
749 (bank), 2018, Oil on linen, 60 x 84 inches, 152.4 x 213.4 cm, MMG#30993
726 (untitled, P), 2017, Oil on linen, 48 x 36 inches, 121.9 x 91.4 cm, MMG#30449
725 (once), 2017, Oil on linen, 30 x 22 inches, 76.2 x 55.9 cm, MMG#30975
730 (man), 2017, Oil on linen, 30 x 20 inches, 76.2 x 50.8 cm, MMG#30976
728 (Picturing Earth), 2017, Oil on linen, 54 x 78 inches, 152.4 x 213.4 cm, MMG#29785
735 (honey), 2018, Oil on linen, 30 x 20 inches, 76.2 x 50.8 cm, MMG#30977
736 (room), 2018, Oil on linen, 30 x 20 inches, 76.2 x 50.8 cm, MMG#30978
738 (book), 2018, Oil on linen, 30 x 22 inches, 76.2 x 55.9 cm, MMG#30979
737 (paper), 2018, Oil on linen, 30 x 22 inches, 76.2 x 55.9 cm, MMG#30980
739 (hunt), 2018, Oil on linen, 48 x 36 inches, 121.9 x 91.4 cm, MMG#30982
727 (near), 2017, Oil on linen, 54 x 42 inches, 137.2 x 106.7 cm, MMG#30984
741 (march), 2018, Oil on linen, 54 x 42 inches, 137.2 x 106.7 cm, MMG#30985
743 (sign), 2018, Oil on linen, 54 x 42 inches, 137.2 x 106.7 cm, MMG#30986
744 (rich), 2018, Oil on linen, 54 x 42 inches, 137.2 x 106.7 cm, MMG#30987
751 (pour), 2018, Oil on linen, 54 x 42 inches, 137.2 x 106.7 cm, MMG#30988
750 (letter), 2018, Oil on linen, 54 x 42 inches, 137.2 x 106.7 cm, MMG#30989
745 (blue, 1), 2018, Oil on linen, 66 x 48 inches, 167.6 x 121.9 cm, MMG#30990
746 (blue, 2), 2018, Oil on linen, 66 x 48 inches, 167.6 x 121.9 cm, MMG#30991
747 (blue, 3), 2018, Oil on linen, 66 x 48 inches, 167.6 x 121.9 cm, MMG#30992
740 (school), 2018, Oil on linen, 60 x 90 inches, 152.4 x 228.6 cm, MMG#30994
742 (leer), 2019, Oil on linen, 54 x 42 inches, 137.2 x 106.7 cm, MMG#31047
729 (Niagra scow), 2017, Oil on linen, 54 x 78 inches, 137.2 x 198.1 cm, MMG#29786
709 (The widow's mite), 2016, Oil on linen, 30 x 22 inches, 76.2 x 55.9 cm, MMG#28694
706 (Poplar archive), 2016, Oil on linen, 30 x 22 inches, 76.2 x 55.9 cm, MMG#28773
720 (Read the spill), 2016, Oil on linen, 60 x 84 inches, 152.4 x 213.4 cm, MMG#28707
711 (Hush, mute), 2016, Oil on linen, 30 x 22 inches, 76.2 x 55.9 cm, MMG#28697
714 (Sun, moon, kiss, eclipse), 2016, Oil on linen, 30 x 22 inches, 76.2 x 55.9 cm, MMG#28700
713 (Sitka eddy), 2016, Oil on linen, 30 x 22 inches, 76.2 x 55.9 cm, MMG#28699
719 (D. Balmori island), 2016, Oil on linen, 60 x 90 inches, 152.4 x 228.6 cm, MMG#28704
722 (Portage, noun or verb), 2016, Oil on linen, 54 x 84 inches, 137.2 x 213.4 cm, MMG#28705
692 (At Jullo Callo, landscape after Darger), 2014, Oil on linen, 54 x 72 inches, 137.2 x 182.9 cm, MMG#22288
693 (The plan), 2014, Oil on linen, 36 x 48 inches, 91.4 x 121.9 cm, MMG#22289
696 (Glimpse, Valley Farm Rd.), 2014, Oil on linen, 36 x 48 inches, 91.4 x 121.9 cm, MMG#22291
Suzanne Caporael Studio, 2019, Lakeville, CT
SUZANNE CAPORAEL was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1949. Her work derives from close observation of the natural world and the attempts—scientific and cultural—to define and control it. Observation coupled with research has resulted in groups of paintings related to trees, chemical elements, water, ice, time and place memory.
As noted in The New York Times, “Caporael’s paintings are a curious mix of the aesthetic and the conceptual...the paintings are sensuous and lyrical as well as rigorously formal.” Caporael continues to create paintings that both display and invoke a discipline of thought.
The artist earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA. She had her first show at thirty-five, when then Director Paul Schimmel debuted her work at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (now the Orange County Museum of Art). She was awarded a National Endowment grant in painting in 1986, and has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2009 she was a guest artist-in-residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. The artist’s prints are published in collaboration with Tandem Press, Madison, WI.
Her work is represented in many major museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; de Young Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, among others.
Suzanne Caporael lives and works in Lakeville, CT with her husband, novelist Bruce Murkoff.
The New York Studio School presents Known: Unknown, an exhibition that brings together power players of painting today and emerging creators of tomorrow. We invited a select group of prominent artists to participate in this exhibition, with an added twist—each invited artist chose one emerging or lesser known artist to also be included in the show.
Opening Reception: Thu, November 01, 2018, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
The FLAG Art Foundation presents The Times from June 1 – August 11, 2017, on its 9th floor gallery. The exhibition uses The New York Times as its point of departure and features over 80 artists, artist duos, and collectives who use the “paper of record” to address and reframe issues that impact our everyday lives.
