As an artist, I am somewhat of a "stylistic nomad," with no aesthetic allegiances of any kind. I create by giving myself "assignments" or self-imposed projects that I explore in depth. By creating groups of related works in the same general idiom, I can work through their ramifications with great freedom. Although I believe all great art contains a strong spiritual and transcendent component, interpretations are ultimately left up to the viewer.
These three images, part of a series of ten, were loosely inspired by patterns found everywhere in nature (contours of clouds, wave ripples, the fluid dynamics of gasses and wind tunnel patterns, flame patterns, etc). All were created on the computer and are based on a series of former images of macroscopic photographs of soil, rocks, and leaves I had taken years ago. My goal was to transform them into complex, richly-colored kinetic designs that had no visual relationship to their former selves but that radiated a sense of poetic motion and interconnection.
Artist Bio
Born and raised in New York City, Susan Kaprov spent several years living and traveling abroad in the late 70's and mid eighties. She attended CUNY in New York City and Dartmouth College where she studied both science and fine arts. Her work ranges widely in both scale and media from large wall installations in glass to painted jigsaw puzzles, photography, drawings, and computer-generated images. She was recently featured in the photoGENEsis:Opus 2 exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Her work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. She has created major public commissions for such organizations as the Port Authority of New York, Metrotech Center in Brooklyn, and the General Services Administration, Washington DC. Reviews and articles about her work have appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Art News, Newsday, New York Arts/Berliner Kunst Magazine, the Village Voice, and other publications.
Susan Kaprov Brooklyn, NY s@kaprov.com www.kaprov.com
Title: Sorcerer 2004, Digital inkjet print, 42" x 36"
Title: Voices After Midnight 2004, Digital inkjet print, 42" x 36"
