Becky Suss's Distortions

Becky Suss’s paintings prod reconsideration of art forms, such as children’s literature, that are often considered secondary to the work of real aesthetic genius. Photograph Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery

Congratulations to Painter Becky Suss [MFA 2010] who received a great review of her current show at Shainman Gallery, NYC. in the March 3 issue of the New Yorker Magazine. And we quote:

“[..]Becky Suss’s paintings can be deceptively simple. “I’ve always been a stacker and a flattener,” she told me. She works large—most of her paintings are around seven feet tall, and some five feet or more wide—and she uses pattern and distorted perspective to explore how memory alters the shape of domestic spaces that one once knew, or imagined, intimately. Suss is an enthusiastic champion of representational painting, but she insists that her work is “not a window.” Scale and distortion are two ways for her to kindle this realization in a viewer: to bring them back to the object in front of them. But they also, she offers, “validate the distortions of remembering. So instead of thinking of a distorted image in your mind as a lapse in memory or a misremembering—no, these distortions are the story.”