Suzanne Sbarge

My current work explores my continued fascination with the combination of painting and collage. Abstract painting and narrative collage compositions merge into their own hybrid space in these pieces. Birds, plants, figures, faces, and an array of bits and pieces of the natural world inhabit a menagerie of houses and dream-like scenes. Ever-present in these pieces is the tension between the seeming opposites of familiarity and otherworldliness, interior and exterior space, domesticity and freedom, sky and earth, real and imagined.

The juxtaposition of paint and collage gives a sense of altered vision. This “collaged state of mind” – the dialogue between the real and the surreal – is what I look for in my own process and what I also hope the viewer experiences. As life speeds up and the modern world fractures our attention, art creates breathing space for the soul.

web site: www.suzannesbarge.com/

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