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Urban Soliloquy 23<\/em>
54″x46″; vintage papers, acrylic, and oil stick on canvas; 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Susan Reedy
Buffalo, New York, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My work addresses the theme of ephemerality, and seeks the beautiful and the sublime in unexpected places. It evokes the unconventional beauty of weathered urban exterior surfaces that have accrued layers of posters, fliers, accidental mark-making, and graffiti. Of particular interest to me are urban walls, doorways, and advertisement posters, where layers of newly accumulated paper and text are partially torn away to reveal portions of what lies beneath the surface, alluding to remnants of the past and the present simultaneously. Layers of text and imagery emerge and recede, creating palimpsest surfaces that reflect the passage of time, exposure to the elements, and benign neglect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My practice is process-oriented, resulting in a complex surface involving multiple layers of material and information. I repurpose discarded vintage papers, posters, dictionary, lexicon, and sheet music pages and use them in combination with paint and various drawing materials. I am drawn to source material that has a sense of history to it, particularly things that are perceived as being imperfect. Papers and books that are torn, marked on, held together with string or tape, anything that shows that the object has had a history and life of its own as it is passed from one hand to another is of interest to me. By selecting these abandoned and overlooked objects, my practice both transforms and elevates essentially discarded ephemera, once functional in our society, now obsolete as we have marked the shift from analog to digital formats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Reedy\u2019s collage-based work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues that include the Buffalo AKG Museum, Pierogi Gallery, The Border Project Space, Equity Gallery, Anna Kaplan Contemporary, Islip Art Museum, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, and OK Harris Gallery. Her work has been featured in ArtMaze<\/em> and Kolaj<\/em> magazines, and was selected for Kolaj Magazine<\/em>\u2019s \u201cCollage Artist Trading Cards Pack 8.\u201d Reedy\u2019s work was included in Luis Camnitzer\u2019s project \u201cThe Last Book,\u201d which traveled to multiple international venues, and Molly Sampson\u2019s public art project \u201cPost No Bills\u201d in Huntington, New York. Her work is in multiple private and public collections, including the Castellani Art Museum, Memorial Art Gallery, Mobil Corporation, and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMAIL<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a> | INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Urban Soliloquy 22<\/em>
46″x36″; vintage papers, acrylic, and oil stick on canvas; 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vestige 10<\/em>
44″x46″; vintage papers, acrylic, and oil stick on canvas; 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/a>Urban Narrative 22<\/em>
40″x32″; vintage papers, acrylic, and oil stick on canvas; 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Urban Narrative 23<\/em>
54″x46″; vintage and contemporary papers, acrylic, and oil stick on canvas; 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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