Suzanne McClelland
@ Shane Campbell Gallery (Chicago)
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 16th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, November 13th
Suzanne McClelland will show paintings from several different bodies of work that continue her interest in the relationship between language and painting that she has explored since the early 1990s. For McClelland, language is not transparent and instead she emphasizes the extra-linguistic contextual cues in conversation in order to construct meaning from what is said. Words provide a visual structure in her paintings that are subject to endless physical and visual manipulation that push the limits of legibility. At times, language is blown into phonemic bits in ethereal compositions while in other instances letters appear as dense accumulations in compressed space. Words such as “nice” serve as empty rejoinders in conversation, while transitive verbs like “drill” or “bore” are rendered as physical objects denied of their ability to act on an object.
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