This is an engaging and revealing look at the works created by artist Susan Heller while her husband was treated for a near fatal illness. For decades, Susanna Heller has distilled the peripheral landscapes of New York City in her wildly expressive, near-abstract drawings and paintings. Figures rarely appeared in Heller's work before March 2010, when her husband was hospitalized with a devastating illness. To cope with the anxiety, during her bedside vigils Heller began to draw her agonized, silent husband and his setting. In her catalogue essay, Karen Wilkin compares the new drawings with Heller's urban paintings, "The passive figure isolated on the bed, the complicated surroundings of the life-sustaining hospital equipment, the glimpses of an iconic view of the city outside the window all become, spatially and pictorially, elements in a 'landscape that we recognize from her urban images, with their elastic space and fractured viewpoints."
- ISBN10 1894518632
- ISBN13 9781894518635
- Publish Date 7 November 2013
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Mount Saint Vincent University
- Format Paperback
- Pages 24
- Language English