Palm Springs 6, acrylic and aquarelle on panel, 34×60

Palm Springs 5, acrylic and aquarelle on panel, 34×48

Retreat, acrylic and aquarelle on panel, 34×28

Artist Statement

My recent work investigates the shadows of the American middle-class landscape. I locate surface qualities that both seduce and haunt, simultaneously evoking my own middle-class desires and a recognition of the feebleness of those desires: things coming and going. A vantage point. Translating those surface qualities becomes a way to work through the tensions within my creative life; I want both beauty and grit, just as, perhaps, I want aspects of the suburban dream as well as the right to criticize it.

By following the areas of seduction- palm trees against a pink sky, the sweep of a smooth concrete driveway–  the contradictions of suburban desires present themselves. The darker, less-defined areas mark an entrance into the real domestic life of the place. Ideas and longings flicker and disappear.  A walkway leading to a house, possibly a home, is barely visible in the darkness of night – or obscured by memory itself. The empty spaces hold something.

Contact

www.meganberk.com
meganberk@hotmail.com

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Artist Bio

I am an illustrator living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Things I think about on a daily basis include sandwiches, Tina Fey + 30 Rock, monograms, masking fluids, humidity, laundry, NYTimes Science Times, and microns.

You can contact me at suzan@obokchoy.com.

BFA from Pratt Institute.

FUN FACT// Suzan is pronounced as Suzanne and not Susan, Susanna, Suzy or Suzie Q.

Website

http://www.obokchoy.com

Upcoming Exhibit

“Reflection”
Opening July 30th – August 30th

Destination
32-36 Little West 12th Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10014
tel: 212.727.2031
http://www.destinationny.net

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Exhibit at Sweet Lorraine Gallery, contact artists for viewing information.

Alex Downs – Vessels
Email: downs2681@gmail.com
Web: http://www.flickr.com/photos/downs2681/
Phone: 347-387-2382

Laura Gibson – Drawings
Email: bella.gibson@gmail.com
Phone: 718-775-1557

Chad Rimer – Sculpture
Email: chadrimer@yahoo.com
Phone: 718-775-1556

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Before & After Room, Tribeca. 2007

White Consultation Chair, Upper East Side. 2006

Implants, Upper East Side. 2008

Singular Beauty

“The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or
rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

This collection of photographs resulted from both a personal struggle with body issues, and a long history in the beauty business. In photographing these doctor’s offices, I not only developed my visual understanding of the world, but I was able to reconcile my own feelings about beauty. I found myself less interested the actual place or thing, than in capturing the emotional significance of it–for myself as an artist–and for those who sought their salvation in these chairs, beds, machines and tools.

Website

http://cara-phillips.com/

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