Susanne Doremus: Color Field

For decades, Susanne Doremus has imported working strategies from gestural painting, blind drawing, schematics, performance driven music and dance, and applied those moves to the way she processes and records her primary concerns. Pulling from the observed and the viscerally felt, she uses line and mark to articulate the experiences that feel most relevant and necessary. Those experiences may be as literal as the ongoing construction of the expressway seen from her studio window; or they may build from tracings of shapes, marks or lines from previous paintings; or potential my arise from a thoughtless studio accident or a spill on the canvas. The way Susanne Doremus brings it all to bare reflects how important the mapping and excavating of a conceptualized sensation is fundamental to her practice.