Susan Vecsey “Untitled (Cobalt/Indigo)” 2020 oil on canvas 34 x 60 inches. 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.’” #susanvecsey #vecsey #soloexhibition #oilonlinen #abstraction #abstracted #nycart #barnard #newyorkstudioschool #hamptons #nycart #artgallery #chelseagalleries #womenartists #contemporaryart #berrycampbell (at Berry Campbell) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDSjlB5FTKl/?igshid=ntfzohmkg6t3