Page 188 - World of Art Contemporary Art magazine: The 2023 Guggenheim issue

EPIPTHANY, 2023 FREE STANDING ORGANIC ACRYLIC PAINTING-WAS ORIGINALLY A DIGITAL IMAGE I
CREATED AND THE DECIDED TO PAINT. 60X50 IN. | 152.4X127 CM. APROX.
FINE ART CULTURE EXPLODING BOX, UNFRAMED ORGANIC SHAPED WORK, 2023 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 50X48 IN. |
127X121.9 CM. APROX.
MR. JONES, INSPIRATION FROM BOB DYLANS LYRICS, 2023, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 30X40 IN. |
76.2X101.6 CM.
MY MORNING GARDEN (PLANTS IN MY YARD), 2023 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 50X48 IN. | 127X121.9 CM.

SUZAHN KING
Lives and works in Ojochal, Costa Rica
the_art_of _suzahn@instagram.com

Painters are poets with paint and canvas and painters are
sometimes the voice for those no one sees, no one speaks to,
the forgotten, the faceless and the modern day untouchable,
the disenfranchised. As Bob Dylan said, “I heard ten thousand
whispering and nobody listening, I heard one person starve, I heard
many people laughing, heard the song of a poet who died in the
gutter, heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley.”
I wish I could define in ten words or less why I paint, what motivates
me, what inspires me. Maybe the best way to explain it is that is I’m
a “paint junkie.” I love to paint; I can paint 10 hours of the day and
I’m happy. I can’t really say there is one artist that has influenced
my work; Lucien Freud , Andrew Wyeth and Ralph Goings, Winslow
Homer for their realistic style of painting and painters such as
Victor Vaserly whose abstract paintings intrigue me. (Excerpt)

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