Suzanne Schireson: Bright Ground
Each image is based on a mother or a caretaker, and I paint them a studio. Increasingly the buildings struggle to hold them, or the women get to work before the structure is even complete. This often leaves an open edge between architecture and landscape, no longer making the studio a fixed place.
To find intersections of caretaking, motherhood, and creative practice, many of my ideas are sourced by women in the history of the arts who were also parents, including Barbara Hepworth, Elizabeth Catlett and Ruth Asawa. I am interested in the context of caretaking as it relates to their creative lives and inhabited spaces. Pairing historic information with contemporary art, I regularly visit working artists in their studios who are also mothers. Our conversations help me break down a former perceived schism between motherhood and art.
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Each image is based on a mother or a caretaker, and I paint them a studio. Increasingly the buildings struggle to hold them, or the women get to work before the structure is even complete. This often leaves an open edge between architecture and landscape, no longer making the studio a fixed place.
To find intersections of caretaking, motherhood, and creative practice, many of my ideas are sourced by women in the history of the arts who were also parents, including Barbara Hepworth, Elizabeth Catlett and Ruth Asawa. I am interested in the context of caretaking as it relates to their creative lives and inhabited spaces. Pairing historic information with contemporary art, I regularly visit working artists in their studios who are also mothers. Our conversations help me break down a former perceived schism between motherhood and art.
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