A PLACE I’VE NEVER BEEN BY SUSAN FRANKL
Opening Reception: Friday, September 19 from 5 - 7 PM
On Exhibit through September 29
The Commons
46 Bradford Street, Provincetown
@susanfrankl.art
susanfrankl@me.com
Through the lens of my fascination with color, patterns and textures, the paintings are created using acrylic paint employing layering techniques often incorporating gold leaf, charcoal, ink pencils and collage. It begins without a roadmap or objective, but with each mark it winds its way to resolution. Images may loosely be informed by the dunes, grasses, and beaches of the Outer Cape as well as my travels to unique landscapes around the world. In my paintings you may find references to the land, water, sky and light.
The paintings emerge from an intuitive process linked to a place of deep connection to nature and self. As a physician and educator, my best work happened when I could tap into my intuitive awareness to use in concert with medical knowledge to build connection to others. As an artist, when I can immerse myself in the act of creating and allow judgement to step aside, I connect to a place of wholeness and wonder. It is then that I create my best work. I aspire to have the work similarly forge connection, sparking curiosity and joy in the viewer.