Susanne Zuehlke

In the artist's words:

Susanne Zuehlke's painterly work is consistently abstract and is created in an additive, precisely controlled process. Her paintings develop from the successive placement of areas of color and a few, deliberately applied strokes of paint, which overlap and condense into a complex structure. Each painterly decision remains visible and is not corrected. Tension unfolds in the interplay of superimposition, density, rhythm and spatial staggering.

Zuehlke works with a deliberately multi-layered, color-intensive palette in which luminous and broken tones enter into a sensitive balance. Color does not function as a carrier of objectivity, but as an independent, structuring element. The color surfaces order, shift and open up the pictorial space without defining it. The painting dispenses with external references and concentrates entirely on the inner network of relationships between its painterly elements.

Meaning is created in the act of seeing itself - as a slow process of perceiving and exploring color, tension and balance. The works open up an open associative space and unfold a multitude of possible resonances on an emotional level.

Susanne Zuehlke studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe under Harry Kögler and Helmut Dorner as well as on a scholarship in Tucson, Arizona, under Robert H. Colescott. Her work has been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions and is represented in important collections.