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Copley Square Reflections #2 oil on canvas 30 x 46" |
Charles River Reflections #2 oil on canvas 36 x 48" |
Approaching the City oil on canvas 36 x 48" |
Night View #1 oil on canvas 32 x 48" |
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Windows and Doorways oil on canvas 40 x 48" |
Fifth Avenue Reflections oil on canvas 48 x 30" |
View From the World Trade Center, Looking North oil on canvas 52 x 40" |
Ocean Currents #1 oil & sand on canvas 40 x 30" |
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Ocean Currents #2 oil & sand on canvas 39 x 40" |
Night Colors oil on canvas 46 x 32" |
Night Jazz #2 oil on canvas 32 x 46" |
Night Lights #1 oil on canvas 36 x 48" |
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Copley Square Reflections oil on paper 26 x 41" |
Looking Down: Red oil on canvas 30 x 24" |
Mother at Dusk Oil on canvas 46 x 56" |
A Vision (after Giovanni Bellini) oil on canvas 48 x 48" |
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A Vision #3 (after G. Bellini) oil on canvas 40 x 56" |
Night Reflections with Figures oil on canvas 36 x 48" |
Hotel Room at Night: Standing Figure oil on canvas 30 x 40" |
Looking Down at Night oil on canvas 30 x 40" |
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Looking Down: Orange oil on canvas 30 x 40" |
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In the Deep With Butterfly oil on canvas 32 x 52" |
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River Collage oil and collage on canvas 50 x 44" Massachusetts General Hospital (Yawkey Pavillion) |
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Night Reflections: Inside/Outside Oil on canvas 36 x 48" |
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River Dance Oil on paper 44 x 30" |
River Flowers pastel 30 x 22" |
River Depths oil, charcoal, pastel on paper 44 x 30" |
Private Collection |
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Towards the Hudson Oil and collage on canvas 36 x 48" WolfBlock, Boston |
City of Prague #5 Drypoint monotype 12" x 18" |
Portrait of Oskar Kokoschka Charcoal & pastel 42" x 30" In this portrait of Oskar Kokoschka, the Austrian painter with whom I studied in Salzburg, I tried to capture his searching, quizzical expression. |
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Looking Toward the Hudson Mixed media 30" x 44" I have used collage elements from my monotypes and photos to create an energetic surface that suggests changes of light, mood and viewpoint. |
Fall Reflections Oil 40" x 50" ©1996 I enjoy looking into the waters and watching the changing colors and patterns. Private Collection |
Looking In Looking Out Oil 50" X 42" ©1995 I am sketching, taking photos, looking at the kaleidoscopic, color and motion filled world of New York. |
Window Reflections Oil 36" x 48" ©1993 This painting captures the movement of the city, with multiple images: a woman looks through a window, a boy rides a bike, as the light shifts. |
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Train Journey Oil & collage 24" x 48" ©1993 This work is inspired by the trip between Boston and New York, by the multiple views from the window and by memories of other journeys. Tudor Investments, Boston |
River Reflections #1 Oil and collage 42" x 60" ©1999 Metcalf and Eddy, Wakefield, MA |
River Reeds and Memory Oil and collage 48" x 60" ©1999 |
Sebago High Oil on canvas 48" x 58 |
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| These three paintings are inspired by natural rhythms, such as the effects of wind moving across water and the reflections of clouds, sky, and trees. The structure and colors of the landscape become charged and energized for me by the motion and constant change of these reflected forms.
I hope to suggest a correspondence between the marks I make on paper and canvas and the myriad elements of nature. I would also like to recreate in my work the feeling of immediacy and renewal I find in the natural world, and explore the deep connection I sense between my own life, the cyclic aspect of time and the rhythms of nature. |
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Summer Pond Oil 40" x 30" ©1998 Private Collection |
Metropolis Oil on canvas 48" x 48" |
Improvisation Windows #2 Oil on canvas 40" x 54" Varied perspectives combine images from the city, the landscape and the Bible. |
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Visions of Boston #1 Oil on paper 40" x 50" Federal Reserve Bank Collection |
Visions of Boston #2 Oil and collage 36" x 48" Federal Reserve Bank Collection |
Peace March New York City Oil on canvas 54" x 40" ©1982 |
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| In these two paintings, a commission for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, I use collage to suggest multiple impressions of the city. I have included some of my favorite places where people may gather such as the large open plaza of Copley Square, In Visions of Boston #2 I have included a glimpse of Post Office Square in Boston and have collaged suggestive fragments from my own photographs which enrich the paint surface. By combining such collage with the flux of abstract color, I want to suggest the historical texture of the city as well as the ever-changing appearance and feeling of the urban landscape. |
One of many paintings inspired by the June 12th Peace March in 1982 of 1 million people marching for a nuclear weapons freeze. Our group, Artists For Survival, designed the Save Life on Earth Posters that were carried by hundreds of citizens attending this moving and hopeful event. |
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American Ritual #1 Oil 44" x 48" ©1969 |
American Ritual #3 Oil 48" x 52" ©1969 |
American Ritual #5 Oil 30" x 40" ©1969 |
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| These paintings are about the numbed witnessing and public mourning after the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. The series is a closely organized group of eight canvases that begins with a realistic, multi-image treatment of the funerals and then evolves into more and more abstract and strongly expressionist compositions. | ||||||
All images © copyright Suzanne Hodes.