Suzanne Song USA, b. 1974
Overview
Suzanne Song explores ’space’ as a nonmaterial being and a conceptual object.
Once she specifically constructs a place in her conceptual territory and alters them into targets of representation, she develops her painting and installation with restrained lines and colors. Transfiguring the two-dimensional into the multi-dimensional state within her abstract paintings in geometric forms, Song has sought to investigate the notion of duality that derives from the niche between cognition and reality. To trigger continual interaction of the figurative factors, Song applies diverse visual approaches that underline media’s physical traits, including Trompe-l’oeil.
Song achieves her delicate aesthetics by playing variations of the fundamentals of painting—colors, textures, and shapes. These formative features occupying a canvas with a balanced formation enhance the tense dynamics between space and space, lines and faces, and verticals and horizontals. Her atypical canvas series is an outcome of her commitment to separating vacant spaces in her works and shifting them into a new form of sense over several years. Her recent series, emphasizing minimalistic sides along with the rigidity of geometry in a sophisticated attitude, carefully projects light and color onto the space of a canvas. Keeping her position on an interface where the borderline of the interior and exterior and the real and fiction is uncertain, Song addresses a question about the relationship between what art attempts to manifest and the actual world rather than being satisfied with the institutional definition of painting.
Suzanne Song lives and works in New York, USA. Suzanne Song (b.1974) has received a BFA from Clemson University, US and an MFA from Yale School of Art at Yale University, US. She has participated in exhibitions at The Drawing Center, US and Doosan Gallery NY, US. As a recipient of the Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program and New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship, she continues her vibrant artistic practice as a member of the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts (EFA) in New York City. Her work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design in US.
Once she specifically constructs a place in her conceptual territory and alters them into targets of representation, she develops her painting and installation with restrained lines and colors. Transfiguring the two-dimensional into the multi-dimensional state within her abstract paintings in geometric forms, Song has sought to investigate the notion of duality that derives from the niche between cognition and reality. To trigger continual interaction of the figurative factors, Song applies diverse visual approaches that underline media’s physical traits, including Trompe-l’oeil.
Song achieves her delicate aesthetics by playing variations of the fundamentals of painting—colors, textures, and shapes. These formative features occupying a canvas with a balanced formation enhance the tense dynamics between space and space, lines and faces, and verticals and horizontals. Her atypical canvas series is an outcome of her commitment to separating vacant spaces in her works and shifting them into a new form of sense over several years. Her recent series, emphasizing minimalistic sides along with the rigidity of geometry in a sophisticated attitude, carefully projects light and color onto the space of a canvas. Keeping her position on an interface where the borderline of the interior and exterior and the real and fiction is uncertain, Song addresses a question about the relationship between what art attempts to manifest and the actual world rather than being satisfied with the institutional definition of painting.
Suzanne Song lives and works in New York, USA. Suzanne Song (b.1974) has received a BFA from Clemson University, US and an MFA from Yale School of Art at Yale University, US. She has participated in exhibitions at The Drawing Center, US and Doosan Gallery NY, US. As a recipient of the Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program and New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship, she continues her vibrant artistic practice as a member of the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts (EFA) in New York City. Her work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design in US.
Works
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Suzanne SongPlica(Blue), 2023
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Suzanne SongRepli (BW), 2024
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Suzanne SongIn Distant, 2023
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Suzanne SongCrevasses, 2023
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Suzanne SongUntitled (Green-Yellow), 2020
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Suzanne SongPolū, 2023
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Suzanne SongThree Points I, 2023
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Suzanne SongUntitled, 2022
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Suzanne SongUntitled (Facet), 2018
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Suzanne SongStoppages, 2018
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Suzanne SongCast IV, 2023
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Suzanne SongUntitled (Inter-Series 2), 2018
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Suzanne SongAccord, 2017
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Suzanne SongOffset, 2018
Exhibitions
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Near Distance 6 March - 13 April 2024 -
Lagrange Point
Kim Sang Gyun, Suzanne Song 19 April - 20 May 2023 -
Faint Afterglow
Aki Inomata, Bae Yoonhwan, Park Sukwon, Chung Heeseung, Ham Jin, Suzanne Song, Kim Oksun, Lee Jaeseok, Choi Jimok 11 January - 18 February 2023 -
Suzanne Song
Open Surface 27 December 2018 - 9 February 2019Gallery Baton is pleased to present a solo exhibition ”Open Surface” with the new works by Korean American artist Suzanne Song (b. 1974) from December 27th, 2018 to February 9th, 2019. Suzanne Song has been exploring ’space’ as a nonmaterial being and a conceptual object. To Song, the reproduced subject, space, is not something that can be defined in philosophical or physical terms but a 'specific and concrete space' that can be compiled and collected in her perceptual domain through experience. The viewer perceives this 'space' with a familiar feeling because this 'space' reminds one of the commonplace walls of schools, public institutions, and office spaces in many cultures.Read more -
Suzanne Song
Intervals 23 October - 24 November 2015Gallery Baton is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Korean-American artist, Suzanne Song.Read more
News
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Suzanne Song
'EFAbstract' at EFA Project Space 15 January 2020Suzanne Song is participating a group exhibition, ‘EFAbstract’ at EFA Project Space, New York. This exhibition is curated by Bill Carroll, featuring nine member artists...Read more -
Suzanne Song
'ACTIVE BEIGE' at Foley Gallery 12 January 2018Suzanne Song group show 'Active Beige' will be seen in Foley Gallery. 'Active Beige' shows aspure manifestations of the artist's abstract mind, their practice, complexities,...Read more -
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'ARMORY ARTS WEEK: EFA OPEN HOUSE' at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts 28 February 2017Suzanne Song, a member artist of EFA Studio Program, is participating in Armory Arts Week: EFA Open House. Exhibition Title : Armory Arts Week: EFA...Read more
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