From Deseret News archives:
Abstract observations: Bonnie Sucec's UMFA exhibition has something to say
In fact, her "Sideshow" exhibit, a collection of paintings inspired by current political and social events, tells such visually intricate stories that the space surrounding her art becomes mere white noise.
In their 1997 book, "Utah Painting and Sculpture," Swanson, Olpin and Seifrit referred to Sucec as an imagist painter. Today, she would truly be considered an abstract imagist.
Chicago art writer Clara Rose Thornton defines imagist art as pop and surrealism's illegitimate child, consisting of "boldly colorful, figuratively fragmented paintings" relying "heavily on abstraction and subverted references to popular culture" a perfect description of Sucec's work.
"These pieces are very political," Sucec told the Deseret Morning News. "It's been on my mind because it's not hard to be concerned about current events."
This is how many abstract expressionist painters work: building up images that suddenly become nearly recognizable entities and then take on meaning.
Because Sucec employs gouache (opaque watercolor) as a medium in most of her paintings, she's able to work fast. "Gouache dries very quickly. You can paint right over it."
But it generally takes her a week or two to complete a painting. And when you see her tangled, whimsical narratives you'll know why.
In "Confess," triangular entities, some with and without limbs, enter the ear of a head form stuck in some kind of webbing. The head depicts blood vessels, muscles and organs, all abstracted in Sucec's style. From the mouth of this head the entities are vomited, only to return to the ear.
It sounds grisly, but it's an absolutely brilliant design that grips the eye and coerces the mind into finding answers to the enigmatic image.
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