Berry Campbell Gallery is pleased to announce a special exhibition of recent paintings by Susan Vecsey. The show title, In Between, recognizes the contrasting times in which these paintings were created, before and during the pandemic, while also referring to the fine line between abstraction and representation in Vecsey’s work. This exhibition will include fifteen new pieces, including her most recent exploration with collage. This is Berry Campbell’s fourth exhibition of Susan Vecsey’s work since announcing her representation in 2014. Concurrent with her exhibition at the gallery, Vecsey is part of a group exhibition at the Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, entitled, blue, curated by Museum Director, Charles A. Riley II, Ph.D. In addition to Vecsey, other artists in the show are Helen Frankenthaler, Yves Klein, Henri Matisse, and contemporary artists including Sean Scully. This exhibition opens at Berry Campbell’s Chelsea location on July 9, 2020 and runs through August 21, 2020.
In an essay written for Susan Vecsey’s Greenville County Museum of Art solo exhibition catalogue, Phyllis Tuchman writes: “Vecsey’s abstractions call to mind both Color Field paintings as well as landscapes. They exist somewhere in the middle, neither one nor the other. For starters, instead of working with acrylic pigments and yards of unstretched canvas as a Color Field artist might do, Vecsey executes her evocative pictures the old-fashioned way. To linen surfaces, she applies layers of oil pigments. Depending on the weather, it can take days for each plane of color she has thinned with turpentine to dry. Occasionally, she makes larger works in a diptych format. As it is, to get started, she relies on a few academic basics. She makes small charcoal drawings on the spot; and after that, pastels and color studies before she ever picks up any brushes, sponges, rags, or pour buckets. Then, she improvises. She once said that you need to be, ’ready to accept or reject the unexpected.’”
A painter interested in creating lyrical and poetic themes, Susan Vecsey uses iconic imagery derived from nature. Gabrielle Selz wrote: “Inspired by painters like Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, and Helen Frankenthaler—all of whom explored the variance of tonality on limited compositional formats—Vecsey creates work that is filled with ideas about arrangement, lyrical color, perspective, repetition and surface.”
Susan Vecsey was born in New Jersey and currently lives and works in both New York City and East Hampton, New York. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, and her Master of Fine Arts from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, studying under Graham Nickson. In 2012, Vecsey was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. In 2017, Susan Vecsey had a solo museum exhibition at the Greenville County Museum in South Carolina, featuring numerous large-scale paintings. That same year, the John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor, New York, presented another solo exhibition of Vecsey’s paintings and works on paper. In reference to Vecsey’s 2014 show at Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, a review in Artcritical reads: “this is virtuoso painting.” Vecsey’s work was featured in Guild Hall Museum’s 2014 Selections from the Permanent Collection curated by Museum Director/Chief Curator, Christina Strassfield, alongside Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Balcomb Greene, Mary Heilmann, and David Salle.
She has collaborated with numerous architects and designers, including David Scott Interiors, New York, Mabley Handler Design, Water Mill, New York, and Daniel Kahan, Smith and Moore Architects, Palm Beach, Florida. In recent years, the distinguished design dealers, Lee Jofa and Brunschwig & Fils, have used several of her paintings in advertising campaigns. Vecsey has been featured in magazines such as Architectural Digest, Hamptons Magazine, and Veranda.
Susan Vecsey’s paintings are widely held in public and private collections around the world. In addition to the exhibition at the Nassau County Museum of Art, she is currently part of the Members Exhibition at Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton. Recently, Vecsey participated in Drive-by-Art (Public Art in the Time of Social Distancing) in the Hamptons (catalogue forthcoming), which was featured in the New York Times. Susan Vecsey is exclusively represented by Berry Campbell Gallery in New York.
In an essay written for Susan Vecsey’s Greenville County Museum of Art solo exhibition catalogue, Phyllis Tuchman writes: “Vecsey’s abstractions call to mind both Color Field paintings as well as landscapes. They exist somewhere in the middle, neither one nor the other. For starters, instead of working with acrylic pigments and yards of unstretched canvas as a Color Field artist might do, Vecsey executes her evocative pictures the old-fashioned way. To linen surfaces, she applies layers of oil pigments. Depending on the weather, it can take days for each plane of color she has thinned with turpentine to dry. Occasionally, she makes larger works in a diptych format. As it is, to get started, she relies on a few academic basics. She makes small charcoal drawings on the spot; and after that, pastels and color studies before she ever picks up any brushes, sponges, rags, or pour buckets. Then, she improvises. She once said that you need to be, ’ready to accept or reject the unexpected.’”
A painter interested in creating lyrical and poetic themes, Susan Vecsey uses iconic imagery derived from nature. Gabrielle Selz wrote: “Inspired by painters like Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, and Helen Frankenthaler—all of whom explored the variance of tonality on limited compositional formats—Vecsey creates work that is filled with ideas about arrangement, lyrical color, perspective, repetition and surface.”
Susan Vecsey was born in New Jersey and currently lives and works in both New York City and East Hampton, New York. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, and her Master of Fine Arts from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, studying under Graham Nickson. In 2012, Vecsey was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. In 2017, Susan Vecsey had a solo museum exhibition at the Greenville County Museum in South Carolina, featuring numerous large-scale paintings. That same year, the John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor, New York, presented another solo exhibition of Vecsey’s paintings and works on paper. In reference to Vecsey’s 2014 show at Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, a review in Artcritical reads: “this is virtuoso painting.” Vecsey’s work was featured in Guild Hall Museum’s 2014 Selections from the Permanent Collection curated by Museum Director/Chief Curator, Christina Strassfield, alongside Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Balcomb Greene, Mary Heilmann, and David Salle.
She has collaborated with numerous architects and designers, including David Scott Interiors, New York, Mabley Handler Design, Water Mill, New York, and Daniel Kahan, Smith and Moore Architects, Palm Beach, Florida. In recent years, the distinguished design dealers, Lee Jofa and Brunschwig & Fils, have used several of her paintings in advertising campaigns. Vecsey has been featured in magazines such as Architectural Digest, Hamptons Magazine, and Veranda.
Susan Vecsey’s paintings are widely held in public and private collections around the world. In addition to the exhibition at the Nassau County Museum of Art, she is currently part of the Members Exhibition at Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton. Recently, Vecsey participated in Drive-by-Art (Public Art in the Time of Social Distancing) in the Hamptons (catalogue forthcoming), which was featured in the New York Times. Susan Vecsey is exclusively represented by Berry Campbell Gallery in New York.
