SUSAN: SIMPLY MARVELOUS

Her new drawings of cancerous cells utilize crisp gestural outlines containing a confusing array of repetitious tick marks and layered pointillism. From a distance there is depth created reminiscent of low relief sculpture. When closely analyzed, the textures become chaotic and muddled. Stylistically, from a distance, it appears as clean scientific illustration, but as one moves closer, the texture becomes less precise and reminiscent of histology slides. This duality illustrates Susan’s interest in the beauty of cancer and the mysteriously random, destructive nature of the condition itself, for this Susan is indeed marvelous.