Susan Vecsey

SUSAN VECSEY

SUSAN VECSEY

ON

MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY

ON THE EDGE

On the Edge presents a selection of both paintings and collage, which are a continuation of Susan Vecsey’s longstanding venture of creating abstractions that are rooted in human perception.

The new collage paintings are the largest the artist has created to date.

Having settled comfortably on the edge of phantasm and pure form, Vecsey is always working towards the creation of a universal image. Interested in bringing her compositions down to their essence, she works through her own memory of different topographies she has experienced by considering the continuously shifting effects of light, water, and air on our impressions of place. The result is soft, glowing abstractions which feel like peaceful meditations.

Minimal and captivating, these universal images illuminate how color, sfumato, and material can remind each viewer of an ethereal place, memory,

or dream. Vecsey’s work is seamless and fluid, but there is a calculated structure behind each blanket of color. The forms begin with the landscapes that live in her memory, sans photograph, but are pared down to their essence. Once Vecsey is in the studio, she works on color studies which inform the hues and forms of her larger works until she decides on a group of colors that naturally “lock together” based on her precise vision.

“The paintings reflect harmony in color and composition, and hopefully result in a peacefulness and balance, which is not just emotional,” Vecsey states, “It’s a physical thing that relates to painting and what painting is about for me.”

Vecsey adapts the Color Field technique of pouring her meticulously considered and created hues onto the surface of a coarse Belgian linen, her longtime chosen canvas. Describing her distinctive process as “working like a watercolorist with liquefied oil

paint,” this medium is similarly unforgiving as the viscous paint saturates her canvas, building on and altering the colors she previously laid upon the canvas. Pouring once a day on each work in progress, Vecsey is always considerate of the effects of her tonal colors on the rich surface of her works, which underscore the beauty of her media.

soft and striking while simultaneously elevating her chosen media. The linen edges of each portion of the works are gently frayed, yet demonstrate Vecsey’s ability to use restraint in both form and color while creating poignant windows into memory and perception.

“The paintings reflect harmony in colorandcomposition,andhopefully resultinapeacefulnessandbalance, which is not just emotional. It’s a physicalthingthatrelatestopainting andwhatpaintingisaboutforme.”

Within each work of On the Edge, the form and color unite to suggest the atmospheric effects of dusk on a lush hillside, as in Untitled (Lavender/Green), 2024, the soft curve of a shore, the subtle slope of a hillside, as in Untitled (Blue/Green), 2024, or the light of the sun sinking into the horizon, as in Untitled (Hot Orange), 2024, each universally and subconsciously understood.

This exhibition also presents a new iteration of Vecsey’s particular visual language with her collage works. Consisting of the same materials and conceptual approach, these works are equally

Art historian and critic Phyllis Tuchman has described Vecsey’s work as “Unlike, say, Fairfield Porter, another East End artist, Vecsey is less involved with the here and now. She’s not recording the details of daily life. She’s reminding you of

places where you have been. With swooping curves, extended horizon lines, and a mix of tonal colors, Vecsey’s compelling images have the character of memories, recollections, reveries. You’re revisiting sites of pleasure and wonderment.” This evocative quality makes Vecsey’s work resonate deeply with viewers, inviting them to reflect on their own experiences and emotions surrounding place.

“She’s not recording the details of dailylife.She’sremindingyouofplaces where you have been... Vecsey’s compelling images have the character of memories, recollections, reveries.You’rerevisitingsitesofpleasure and wonderment.”

Born in Somerville, New Jersey, in 1971, Susan Vecsey earned her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her MFA from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. Vecsey’s work is widely held in both public and private collections, including the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, the Nassau County Museum, Roslyn, New York, the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, and Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY. In 2012, Vecsey was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Vecsey’s work was featured in Guild Hall Museum’s 2014 Selections from the Permanent Collection curated by Christina Strassfield. In 2024, Vecsey was a visiting artist at La Maison de Simon, near Giverny, France. In recent years, the distinguished design dealers, Lee Jofa and Brunschwig & Fils, have used several of her paintings in advertising campaigns. Vecsey has been featured in magazines such as Architectural Digest, Hamptons Magazine and Veranda. Susan Vecsey currently lives and works between New York City and East Hampton, New York.

UNTITLED (HOT ORANGE), 2024

44 x 74 inches

Oil on collaged linen

68 x 86 inches

UNTITLED (BLUE/GREEN), 2022

Oil on linen

UNTITLED (LAVENDER/GREEN), 2024

36 x 48 inches

Oil on collaged linen

UNTITLED (BLUE/AQUA), 2024

Oil on linen

44 x 72 inches

UNTITLED (BLUE/OCHRE), 2024

24 x 20 inches

Oil on collaged linen

24 x 20 inches

UNTITLED (PINK/ORANGE), 2024

Oil on collaged linen

UNTITLED (BLUE/GREEN), 2024

Oil on linen

80 x 44 inches

UNTITLED (GREY/BLUE), 2024

36 x 36 inches

Oil on collaged linen

UNTITLED (VIOLET WAVE), 2020

Oil on linen

72 x 80 inches

(TANGERINE / BLUE), 2023

Oil on linen

58 x 80 inches

UNTITLED (GRAY), 2022

Oil on linen

52 x 58 inches

UNTITLED (WHITE), 2023

Oil on paper

32 x 40 inches

40 x 32 inches each

UNTITLED (WHITE TRIPTYCH), 2023

Oil on paper

UNTITLED (LAVENDER) 2023

32 x 40 inches

Oil on paper

SUSAN VECSEY

Born 1971, in Somerville, New Jersey

Lives and works in New York City and East Hampton, New York

EDUCATION

MFA, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture

Study with Graham Nickson.

