JESELLE S U E
530 West 25th Street, New York, NY
Chinese-born, San Francisco-based artist Jesselle Sue creates elegant abstract compositions with a minimalist aesthetic. Sue experimented with a host of mediums, until she found her preferred mode of expression in acrylic and charcoal on canvas, linen, or Arches Cover paper. While working, Sue retains the formal elements of her medium, but frees them from artistic logic in order to embrace the vision in her mind’s eye. Her preferred abstraction fosters this exploration and allows her to improvise liberally. Her simple, minimalist canvases focus only on the essential, materializing the shapes and colors she imagines. In fact, the simpler an idea or painting is, the more Sue likes it. Sue’s love for art developed in foster care, where she lived in the homes of sculptors and painters. She studied interior design in China, and has been published in various interior design magazines. Sue moved to San Francisco seven years ago, where she now works as a full-time painter and belongs to the San Francisco Women Artists organization. Sue’s greatest inspirations are Chinese landscapes, Japanese watercolors, a lifelong passion for travel, and abstract painters such as Robert Motherwell. She aims to channel the influence and lifestyle of Japanese minimalism into her work, evident in the few, privileged forms for which she allows space on each canvas.
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No Mad City #01, 2021 Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 50” x 64” $ 3 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
No Mad City #02, 2021 Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 58” x 58” $ 3 5 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
No Mad City #09, 2021 Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 54” x 72” $ 3 8 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
No Mad City #04, 2021 Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 54” x 63” $ 3 6 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
No Mad City #03, 2021 Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 54” x 54” $ 3 3 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
No Mad City #11, 2021 Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 36” x 48” $ 2 7 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
No Mad City #05, 2021 Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 36” x 36” $ 2 4 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
No Mad City #06, 2021 Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 48” x 48” $ 3 0 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
No Mad City #10, 2021 Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 54” x 50” $ 3 2 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
No Mad City #07, 2021 Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 36” x 48” $ 2 7 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
No Mad City #08, 2021 Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas 48” x 48” $ 3 0 5 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M
I am an abstract painter, passionate about creating joyful and straightforward compositions. I experimented with all kinds of materials and substrates, including cement, resin, oil paint, and encaustic, before deciding to work exclusively in acrylic and charcoal on canvas, linen, or Arches Cover paper. I use abstraction instead of referencing recognizable elements so that I am able to improvise. I can focus on lines, shapes, and textures freed from the constraints of figurative forms or narrative depictions. With these formal elements of my medium in mind, I develop simple compositions that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on the previsual images in my mind’s eye. Instead of remembering pictures, I visualize shapes and colors, and many of my paintings are materializations of these memories. While my style is unique, I am inspired by Japanese watercolor, Chinese landscape, and abstract painters
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