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David B. Smith Gallery is proud to announce its participation in NADA Miami with a solo booth featuring Denver-based artist Susan Wick (b. 1938). The gallery will present an immersive booth installed as a transposed version of the artist’s home studio, offering an intimate view into the private space of the artist, sharing a complete art environment where life and art coalesce, creating the opportunity to present her work in conversation with a new generation of emerging talent. Presenting works on canvas, wood, and paper from her 50 year career, Wick’s bold compositions use collage and textile elements whose visual and material qualities meet in perfectly disjointed harmony.
The symbols Wick employs in her oeuvre are a rich blend of the mundane and the extraordinary, with recurring motifs such as travel, domesticity, nature, and mortality and loss. Among characters and objects such as divers, creatures, philosophers stones, floral still lifes, imaginative furnishings, mountains, and various means of transport, figures populate unrealities as either humans or birds. Wick’s fluid vocabulary of forms allows for a dynamic interplay of allegory and abstraction, with the ability to slide along the spectrum of becoming between the immaterial and recognizable.
