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Susan Barrett

Susan Barrett Susan Barrett Susan Barrett

selected prints: drypoint with hand-coloring 2023-24

Collage from found materials

Process

"I work from memory, daydreams and a huge library of photographic images. Working in Photoshop or sometimes with printed photos, scissors and glue, I weave the images together.  I am trying to create single images that collectively represent my subjective experience. Often I simply paint using the collage as subject, but sometimes I want to play with focus and I transfer pieces of the photo directly onto the primed canvas and then begin to paint."

"leaving saugerties": acrylic on canvas with digital collage transfers 2023-25

"urban diary": acrylic paint, photo transfers with magazine scans (archival paper) on birch panel 2022-23

"HOUSE on the median" series: acrylic paint over digital collages transferred on canvas 2019-21

House on Median 1, acrylic on canvas, mixed media, 12 x 16 in. framed size
House on Median 2, acrylic on canvas, mixed media, 12 x 16 in. framed size

photo collages

About this work

Inspired in part by the Hockney Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, I created this  series of works--the Warburton Series-- which focused on the already significant role photography and time play in my work.  I took a walk down Warburton Ave.  in Hastings and shot almost one thousand photos. I often collage photos as maquettes to paint from, but in this case, I created digital collages as final images. 

Photo Collage, warburton series

Warburton 6, 102 hand-pasted snapshots, 20 1/2 x 32 in.

mixed media, painting & collage: devries series


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