Suzan Obermeyer — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Sep 15

Sep 15 Suzan Obermeyer

Biography
Suzan received her MFA in 2015 from Plymouth University, UK. Since 2009, Suzan has shown Internationally. Suzan attended artist residencies in Berlin, NYC, Brooklyn, Italy and in Marfa, TX. During 2020 Suzan participated in a 10 weeks in a facilitated painting intensive at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO. In the spring of 2021 Suzan spent 20 days painting water surfaces on an island in French Polynesia. She works in different mediums ranging from printmaking and painting to installations and video. Suzan’s social practice includes building bridges between and among people from different Cultures. Preceding the pandemic Suzan organized an Art tour in and around Mexico City.

Artist Statement

Observing the natural world has become a philosophical lens. As I learn more about plants and the human perspective, I question assumptions about the social norms of desirability of species and varieties.

In my Botanicals and Pond Paintings, I explore rhythms in nature, color and imagination. Beyond that they are a pursuit of pushing my painting.The first 3 years I attempted to paint lotus, all of the pieces ended up underwater in the muck which nourishes the plant and makes a habitat for koi and insects. When my pieces did surface the water remained important.

In my Equine paintings, I continue to investigate the Domestic-Wild relationship. On one level the art works are artifacts of a process between artist, the materials and the natural chemicals laws of nature.

The work is looking at how we are essentially wild and live with in social and societal structures. The horse became a metaphor for the wild beauty, the ownership of them and how we’ve harnessed the strength of the horse for war and for agricultural advancement. On yet another level, I have juxtaposed a range of styles to make an art history jam; experimenting with nods of equine historical representation.

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