BA, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York

Continuing Study, Museum of Modern Art, The New School, International Center of Photography, New York

2018 Berry Campbell, New York

2017 Greenville County Museum, SC

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Maya Frodeman Gallery (formerly Tayloe Piggott Gallery), Jackson, WY, On the Edge

2023 Liget Gallery, Budapest, Seat Meets Sky

Berry Campbell, New York

2020 Berry Campbell, New York

John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor, NY

Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY

2016 Berry Campbell, New York, Recent Paintings

2014 Berry Campbell, New York, Recent Paintings

Quogue Gallery, New York, Recent Paintings

2010 Spanierman Gallery, New York, Recent Paintings

2009 Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY, Light of Spring

2008 Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY, New Paintings

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Quogue Gallery, New York, Susan Vecsey Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY, New Paintings

2024 Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, Beyond the Horizon: Interpretations of the Landscape from Women in the Permanent Collection

Berry Campbell, New York, Perseverance

2023 The Barn, Frampton co., Bridgehampton, New York, Women Choose Women

Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY, Community,

(Organized by Berry Campbell)

2022 The Painting Center, New York, Break of Day, Edge of Night

2021 `Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, 83rd Artist

Members Exhibition

2020 Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, New York, Continuum (organized by Berry Campbell)

Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, 82nd

Artist Members Exhibition

Berry Campbell, New York, Artist Insights/ Contemporary Highlights Drive-by-Art, Public Art in the Moment of Social Distancing, 2020, Long Island, New York (organized by Warren Neidich)

Nassau County Museum of Art, blue.

2019 Berry Campbell, New York, Summer Selections

2018 Berry Campbell, Summer Selections

Art Wynwood, Berry Campbell

Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary, Berry

Campbell

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York,

Artist Members Exhibition

2017 Art Miami, Berry Campbell

Berry Campbell, Summer Selections

Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary, Berry

Campbell

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York,

Artist Members Exhibition

2016 Art Miami, Berry Campbell

Berry Campbell, Something (curated by Noah Becker)

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York,

Artist Members Exhibition

Berry Campbell, Summer Selections

Art Southampton, Art Fair, Berry Campbell Gallery

2015 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York,

Artist Members Exhibition

Art Wynwood, Berry Campbell

Berry Campbell, Summer Selections

Art Southampton, Art Fair, Berry Campbell Gallery

2014 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

New Additions to the Permanent Collection, 2010-2014

Art Wynwood, Berry Campbell

Art Silicon Valley | San Francisco, Berry

Campbell

Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, Connecticut

Berry Campbell, Year in Review, New York

Miami Project, Berry Campbell

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York,

75th Annual Guild Hall Artist Members

Exhibition

2013 Spanierman Modern, New York, Modern

Selections

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York,

First Impressions: Printmaking with Solarplates

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, Landscape

Selections from the Permanent Collection

Spanierman Gallery, New York, Summer

Selections

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, 75th Annual Guild Hall Artist Members

Exhibition

Spanierman Modern, New York, Dripping!

Pouring! Staining!

Spanierman Gallery, New York, Landscapes: 1880s to the Present

Spanierman Modern, New York, Thirteen

Contemporary Artists

2012 Spanierman Gallery, New York, Summer

Selections

Spanierman Gallery, New York, Modern and Contemporary Paintings

Spanierman Gallery, New York, Artists of the East End: Past & Present

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, 74th Annual Guild Hall Artist Member

Spanierman Gallery, New York, Contemporary Artists

2011 Spanierman Gallery, New York, Artists of the East End, Part 2

Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, New York, 44th

Annual Artists of the Springs Invitational

Spanierman Gallery, New York, Fifteen Modern and Contemporary ArtistS

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, 73rd Annual

Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition

Spanierman Gallery, New York, In the Tonalist

Mood: Paintings from 1860 to the Present

2009 Spanierman Modern, New York, Gallery Selections

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York,

Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition

2008 Water Mill Museum, New York, 16th Annual Members Exhibition

Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, New York, East End Photographers Group: 20th Anniversary Exhibition

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, 70th Annual

Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Columbia Impact 16th Annual Spring Benefit

Auction

2007 Sylvester & Co. and Amagansett Applied Arts, New York, Second Annual Group Exhibition

Sylvester & Co., Amagansett, New York, Water Show

Sylvester & Co., Amagansett, New York, Landscape Show

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, 69th Annual Guild Hall Artist Members

Exhibition

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Columbia Impact 15th Annual Spring Benefit

Auction

Sylvester & Co. and Amagansett Applied Arts, New York, First Annual Group Exhibition

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York

Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York

Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York

Grand Hyatt, Presidential Suite, New York

HONORS

2012 American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist, Italy

2012 Marika Herskovic Annual Artist Seminar, invitation to present recent work, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey

2024 La Maison de Simon, near Giverny, France, visiting artist