Suzanne caporael biography

SUZANNE CAPORAEL was.
SUZANNE CAPORAEL was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1949.
Suzanne Caporael (born 1949) is an American artist.

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Suzanne Caporael

Born in Brooklyn, New York; lives and works in Stone Ridge, NY Suzanne Caporael is nationally known as one of America's most exciting artists and has been printing at Tandem Press since 1996. Her Salt Marsh Suite and Hudson River Series explore the temporal beauty of the estuary along with the structural template of water itself, that place of exchange at the very edge between the river and sea, where the tide meets the current and civilizations are born. Caporael investigates the physical world and transforms the intellectual and methodical data she has collected into sublime and resonate images. In 1999 when Caporael moved back to New York, she became interested in the properties in snow. Snow led to ice, ice lead to sea ice, and she developed a particular interest in pack ice. Continuously drifting under the influence of wind, tide, and current, the ice breaks into tension and compression zones, sometimes producing navigable openings (shore leads, flaw leads) and at other times fracturing hummocking, ridging, and rafting. SUZANNE CAPORAEL was born in Brookly

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Suzanne Caporael - Vasari’s Artists: Uccello (1397–1475)

Suzanne Caporael is an artist most known for her exceptional prints, often abstract, that cover a variety of subjects. However, her series titled Vasari’s Artists is different from many of her other prints. At first glance, each print in the series appears to be a portrait of an individual. However, these prints do not portray a likeness to the subjects they are named for, raising confusion among viewers. For example, in Caporael’s Vasari’s Artists: Uccello (1397-1475), the figure is depicted in a traditional portrait style, shown from the shoulders up. The figure has an elongated face, chiseled chin, and dark hair. One eyebrow appears to be raised and the eyes focus directly at the viewer, seemingly in anger or despair. This work, rather than representing a likeness of Uccello, the artist for whom the work is named, instead represents something else. Uccello represents Suzanne Caporael’s process and gives insight into the mindset of a talented contemporary printmaker, one who would be so inclined to create a port

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SUZANNE CAPORAEL was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1949. Her work derives from close observation of the natural world and the attempts—scientific and cultural—to define and control it. Observation coupled with research has resulted in groups of paintings related to trees, chemical elements, water, ice, time and place memory.

As noted in The New York Times, “Caporael’s paintings are a curious mix of the aesthetic and the conceptual...the paintings are sensuous and lyrical as well as rigorously formal.” Caporael continues to create paintings that both display and invoke a discipline of thought.

The artist earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA. She had her first show at thirty-five, when then Director Paul Schimmel debuted her work at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (now the Orange County Museum of Art). She was awarded a National Endowment grant in painting in 1986, and has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2009 she was a guest artist-in-residence at the Jo