Hyperglo, Susanna Starr

The upcoming exhibition, Hyperglo, is the latest iteration of the artist's ongoing physical exploration of color. Working in the fragile space between painting and sculpture, Starr seemingly suspends paint in mid-air, enabling color to inhabit form. The sculptures are formed of layered and painted cut outs of mylar, using images of vintage lace doilies as color skeletons. Entirely hand-cut out of Mylar, multiple slightly translucent sheets both absorb and reflect color - glowing and shifting as the viewer moves around them. Like an absorbent sponge, the open pores of the lace crete space for the color to move and change, creating a delicate 'peek-a-boo' game of transformation. Alluring and secretive, the pulsing color creates the effect that these pieces are both appearing and disappearing at the same time. In a NYFA Magazine article on Starr, Stacey Gottleib describes the artist's process as "Mylar offered a way of working with pigment in its purest form, each sheet like a single brushstroke of paint, layers of which, when hung together in her trademark, cunningly calculated tones, also opened up a previously unseen, inner dimension to the work."