From Freeform To Controlled And Back Paintings by Susan Shup

26 November '15 - 16 January '16

Gallery Galerie Louis Gendre, Chamalières has announced their forthcoming exhibition premiering artist Susan Shup's series of paintings entitled "From Freeform to Controlled and Back". Susan Shup is an American artist who has lived and worked in Paris since the 1980’s. She mixes personal historical elements with those of art and pop culture, like rock music and fashion, to create her witty and vibrant paintings.

Often begun with landscape in mind, the large colour fields that she creates are influenced by American abstract expressionism, American Indian art, especially Navaho, and French graphic art from the beginning of the last century. In her language paintings, she transcribes words and texts directly from the oil paint tube onto canvas, often covering the entire surface, like in Asian calligraphic painting. Her work is a clever mix and she alternates with complete freedom between figuration, abstraction, and language painting. Susan Shup uses language in a dada-like “out of context” way, where the words are treated abstractly, but she also likes telling stories in her paintings.