Sue COllier: Looking for Answers
Exhibition Dates: April 27 – may 22, 2021
Reception: Thursday, April 29, 5pm - 8pm
The Painting Center is pleased to present an exhibition of recent drawings and paintings by Sue Collier. The show includes two large-scale drawings (50” x 77” and 48” x 96”) in color pencil and a large tryptic (50” x 167”) in oil, as well as several small paintings from life, imagination, and memory completed over the last two years. This exhibit marks the gallery’s second for the Boston born artist and her first solo exhibition in the Main Gallery.
The figure is central to Collier’s work and is referenced everywhere, from an individual childhood memory to current mass migrations. She mixes these extreme ideas of personal to worldly, harmonious to chaotic, small-scale to large-scale, trusting her creative instinct to bring resolution. With an interest of exploring the figure in an outdoor context she typically surrounds them with trees, parks, paths and oceans.
“The paintings and drawings on view in this show, many of which were made during the pandemic, delve more profoundly into the sense of disquiet that permeates these older bodies of work.” (Carol Kino).
Sue Collier, a 2020 NYFA Fellow, has exhibited nationally and her work has been reviewed by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Art News, Art in America, and Art New England, among other publications. She is currently featured in the first online exhibition of Skowhegan School, Endless State, and USPS Art Project in Greenly Art Space, CA.
For more information, visit: www.suecollier.com
View interview with Painting Center member Sue Collier and guest artist Paula Heisen, moderated by Jo Ann Rothschild, is available at: https://vimeo.com/544682819