Reading The New York Times is embedded in many people’s daily routines. This chronicle of geopolitical and local issues, tragedies, human interest stories, and trends in culture, serves as both a source of inspiration and medium for artists to assert their perspectives on the state of the world. In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, where news media was deemed the “the enemy of the people,” and The New York Times directly attacked and labeled as “fake news,” FLAG began developing an exhibition examining how seminal artists, such as Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, Lorraine O’Grady, Fred Tomaselli, and others, who have used and been inspired by this newspaper in their practice. To give voice to a larger community, FLAG put out an open call for artist submissions that received 400+ proposals from around the world, and accounts for over half of the artists featured in the exhibition.
Opening reception: Saturday 29 July, 5-8pm
The paintings in this exhibition, SITE/SIGHT, are rooted in direct observation and are influenced by each artist’s perceptual practice and long-cultivated process of close study. Falling along a continuum between abstraction and representation they evoke a strong sense of place in the everyday world. Although we may not recognize the specific motif inferred (landscape, night sky, city, etc.) the authority of perception is tangible.
Sites, subjects, and methods of observation are critical to each artist’s visual language: planted fields, elevations seen from an airplane window, gradations of color in a sky reflected on a watery plane, shapes glanced at through apertures between buildings, or the puzzle of shapes in a tapestry-like world are some of the inspirations for the paintings shown here. Often the focus is upon a fragment of a larger subject or on an aspect removed from its larger context, adding an interesting ambiguity to the work.
Suzanne Caporael, Martha Diamond, Sharon Horvath, Jacqueline Gourevitch, Ellen Kozak, and Joyce Robins are painters in whose work abstraction conveys the resonance of close observation and place.
by Will Heinrich
Suzanne Caporael’s latest paintings — she numbers them sequentially, with the current show’s being in the low 700s — are divided into flat, irregular blocks of deep color with slightly blurry edges. The blocks themselves might pass for recessive Rothkos, pulling in a viewer’s gaze instead of glowing out to meet it. But the compositions as a whole look more like rice paddies at night. They’re distinctly horizontal in effect despite hanging on the wall, and the narrow boundaries between colors have all the silent force of property lines.
Suzanne Caporael to produce new work at Tandem Press, University of Wisconsin-Madison in Summer 2015 as well as at Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico in Summer 2015.
Rod Penner's small, meticulously painted landscapes of Texas and its environs, all from the last three years, pack a hefty amount of big sky and small town into their abbreviated formats. Penner pictures cafes (including a beautiful one showing a neon "Mexican Food" sign's reflection shimmering green on the rain-slicked surface of the parking lot), as well as convenience stores, laundromats, garages, houses along highways, nondescript main streets, and strip malls. Numerous gas stations are shown that might or might not be abandoned.
There are worse things you could do with The New York Times than cut blocks of color out of its photos and advertisements and glue them together, as Suzanne Caporael does, into elegant, postcard-size, abstract collages. In 028 (like calculus), five superimposed sections make a neat white frame around a vertical bicolor of violet-black and pale blue. A golden yellow curver sinks down from the top toward a white square with a muddy purple corner folded in. A slightly muddled edge above the darker half, three round bumps at the bottom, faint white lines where the framing newsprint covers another piece's edge, some type on the verso just barely showing through, and the partial date - the piece was made this year, sometime after the 10th of a month ending in "y" - all pull together, as curated accidents and gracefully understated decisions.
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Suzanne Caporael at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, through Dec. 22 The various ways we mediate our world have long been the concern of painter Suzanne Caporael, who can give the most esoteric taxonomies for processing nature, in particular, a lyrical twist. Her means are whatever it takes - be that abstraction or representation, leaving her "signature style" tricky to summarize. In her multifaceted show "Seeing Things," she considers the gap between perception and cognition in angular and gridded abstractions, delicate landscapes and veiled allusions to such masterpieces as Cezanne's portrait of his wife and Watteau's "Pierrot."
These small collages are composed by the painter as studies for her larger canvases, but it’s hard to imagine that their successors could trump them in terms of spontaneity or sheer joie de vivre. Made from pieces of newsprint, in saturated hues of magenta, lime, orange, and navy, they are winningly simple with a powerful graphic punch—the abstract cousins of Saul Bass’s posters circa “Anatomy of a Murder.” But that mod sixties vibe is belied by the newspaper dates; the oldest is from 2008. Through April 21.
Two exhibitions open this Thursday at Ameringer McEnery Yohe. Both of them merit your attention and attendance.
One of them features the work of Suzanne Caporael. "First and foremost, Caporael is a painter," says the gallery. "While maintaining a discrete distance from the art world in various rural havens, she has nonetheless earned herself a place in the field of contemporary painting. For nearly thirty years she has allowed her avid curiosity to guide her through a variety of disparate areas of study, most of which take two to five years of research and manifest as paintings while Caporael delves more deeply into her sources. These include eighty paintings representing thousands of miles of back roads traveled in the U.S. over a period of four years. Always remaining more allusive than descriptive, the work balances substance and subtlety with aesthetic rigor."
Featuring works by Suzanne Caporael
New York-based Caporael is an inveterate road tripper (having covered some 30,000 miles in her lifetime), and she used her most recent cross-country excursion as the basis for the 12 paintings on display here (all 2009 or ’10). Despite their highly abstract forms, the canvases, some of them fairly substantial in scale (the largest are 60 inches tall) and many with thickly painted surfaces, manage to convey Caporael’s journeys in a way that feels as fresh and honest as a lap-held diary.