Monday, April 06, 2009

Susan Skilling: Paintings

Susan Skilling... City Shaped Like A Dagger (2009, Watercolor on Maidstone paper). From the exhibition Susan Skilling: Paintings at Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, WA. "...Susan Skilling's paintings are spare and elegant meditations on such widely varied subjects as Tibetan mandalas, plant forms, and slices of rocks, geodes and crystal. Often the work is geometrical but, even then, an organic sensitivity pervades the formal choices made by the artist. Along with artists like Morris Graves or Anne Appleby, Skilling's choices of imagery, color and content lead her in the pursuit of the sublime.
Painting with mineral based gouache paint, some of it handmade by the artist, Skilling creates a dense layering of subtly nuanced color over a handmade Thai Thai mulberry paper surface. Her palette is somber and modest, with occasional highlights of brilliant, saturated color."

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