Office Gallery
September 6 - October 12, 2024
SUSANNE DOREMUS
Color Field
Susanne Doremus received her BA from Elmira College in Elmira, NY and her MFA from University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI. She has been the subject of various solo and two-person exhibitions, including at One Illinois Center, Chicago, IL (1980); University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2002); and Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (2014). She has also participated in many group exhibitions, including Chicago/Chicago, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (1980); Art in Chicago: 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (1996); Chicago Imagists; In Context, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI (2011); and Surrealism and War, National Veterans’ Art Museum, Chicago, IL (2015). Dorms currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.
For decades, Susanne Doremus has imported working strategies from gestural painting, blind drawing, schematics, performance driven music and dance, and applied those moves to the way she processes and records her primary concerns. Pulling from the observed and the viscerally felt, she uses line and mark to articulate the experiences that feel most relevant and necessary. Those experiences may be as literal as the ongoing construction of the expressway seen from her studio window; or they may build from tracings of shapes, marks or lines from previous paintings; or potential my arise from a thoughtless studio accident or a spill on the canvas. The way Susanne Doremus brings it all to bare reflects how important the mapping and excavating of a conceptualized sensation is fundamental to her practice.
For decades, Susanne Doremus has imported working strategies from gestural painting, blind drawing, schematics, performance driven music and dance, and applied those moves to the way she processes and records her primary concerns. Pulling from the observed and the viscerally felt, she uses line and mark to articulate the experiences that feel most relevant and necessary. Those experiences may be as literal as the ongoing construction of the expressway seen from her studio window; or they may build from tracings of shapes, marks or lines from previous paintings; or potential my arise from a thoughtless studio accident or a spill on the canvas. The way Susanne Doremus brings it all to bare reflects how important the mapping and excavating of a conceptualized sensation is fundamental to her practice.
