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"Vanished"
oil on canvas
60" x 54"
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"Japanese Branches"
oil on canvas
60" x 56"
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"In the Darkness"
oil on canvas
60" x 56"
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"Gray Garden"
oil on canvas
60" x 54"
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"Night Garden"
oil on canvas
48" x 36"
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"Much Madness"
oil on canvas
72" x 60"
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"Thicket"
oil on canvas
60" x 54"
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"A Lavender Tea Set"
oil on canvas
12" x 14"
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"A Lavender Tea Set and Wren"
oil on canvas
12" x 14"
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"Jean's Lilacs"
oil on canvas
14" x 12"
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"Mrs. Dutton's Tea Cups"
oil on canvas
12" x 14"
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"Alighting"
oil on canvas
12" x 12"
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"Stacked Tea Cups and Wren"
oil on canvas
14" x 12"
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"Birds in a Field of Dots"
ink, conte crayon, on book page
15" x 11.5"
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"Bird Under a Cloud"
ink, conte crayon, on book page
16.5" x 11.5"
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"Soul"
ink, conte crayon, on book page
10.5" x 8"
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Chasing away the dark of mid-winter, we are pleased to present the warm idyllic vision of Susan Homer in her first solo exhibition in New York. Susan Homer is an unabashed romantic. Working with a free and painterly hand she creates lush scenes of overgrown gardens reminiscent of those visited in dreams. Contrasting thick brushwork with delicate passages, she obsessively works and reworks areas in her large scale oil paintings, building an all-over carpet of visceral texture. Referencing elements drawn from her elaborate rooftop garden and a range of other sources from Audubon prints to china patterns to Victorian greeting cards, she creates a world out of time, edenic and rich with nostalgia.
In her painted gardens, twining vines, showers of petals, and strange oversized blossoms tumble in fields of Tiffany blue and eternal summer. The sole inhabitants of these enchanted spaces are birds whose traces and activities provide an empathic portal allowing us to imagine our way into the paintings. They flit through these scenes enacting behaviors and dramas that are recognizably human - romancing, mating, and nesting, reminding us of the yearning complexity of our own lives.
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