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| moderndallas.net Special “Eye” to Watch June Mattingly // contributing art writer Susie Rosmarin + Liz Ward show at Dunn and Brown Contemporary through December 18 Houston-based Susie Rosmarin’s show “New Work”, includes small, medium and large scale vibrating acrylic abstract paintings and Liz Ward’s show “Deep Time” consists of small, medium and large watercolors, intricate silver point drawings and a 40-foot long hand-painted scroll. |
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| Rosmarin received a BA from the University of St. Thomas in Houston and an MFA at Pratt Institute in New York. The permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston own her pieces. Currently her painting is in the DMA’s present exhibit “Re-Seeing the Contemporary: Selected form the Collection” discerningly curated by Jeffrey Grove, the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art. Susie’s piece hangs with icons such as Jackson Pollock and Gerhard Richter “celebrating the rich holdings that form the core collection of modern and contemporary art.” |
| Houston-based Susie Rosmarin’s show “New Work” is her inaugural exhibit with Dunn and Brown Contemporary. Included are small, medium and large scale vibrating acrylic abstract paintings. Susie’s paintings literally light up and move in sync from their private space on the canvas. The perception of light exudes or jumps out from tight linear overlapping patterns designed in brilliant, clearly defined color combinations and sharp, synchronized glowing white backgrounds. |
| Twelve years ago I photographed (along with 90 fervent birdwatchers in one overnight camp site and from a small ship over a nine-day period) disappearing almost in front of my eyes, six species of penguins, albatrosses, dolphins, elephant seals and on and on. In this magnificent scenery, never to be out of my visual memory regally stood devastated glaciers and even more sadly, overpopulated cruise ships in the foreground. Antarctica awed and inspired me. This unforgettable trip will always make me wonder why our world glosses over one of history’s worst environmental disasters coupled with the BP oil catastrophe and on and on. The soft, subtle and sensual abstract images in Liz’s work represent glaciers and ice cores (an ice shows climate conditions over 800,000 years of collected dust, volcanic ash, small meteorites, and even traces of nuclear testing,) through complimentary shades of luminous under-watery beauty - blues, greens and greys on white backgrounds. The titles such as Glacial Ghost, Melt Lake, Greenland and Kilimanjaro reference locations where ice cores are extracted; one work’s title, Epica stands for European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica. |
| Susie’s exacting and skillful method of executing the overlapping grids is inspired by fractal geometry and the Op Art movement in the 1960s. Her complicated mathematical formula is based on each layer of the color pattern arrangement being taped, painted, waited on to dry and repeated. A series of ten small paintings depict contrasting color combinations from the color wheel, such as Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, and Blue-Violet. Another work uses variations on three colors such as Red-Violet-Yellow within the painting. |
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| Liz Ward’s show “Deep Time” in Dunn and Brown’s front gallery consists of small, medium and large watercolors, intricate silverpoint drawings and a 40-fot long hand- painted scroll. Deep down in the beautifully drawn and conceived surfaces of these pieces is a loud and clear message particularly close to my heart. Liz is addressing the “alarming imperilment of ice phenomena in the Antarctica.” |
| Glacial Ghost II |
| Liz lives in San Antonio; she received her MFA from the University of Houston in 1990. In 1998, her one-person at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston was entitled “Liz Ward: The Present of Past Things.” Her work is in permanent collections including the Whitney, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Austin Museum of Art. She is in the corporate collections of Sewell Automotive Companies and American Airlines. |