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Susan Doyle
Statement
This work is about the experience of a painting as literally and figuratively dependent on the vantage point of the viewer. I use the subtly formed surface of the painting as an element that enhances and influences the information painted, demanding an "in-person" viewing of it. The undulation of the surface changes the two-dimensional information perceptually as the viewer moves about the canvas, much as the personal past of the viewer informs his or her subjective reading of it. This work cannot be reproduced adequately nor be understood without a personal encounter with it.The grid is the format of relativism i.e. the means of explaining-with no meaning of its own; an atemporal, manmade construct. The stains are the singular mark of change itself; embodying time and fluidity, in uncontrolled essential polarity to the grid.
At issue in the structure of the work though not depicted per se, is the ubiquitous mediation by which we live i.e. the alarming degree to which mediated versions of reality have supplanted the first person experience. We are emotionally and intellectually managed by the editorial embedded in the slick graphics and prepackaged information we consume in every hour of every day. The result is a profound distance from our selves as sensate, unique, and poignantly temporary visitors on this planet. We choose to live in a greenhouse in the middle of the most exotic of all gardens. We will avoid a thunderstorm or two- but at what lamentable cost.
Profile
Education
1998 M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design
1981 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design
Solo Painting Exhibitions:
1999 Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, FL
1995 Kristina Wasserman Gallery, Providence, RI
1994 Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, FL
1993 Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, FL
1992 Sailor's Valentine Gallery, Nantucket, MA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2001 Boston International Fine Art Show, Boston, MA
2001 Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2000 Santa Monica Junior College, Santa Monica, CA
1998 New England Realists, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
1997 Come Shining, St. Mark's Place, New York City, NY
1997 Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1995 Nudes, a thematic group show, Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, FL
1994 Klostergalerie, Furstenfeldbruck, Germany
Awards/Honors/Publications
1998 Award of Excellence; Rhode Island School of Design
1998 Achievement Award: Excellence in Graduate Printmaking
1997 Florida Design Magazine, Volume 8, No. 3. p. 169
