Reynolds Fine Art presents Â
Breaking Boundaries: The Art of Susan Weinreich
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Catalogue designed by Daniel Bennick
“Crouched Figure", Ink on Acid Free Paper, Unframed, 9 3/4" X 8", 1975
"Bell Jar Series 1", Ink, Acrylic and Charcoal on Acid Free Paper, 19" X 25", 1974 Â
"Kisser 1", Pastel and Charcoal on French Rag, 22" X 30", 1993
"Soaring Figure", Ink and Charcoal on Acid Free Paper, 11 3/4" X 9�, 1975
“Yellow Silence”, Pastel, Charcoal and Charcoal Wash on French Rag, 30" X 22", 1994
“Bell Jar Series 2”, Ink, Acrylic and Charcoal on Acid Free Paper, 19" X 25", 1974
"Bell Jar Series 3", Ink, Acrylic and Charcoal on Acid Free Paper, 19" X 25", 1974
"Elenore's Mother", Pastel on Canson Paper, 42 1/2" X 28 1/2", 1983
"Owl", " Pastel and Charcoal Wash on French Rag, 30" X 22", 1994
"Horizontal Figures", Ink on Acid Free Paper, 15 1/2" X 21", 1975
"Leaping Figure", Ink and Charcoal on Acid Free Paper, 11 3/4" X 9", 1975
"Three Sirens", Pastel and Charcoal Wash on French Rag, 22" X 30", 1993
"The Widow", Pastel on Canson Paper, 61" X 43", 1990
"Dancing Figure", Ink and Charcoal on Acid Free Paper, 11 3/4" X 9", 1975
"Hanging Figure", Ink and Charcoal on Acid Free Paper, 11 3/4" X 9", 1975
“Lunar Landscape”, Pastel and Charcoal Wash on French Rag, 22” x 30”, 1993
“Two Figures Square”, Ink and Charcoal on Acid Free Paper, 17” x 17”, 1974
“Tribal Union”, Charcoal Wash on French Rag, 30” x 22”, 1993
“Bell Jar Series 4”, Ink, Acrylic and Charcoal on Acid Free Paper, 19” x 25”, 1974
“Kisser 2”, Pastel and Charcoal on French Rag, 22” x 30”, 1993
Woodcuts
ARTIST STATEMENT
Drawing from an internal well, still thick with past memory, I sometimes surprise myself with how guttural and intrinsically raw my images really are. After all is said and done, it is the naked and vulnerable self that inspires us to truth telling. My images can be deeply honest, energetic and seemingly dark. Yet the more I smear, rub, spatter and carve away at the surface of these dark illusions, the more color I begin to see. When the door to my studio swings open and the world outside is a blaze in Light, I know I have done an honest day’s work.
-Susan Weinreich
Reynolds Fine Art is pleased to offer a hand picked selection of early vintage drawings, pastels and woodcuts executed by artist, Susan Weinreich between the years 1974 to 1994. Two decades that spans the transition of the artist’s descent and emergence from schizophrenia. Never ceasing to create, Weinreich gives us a raw, sometimes frenetic look into her past, yet inevitably hints at the promise of triumph. “Weinreich has used her work not to escape her schizophrenia, but to master it. She has a coherent life narrative that includes both isolation and connectedness, madness and sanity. Of necessity, her work has a dark side. But art is the product of creativity, which is a lesson in vitality. The immediacy and evident passion of her work reflect the lost time when she had no real voice; the imagination evident in the work owes much to the time when the imagined world and the real one had such porous boundaries…..These brave pictures, suffused with intimacy, elaborate her unstinting gaze at both the smoothness of the world’s surfaces and the jagged turmoil of the human mind.” Andrew Solomon, PhD, is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture, psychology and the arts.
Susan Weinreich is a celebrated American Artist, Lecturer and Mental Health Advocate whose paintings and drawings have been exhibited across the nation. Ms. Weinreich’s artwork is in the collection of numerous individuals, public and private, including, The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, the World Corporate Headquarters of Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the Four Winds Hospital, in Katonah, New York.