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BRIMHALL FOODS INCORPORATED,
MEMPHIS, TN. USA
MR. PAUL AND DR. AUDRIA BLACK,
CORDOVA, TN. USA
MR. AND MRS. FRANK COTHAM,
MEMPHIS, TN. USA
MR. PATRICK COTHAM, MEMPHIS,
TN. USA
MS. RACHEL COTHAM, MEMPHIS,
TN. USA
MS. BETH POWER, COLUMBUS, OH.
USA
MS. STEPHANIE POWER, COLUMBUS,
OH. USA
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Artist Statement for Susan Wilson
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As an artist, I find myself in a constant mental processing and reprocessing of images and impressions formed by an endless array of visual and emotional stimuli. I am an artist and more importantly~I am a traveler~my art an exploration of myself translated into forms of intense color, texture, and divisions of space. The journey unfolds into a more compelling concept of grids amid juxta-positioning of richly textured geometric planes, which emerge from atmospheric fields of color. The grid compels me, perhaps because of the dichotomy established between the abstraction of the conceptual and the rigidity of the image. Personal reflection has lead to a realization that key elements are necessary in my consideration that a finished piece satisfies my aesthetic and emotional involvement. The color choices, the arrangement of spatial relationships, the textural interest, and the thin layering of oil glazes, are key technical consideration in my work. Emotional involvement and establishing dichotomies are important to the conceptual development of my work. Dichotomous elements within each piece seek to mirror emotions in contrasts of temperature, texture, palette and form. Clearly, I rely on the tools that are pleasing to me and satisfy these needs visually. Fiber and decorative papers have become an integral part of my paintings. My concentration on elements of collage and mixed media as a means to achieving the textural interest in my work has intensified. The vivid coloration and tactile surface qualities of fabric and fiber lend themselves to my aesthetic. My palette is transforming into more somber, richer and complex tones than before; metallic leafs replacing the vivid jeweled hues in earlier work. The German and Abstract Expressionists remain especially influential, in particular Wassily Kandinsky, Edvard Munch, and Mark Rothko. Their insights into the use of color, form and spatial arrangements remain inspirational. Perhaps part of the mystique that attracted me to their style and theories is that kinship of shared mental processes. Ideas are borne as swirling flashes of vivid, pulsating color. Dreams, impressions, and emotional attachments are recorded as shapes of color that reverberate in my mind and emerge as a personal language in my work; an ongoing process of abstractions of myself. My paintings represent an alter ego, expressing the same dichotomy as my moods: the contrast of the warm/cool and of the smooth/rough. The paintings and surface elements are the sense of order; a device for reorganization of thoughts, and a channeling of the energies that accompany periods of mental abstraction. Each painting forms a piece of a topographical framework of my thoughts and impressions, as they become a form of self portraiture.
~Susan Wilson, artist
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