The surface of this work on paper, combining ink-jet print with acrylic painting, is particularly rich in pentimento traces, having gone through numerous revisions.
Like sbc 164, it started life as a fragment of a previous painting on paper that was printed upon and then subsequently reworked with paint over several months.
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