Sue Carlson

Sue Carlson_ Indigo Pre-Dawn_ oil_pencil on linen_Landscape_Minimalism

2020

Sue Carlson's first artistic training was as a classical musician. European musical language from Baroque to Contemporary is intricate, complex and express...

In this ninth decade of life, and as a working artist for nearly70 years, Suzanne Benton has become interested in the concept of Late Style as described by the literary theorist Edward Said. “Each of us can supply evidence of late works, which crown a lifetime of aesthetic endeavor,” Matisse had it with his renowned paper cuts. While nearly blind, Monet created the water lily paintings as his final legacy to the history of art.  Benton's Late Style arrived as a surprise during the Covid pandemic. The resultant aloneness from sheltering in place brought her to an uncanny level of solitude that only painting could voice. She reached for the purest of colors, and entered a celebratory world to create the Neo-Transcendental paintings titled All About Color. The disappeared narrative came as a surprise. It had been the mainstay of the masks and mask tale performances, monoprints and paintings. This time though, the artist needed to bring a vibrancy to canvas, and to make tangible this sense of sheer essence that had pressed into her inner self in that time of stillness. Well educated in color by John Ferren, the abstract expressionist painter who’d taught the year’s color study at Queen College. The sensitivity developed further through four lengthy art-working journeys to India, starting in 1976-77, continuing with a 1992-1993 Fulbright, and additional South Asia residencies in 1995, and 2011. Those and others in Africa brought an ever more attuned palette to decades of monoprints with Chine collé that featured imagery from world culture, as well as her Americana of 19th and 20th century women writers, educators, suffragists, and feminists. These Late Style artworks explore the cosmic realm. Its deceptive simplicity reminds Benton of Buffie Johnson’s late work. She, an early celebrator of Great Goddess imagery turned to circles in her latter years. similarly, Benton had drawn on rich Goddess imagery since the 1970’s...

Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...

Seeking the Sound of Cobalt Blue is a series of larger paintings on 8 ply museum board and large sheets of rag paper and clayboard panels that have been created since the winter of 2...

Blue Minimalism is an original contemporary artwork realized by the Italian artist Giorgio Lo Fermo in 2020. Original Oil painting on canvas. Hand-signed and dated on the back. M...

Blue Landscape is an original abstract painting by Italian artist Marilina Marchica, created using pure pigment on high-quality paper. This unique piece belongs to her ongoing resear...

Mary Didoardo Blue Poem , 2024 oil on wood panel 30 x 30 in (dido118AP) Artist Statement In order to make a meaningful painting I have to establish form somewhere in the swirl of l...

Alison Berrett “Clearing Fog” Oil on canvas 40cm x 100cm. The soft pastel colours in this painting create a mysterious atmosphere. Inspired by the spring and autumn mists across the ...