About
In the studio with Schrödinger’s Cat #3
Michele Sudduth is a San Francisco-based painter whose work explores the fluid nature of viewpoint in a rapidly changing and connected world. Her work has been exhibited at the deYoung Museum as part of the Artist Residency Program, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Riverside Art Museum, the SFMOMA Artists Gallery, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art and in private galleries. She has been honored with nominations for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art In/Site Award, the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, and for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Young Talent Award. Her paintings are in corporate and private collections.
”. . . bold abstractions full of adventurous color combinations—some energetically flirting with chromatic dissonance . . . and allusions to the figure, along with a sophisticated psychological charge . . . We’re all part of this picture.“
Glen Helfand
Independent writer, critic & curator
Statement
It’s a Humpty-Dumpty world where the structures and narratives once thought of as fixed have fractured, and will never be put back together as they once were. So, like a kaleidoscope my paintings explore perceptions in constant flux, shaping and reshaping as the focus shifts from one set of relationships to another. By conflating the hint of a human form—sometimes barely perceptible—with references to the architecture of our creations and to the natural world, I attempt to find optimism in the relationships and responsibilities we have to each other, to our creations, and to the planet.