Susan Bennerstrom

Elements

June 6-28, 2008

Susan Bennerstrom presents works completed during and after her stay as a Returning Fellow to the Ballinglen Foundation in Ireland. The work falls into three subject areas: leaf portraits, architectural details from historic Abbey ruins (Rathfran, Moyne, & Rosserk), and lamb bone portraits. "The shapes, voids, colors, textures, even the structural purpose of the old stone seemed not unlike the shapes, colors, and purpose of the bones." The elegant drawing and evocative handling of light are common to all three image groups.

• Recent exhibitions: Tent.Interior.Leaf, October 2007; Within, October 2005; River Bed, May 2004

Publications: Susan Bennerstrom
• Monograph Hard-bound. 80 pages. 70 color illustrations. Published in 2000. $20 + tax.
• Deluxe edition with hardbound slipcase and original etching (ed. of 150). $250 + tax.

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Tent.Interior.Leaf

October 2007

Joined by a shared palette and medium, Susan Bennerstrom’s new oil pastels cluster into three subject areas. The interiors are still "...specifically about the still atmosphere within a well-defined space..." A second group of images reflects a reaction to the first. "I wanted the awnings to rush out into the wind and air." The bright tents and awnings are active and abstract. They in tern, allowed for a series of leaf portrait pairs which are both formal studies and relational suggestions. "The leaf paintings also refer back to the interiors, as the point of interest is as much about light and atmosphere as it is about the objects depicted." The twenty five panel pieces range from medium to small in scale.

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