of rural New England, Brearey attended college at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. An art teacher at the Putney School in Vermont, she holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design. Brearey’s paintings have been the subject of numerous solo exhibits in Seattle, Washington; West Bretton, England, Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Martha’s Vineyard; Orlando, Florida; and Providence, Rhode Island, among other places. Her works have also been numerous group exhibits, including Post-Pastoral: New Images of the New England Landscape at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art and the Clarke Galleries’ IV Centuries of Birds in Painting, Sculpture, and Fine Prints. Her works are in the collections of Nashville, Tennessee’s Cheekwood Museum of Art; the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont; the Putney School, Putney, Vermont; the Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Meditech Corporation, Westwood, Massachusetts. In 1993, Brearey won the Cheekwood National Contemporary Painting Competition. facebooktwitterinstagram New York © Gerald Peters Gallery Santa Fe facebooktwitterinstagram

Creator:
Susan Brearey
Creation Year:
2012
Dimensions:
Height: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)Width: 13.25 in (33.66 cm)
Medium:
Oil,Wood Panel
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Santa Fe, NM
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU3563962943

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