MARBLEHEAD – From Saturday, April 2nd, through Wednesday, April 27th, the exhibit “Cut, Torn, Painted, and Pasted Papers”: Collages by Suzanne H. Ulrich, will be on view in the Abbot Public Library’s Virginia A. Carten Gallery. There will be a public opening reception on Sunday, April 3rd, from 2:00 – 4:00 pm. Light refreshments will be served. (Gallery samples below)
Public Reception: Sunday, April 3rd, 2:00 – 4:00 pm. All are welcome!
Artist’s Statement: “These collage works of cut, torn, painted and pasted papers have a small, intimate scale. The rectangle both dominates and gives structure to the work, with attention to the surface detail and layering. With a compositional ordering, avoiding any illusionistic references, each piece becomes a composed self-contained presence.
I have chosen the pieces in this exhibition from many different years to give an overview, a retrospective of my collage-making. I had been affiliated with two prominent galleries in Manhattan for a dozen years and also one in upstate NY. Ivan Karp, being one of those and Kathryn Markel and John Davis. All very generous and good to me. I am still represented by Barbara Krakow in Boston as well as several other private dealers. I thought I could die happy to have one exhibition in NYC in my lifetime. I had many. You just never know. But just showing up in the studio most mornings and seeing where the work takes you is the best part. You get to make it all for yourself, to please only yourself.
I have enjoyed making art most of my life and have had the good fortune to maintain a studio outside the home for many of those years. Indulging in the romance of the studio, the canvas, the paper, the paints, brushes and all the other things I needed to make this art. To be able to sit and meditate and work on things in progress, to live with them, look at them, change, remake, discard and begin again until something emerges and is finished. Playing with basic shapes and colors, the possibilities are endless…
I hope you all enjoy this exhibit. I have thought about it and planned which pieces to show for almost a year now. A few from my own collection and I have borrowed back several others.”
The Abbot Public Library is located at 235 Pleasant Street, Marblehead, MA 01945. For additional information, please call 781-631-1481 or visit www.abbotlibrary.org.
