Susanna Coffey
Courtesy of the Artist
Susanna Coffey explores the many facets of the artist’s ongoing body of work. While viewers will undoubtedly be familiar with her self-portraits, Coffey also addresses themes of war, still life and plein air landscape often painted at night. This exhibition recognizes how Coffey continually revisits traditional subjects in order to discover new meanings in her work.
“I’ve always been interested in representations of the feminine within the history of painting. Its history is something that interests me for many reasons. You might say that painting is a signifier for beauty itself, and the realm of the aesthetic. The subject of “feminine appearance” has also to do with categories of beauty and aesthetics. So I feel like these two things – painting and representations of women – are important to one another, and for me are worthy of a lifetime’s investigation. And it’s particularly interesting to me to be doing it as a woman when painting has been declared dead. As an act of resistance, I’m very interested in being a painter.”
You can see more of Susanna Coffey’s work here.
