BIOGRAPHY

Suzanne Caporael is an American painter who lives and works in Stone Ridge, New York. Her elusive imagery – ranging from refined figuration to colour-field abstraction – derives from her methodical, persistent observation of the natural world. She is primarily interested in the collection and recollection of individual experience, and the way in which the brain processes visual information.

The artist begins work on a painting by producing collages made from colour swatches collected over the course of her career. These collages determine the final composition and its distinctive, highly-nuanced colour palette she produces by mixing raw pigment in the studio to achieve an unparalleled precision of hue and value. As Ken Johnson noted in the New York Times,

“Caporael’s paintings are a curious mix of the aesthetic and the conceptual. the paintings are sensuous and lyrical as well as rigorously formal.”

Caporael received both her BF and MFA from the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles. Her work is represented in many major museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Portland Museum of Art; the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others.