Wild Red Horses, 2021, collage, acrylic, thread, wood, 11" x 7"

 

SUSAN NEWMARK

ERASURE
 

NOVEMBER 2 - DECEMBER 21, 2024
 

RECEPTION: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND, 4 - 6 PM

 

Figureworks is pleased to present Susan Newmark's recent series entitled Erasure, acknowledging the world's fragility and constant threat of catastrophic events throughout history. This is Susan's fourth solo exhibition at Figureworks and expanding upon her signature collage format, she has cut this work into strips and woven them into symbolic early weaving and narrative scrolls.

 

Susan says of this series, "My mixed media collages explore nature, place, memory, the human body, feminism, cultural traditions and erasure. I synthesize abstraction with photographic imagery, drawing and found papers, interpret poetry visually, and research history. I work in an additive process with interwoven, fractured webs of vision that reflect our packed and anxious urban environment.  I am concerned with the erasure and growing extinction of our natural and human environments and the destruction of landscapes and cultural groups due to ignorance, cruelty, and genocide.

 

The Brooklyn Museum of Art has also selected a work from this series for The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition in celebration of their 100th year anniversary. It is on view through January 26, 2025.

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