EFA STUDIO PROGRAM: Member Artists
Suzanne Song
I am interested in creating multifaceted dimensions that blur the boundary between illusion and reality. Through painting, I explore relationships between different elements see how they exist interdependently and in perceptual harmony. I am interested in the notions of duality and how they can be explored through spatial and perceptual means.
I have been working on a series of shaped paintings titled Poly-Grounds. The shapes are direct extractions of the marginal spaces delineated from my paintings. I often return to previous bodies of work to further break down and isolate out specific parts of the painting to transform and see them adapt to new conditions. By separating, I can see them in a new context and find other ways they can appear. Removed out of the picture plane, these shaped forms adopt new visual cues and invite new ways of seeing. These shaped canvases resonate with my site-specific installation works where trompe l’oeil techniques and perspective positioning come into play. The precise placement of shadows disrupts the flat picture plane and transforms the two-dimensional surface into an ambiguous field. The trompe l’oeil applications assert the paintings as an illusion while the Poly-Grounds shift and hover in actual space. Using simple modes of transformation - reflection, rotation, and perspectival play – I execute new spatial configurations that further my exploration with perceptual duality.
