Our latest Quirk Gallery exhibit, “Constant Anomalies” by Suzanna Fields, consists of hyper-intricate paintings created using layers processes. On view February 16 - April 16.
“In the last three years, I have thought often about the organic and artificial landscapes that coexist in our modern realities. We live increasingly abstracted lives, while the actualities of the natural world, from the micro to the macro, become more problematic. These paintings are my most hyper-intricate to date, using layered processes that pay homage to the precarious systems that surround us, while visually bringing the ground and the object in the paintings closer together. Taking inspiration from my explorations of the Rockfish Gap and the Blue Ridge, I let the physical experience of painting inform the content of the work. Meanwhile, the flood of images that fill all our screens each day also seeps in too. Combining the organic, the decorative, and even the grotesque, the work merges our idealized and mediated notions of nature with the complex experience of actually being in nature. In this way, the work holds the contradictions between the foreignness and the familiarity of the natural world and how it persistently weaves its way into our subconscious experience.”
– Suzanna Fields
Suzanna Fields grew up in Abingdon, Virginia. She exhibits her work regularly and maintains studios in Richmond and Afton, Virginia. She received her BA from Mary Baldwin College and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Honors include the Studios at Key West and Virginia Center for the Arts residencies, a Bethesda Painting Award, a Liquitex Purchase Prize, a Style Weekly Women in the Arts Award, and Trawick Prize finalist. Her work is in private and public collections including the Eleanor Wilson Museum, Capital One, Philip Morris, Retail Data, Bill and Pam Royall, Kathie and Stephen Markel, and Shepard and Amanda Fairey.
