“The paintings reflect harmony in color and composition, and hopefully result in a peacefulness and balance, which is not just emotional, it’s a physical thing that relates to painting and what painting is about for me.”
Equilibrium, the title of Susan Vecsey’s exhibition, is a deeply referential concept referring to the balance or stasis produced by equally opposing forces. At a unique time in our collective human history where equilibrium feels just beyond our grasp, Vecsey provides a much-needed respite, a visual meditative calm with just enough surface tension to bring a wide range of human emotions bubbling to the surface from within. Through thinly veiled surfaces of oil almost hovering, sometimes shimmering, on linen, the New York-based painter creates her own visual language of abstraction rooted in perception.
Minimal and captivating, Vecsey’s universal images—landscape-like, with what our eye reads as certainly sky above a horizon line of carefully transposed colors—illuminate how color and for
