Susan Weinreich (Booth 200) moved from the East Coast to Boulder two and a half years ago, and the shift in her environment is beginning to appear in her paintings.
At Art Santa Fe, she will display one of her first Rocky Mountain landscapes, as well as an eclectic assortment of pieces that represent her entire body of work, spanning 50 years, including some from when she was a teenager.
In her oil paintings on canvas, she often uses bright, saturated colors, though thematically she tends toward the darkly personal, with images that derive from the body and can turn cartoonish or ghoulish, seeming to search desperately for connection or retreat in solitude.
Cannon Ball, a charcoal-and-ink drawing on paper, is a headless nude that Weinreich said is a bit of a political statement “representing what [society] is propelling itself into.”
Life and Death, oil and mixed-media ink on paper, is from her Antiquities series, inspired by a collection of terra cotta and stone figures from the Valley of the Niger and the Western Sahara dating to 1000 B.C. Weinreich has shown her work primarily in gallery settings; Art Santa Fe is her first foray into the world of art fairs.
She is participating in an effort to establish herself in the Southwest and find out how the Santa Fe art community responds to her work.
Source: Santafenewmexican
