Susan Post
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Susan Post commented on Ross Bleckner Counsels Young Artists on March 16, 2009, 8:21 AM
I used to make paintings of treetops that most people could easily relate to, but I discovered that what I really wanted to focus on was finding ways for paint to behave, rather than depict, and how to do that in a way that sustains me in the studio. The people who dismiss my current work as either overly intellectual or lacking in skill are most definitely not my audience. By making paintings that appear to be easily dismissible, I avoid equally superficial responses.
Susan Post commented on Re: Re: Why is language veiled? on February 1, 2008, 2:52 PM
well, I haven't done all my Pinker homework, to be honest...and I can see why you might be confused. I am talking about how the brain understands such things as simple division of a square visually - we instantly recognize or distinguish 'about half', or 'about a third' of a regular rectangle, and not only one that is divided by straight lines, as I often do, because we can tell when something is filled in 'more' or 'less' than half by random area, as well. We do not need words to make this determination, nor do we need to make calculations of any sort, with a small enough number of parts. We just know.
Re: Re: Why is language veiled?
I have been interested in language acquisition almost as long as I have been a painter...I went down the visual path, and my current work is in activated surfaces and edges. I also think of the structure of a composition in terms of metre (long-short = wide-narrow) for similar reasons that I understood Dr. Pinker saying he studies verbs: as windows into psyche/way the human mind works; as universal organizing principles (which I think of as pre-linguistic, and not limited to our species, such as ordering and small integer counting and division). Interesting that I found this Idea by searching for 'mathematics'. … Read More
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I try to make paintings that take on a life of their own...I especially like when something works two ways at once.
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Susan Post commented on Sean Scully Examines His Evolution as an Artist on March 18, 2009, 7:41 PM
I am not surprised that Agnes Martin is one of your unexpected influences... both of you activate your surfaces with color (hers is thin and transparent while yours seems to emerge out of the underpainting rather than the support ) and you also share the very human and universal geometry of your compositions ... If you have not already read it, try "The Catastrophist" by Ronan Bennett, about the Congo.