Susan Wick: Through an Open Frame

2024年2月24日 - 3月30日

介绍

Wick’s fluid vocabulary of forms allow for a dynamic interplay of allegory and abstraction, with the ability to slide along the spectrum of becoming between the immaterial and recognizable forms.

David B. Smith Gallery is honored to present Through an Open Frame, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by the esteemed Denver and San Francisco-based artist Susan Wick. The exhibition, co-curated with Adam Gildar, celebrates Wick’s highly imaginative 50-year journey in art.

The symbols Wick employs in her oeuvre are a rich blend of the mundane and the extraordinary, with recurring motifs such as travel, domesticity, and nature, as well as mortality and loss. Among objects such as diving boards, philosophers stones, floral still lifes, potted trees, mountains, and various means of transport, figures populate unrealities as either humans or birds. Wick’s fluid vocabulary of forms allow for a dynamic interplay of allegory and abstraction, with the ability to slide along the spectrum of becoming between the immaterial and recognizable forms.

In a special event that further bridges the connection between the artist’s life and work, the gallery will host an open tour of ZWick Place, Wick’s home studio and living art installation in Denver, on March 9th from 5-8 pm. For the past 25 years, this warehouse, transformed by Wick’s hand and vision, has been a crucible of creativity for her, and the tour promises to offer a rare and personal insight into her artistic domain.

Through an Open Frame is a celebration of Susan Wick’s enduring legacy. Her profound output and life as a pioneering artist exemplifies that art is not the purview of only an innately gifted class of genius, but as a process available to anyone able to and commit to the practice of tuning to their own idiosyncratic inclinations. We invite you to experience the depth and breadth of her work at David B. Smith Gallery, where every frame is an invitation to explore boundless possibilities.