Acrylic Paintings by Susan Lecky 

Susan Lecky - Now, Then And Forever, 2008
64 x 69 inches

Susan Lecky - A Bouquet of Silent Echoes
acrylic on canvas - 64 1/2 x 69 inches

Susan Lecky was born in Los Angeles, California in 1940. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Southern California in 1961.

She has exhibited extensively around the United States, including over 17 one-person exhibitions. She has shown in 32 invitational exhibitions, 37 national competitive exhibitions including the Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and over 43 regional competitions and has received 10 awards for her work.

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She has also had work in seven international exhibitions. She has paintings and works on paper in public and private collections throughout the United States.

Susan has been a visiting artist at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma in 1988 and 1999 and has given over 10 public lectures. She is listed in Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in American Women and the Dictionary of International Biography.

She participated in Decumano Secondo/Veronamerica 1997 with her work in Arts Nouveux in Verona and in 1997-98 at the Villa Carlotti, Caprino Veronese.

 

Statement

I am intrigued with the random and fixed patterning found in nature and how the intrusion of human-made forms interacts with these patterns.

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See more of Susan's work on her personal website at www.SusanLecky.com

I have personalized the natural forms in these paintings so that they hint at something real, but are not. Therefore the viewers, with their own background of visual experiences, will be sparked to associate memories and feelings with these shapes that are meaningful to them.

The geometric divisions become architectonic forces that push back and then forward on or amongst the patterned surface of the canvas. Thus a delicate interrelationship is established between the structured and organic elements which I hope will cause a dialogue between myself and the viewers ­

I present, through form and color, my feeling about man and nature, and the viewers are stimulated to bring, due to their own sensibilities, additional interpretations to these relationships.

I first investigated these ideas on a single panel format and expanded this search using triptych and six panel formats. The relationships between the forms are explored in the central panel and the two side or top and bottom panels; the center being micro; the sides or tops and bottoms being enlargements of the central forms; becoming macro.

These paintings are the result of this continuing investigation; everything is here, one can only see so much, what do we see, what do we feel?

Susan Lecky lives at
12116 Brookmeadow Lane,
Dallas, Texas 75218

phone: 214 342 0802
email. studios@koyote.com

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Images this page Copyright 2001
by Susan Lecky.

Photographs by JR Compton

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