Susan Dory creates abstract paintings which investigate issues of repetition, variation, and time. Her biomorphic and linear shapes congregate and reorganize in complex, structured patterns across a seemingly space-less field. By overlapping translucent shapes, she creates a layering effect that consequently serves as a visual document of time. This effect not only allows viewers to see through one shape and into another, it also creates a distinct, tactile quality to the pristine surfaces of her paintings. Dory has received both national and local awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Willard R. Espy Foundation Artist-in-Residence Fellowship and the Behnke Foundation’s Neddy Artist Fellowship.
Secret Cave of the Heart 3
Edition of 5
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I am fascinated by the grid in general as an overall substrate and support, it's ubiquity in the material world in everything from its slang reference as living outside of society (living off the grid), digital pixelization, weaving and fabric.