Beauty Where We Never Thought to Look
Beauty Where We Never Thought to Look
The Garden Party solo exhibition explores
Susan McLaughlin's free creative manifestation,
its great and unusual images, hidden meanings
and distant realities. The stronger the painting is,
the greater is its emotional power and poetic reality.
A world that allows distancing from the traditional
rules and speaks directly to one’s senses and
emotions-not simply reason and order-creates
a profound romance with nature and our relationship
with the world as a whole. Individuality and subjectivity
counteract any excessive insistence on logical thought.
In the span of works included in this exhibit we can
actually see Susan’s thesis evolve from the painting
Foxglove (2015) to Halfway to Heaven (2018). Halfway to
Heaven distills her thesis; the two paintings taken
together show us that heaven is really here on earth.
In Susan’s own description of the relationship between
the two paintings, “Time has passed, the baby has grown up
and he and his mother have moved on. Now the boat is
empty, but it still exists in perfect harmony with its environment.”
Garden Party is situated neither in choice of subject nor in
exact truth, but in a way of feeling. It teaches us to find
beauty in places where we never thought to look.
Noor Blazekovic, Curator
VIP OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, November 22, 2019
6:00 p.m
Miami Dade College Hialeah Campus
1780 W 49th Street
Hialeah, Florida - 33012