1. Biography

2. Style

3. Exhibitions and Works
     Recent Solo Exhibitions    What Follows Here (2017)    Enough is Plenty (2013)    Seeing Things (2012)   The Memory Store (2010)    Examples of Works    721 (The day's noise)    The Wheel (2011)    377 (Derrymore march, Co. Kerry, Ireland)  

4. References

5. External links

Caporael's painting show a closely observation of natural world and her attempts to define and control scientific and cultural factors in her works.^[4] Her works usually very conceptual on both contents and its names, and some of them are related to her personal experience.

Biography

Now she lives and works in Lakeville with her husband, novelist Bruce Murkoff.^[9]

Style

Caporael's inspiration comes from the close observation of the natural word and shows her attempt to define and control the scientific and cultural factors in the world. Her paintings usually related to trees, chemical elements, water, ice, time and place memory, which is a joint result of her observation and research.^[10] By examining the relationship between those different natural elements, Caporael's works also reflect her focus on temporal beauty.^[11] In her exhibition in 1998 at Richard Gray Gallery, Caporael showed her attempt to link literature and science to her painting and process that she read poems and chose shapes that she feels kinship and represent by painting.^[12]

As the comments from The New York Time, "Caporael's painting are a curious mix of the aesthetic and the conceptual... the paintings are sensuous and lyrical as well as rigorously formal." Her works both display and invoke a discipline of thought.^[13]

The composition of her works always based on the idea of less-is-more, which means she only expresses things with a shorthand of simple lines and strokes and gives them titles with numbers as well as brief travel notes on the checklist, without any hint of time and space.^[14]

Caporael's personal experience also helped the creation of different paintings. She loves road trip very much and she had covered about 30,000 miles in her lifetime, and then she created about 12 paintings based on her most recent-country excursion.^[15]

Exhibitions and Works

After her first show in 1984, Caporael had many solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in her 30-year career. Her works are exhibited in many major museum collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; the Los Angeles County Museum of art, Los Angeles, CA; the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; The San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; the Honolulu Museum of Art, Honululu, HI; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, and so on.^[16]

Recent Solo Exhibitions

From 2010 to 2017, Suzanne Caporael's solo exhibition were all held at AMERINGER| McENERY| YOHE.

What Follows Here (2017)

In the depiction of landscapes, she invested the aesthetic sense of minimalist. In this exhibitions, work No. 719 was painted in large size with a series of cool blue, colors, it shows the sense of homage to the architect Diana Balmori and her work on phytoremediation. NO. 720 was inspired by Caporael's friend, who is a NASA scientist and his daily update on discover of an oil leak that has persisted for over 12 years.^[17]

Enough is Plenty (2013)

All of works are in small size and in the form of collage. They represent Caporael's interest in the integration of visual cues as the premise of perception. The works show a process from a single visual cue to a multiplicity of cues. She believed her works can encourage the viewer to take up the beholder's share.^[18]

Seeing Things (2012)

Paintings in this exhibition are related to Caporael's travel experience when she drove the car on a steep hill. Since those works are really conceptual, viewers are challenged on their recognition and preconceptions. Those painting are very unique, each painting contains an honesty of purpose of its own.^[19]

The Memory Store (2010)

In this exhibition, Caporael showed her works that based on her series of road trip in America. For Caporael, the United States became a country she regarded as "an impenetrable abstraction". Those paintings represent the sensation of futility and the pleasure of the effort to hold on to recollections. The special arrangement was in the purpose of showing the idea of procedural distance. The physical contradiction between hard edges and subtle erosion of boundaries in the painting encouraged viewers to imagine their own memory store.^[20]

Examples of Works

721 (The day's noise)

It was painted in 2016, she bravely used bright yellows and pinks against the light-gray background. Shapes and line seems to create a sense of shadows at night in this painting. ^[21]

The Wheel (2011)

This work relates to her research about star charts in 1998, which arranged in rough grids on gray and black backgrounds and shows the idea of both unearthly and mathematical. 13 years later, in The Wheel, shows a circle with black, mint and dried-blood red, and shows the sense of cyborg, man-made and machine-enhanced.^[22]

377 (Derrymore march, Co. Kerry, Ireland)

It is a significant work that exhibited on Suzannne Caporael's show "Littoral Drift" at Artemis Greenberg Van Doren in 2002. The painting is composed by different color block with hectic imbricated reds, oranges, pale pinks and few bright greens. Those bright and vivid color suggest that the range of colors owes more to sensibility than to nature. ^[23]

References

External links

Official website http://www.suzannecaporael.com

Suzanne Caporael at AMERINGER | McENERY | YOHE http://www.milesmcenery.com/artists/suzanne-caporael/featured-works?view=slider

Suzanne Caporael at Richard Gray Gallery

http://www.richardgraygallery.com/artists/suzanne-caporael/a-exhibitions

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