Thus far, apart from two projects that produced paintings in series, the artist’s paintings are not serial, functioning in relation to each other less like siblings and more like only children with lots of cousins.
This acrylic painting on fine linen exemplifies that only-child status, combining random source material cropped from photos of Cantrick’s previous paintings.
Susan Cantrick is an American abstract painter whose primary interest is in painting as a structured visual response to sub-linguistic thinking. Her paintings are analogs of her pre-verbal perception that aim to be as articulate as possible, crystallizing the vitality and complexity of emergent cognition.
She lives and works in Paris, France