Abba Fine Art is proud to announce that acclaimed Los Angeles based artist Suzan Woodruff will be presented in two exhibitions at the gallery in the following season. Woodruff will be featured in a December group show, which will be followed with a January solo exhibition of paintings, entitled Forces of Nature. This series of work represents an elegant evolution of her unique, emotionally and spiritually complex style of Flow abstraction.  Suzan Woodruff was recently dubbed by Art Lld. Magazine editor George Melrod, in a cover article, as one of the leaders of the new Flow painters; the group that renowned critic Peter Frank named and first assembled in several major exhibitions.

Woodruff simultaneously gives expression to both the world she inhabits and the world she experiences – the universe of tangible form and the overlapping but distinct metaverse of pure energy. In Nature, she has discovered a viable armature on which to overlay both levels of existence. Her use of horizon lines, mirror imaging, proportion and perspective are modes within the landscape idiom. However, the sensual movements and conjoining of unlikely azure gestures, dusky magenta highlights and calligraphic impastos of emerald that punctuate her sweeping color fields keep the compositions tethered to pure abstraction.

The primary conduit of both light and memory in her work is color. Like Malevich, Kandinsky, Rothko and even Roland Barthes, Woodruff understands that colors are not only physical expressions of light and space, but have psychological dimensions as well; they trigger unconscious associations ranging from the sexual to the sublime. This realization renders abstract formalism, a compelling enough subject for a painter like Woodruff who insists on leaving space for each individual viewer’s narrative projection to complete her work’s meaning for themselves.

Suzan Woodruff, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, received an artist scholarship, and attended Arizona State University (ASU). Her work has been exhibited in gallery and museum exhibitions the US, Europe and Asia. She is a recipient of an NEA grant (AZ commission for the Arts) and numerous artist residencies. Her work has been collected in museum, corporate and private collections such as the House of Saud, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, Ibrahim Alkazi (The Sepia Collection), Martin and Norma Stevens, Michael Korie; The Scottsdale Center for the Arts, City of Mesa Cultural Center, The Sanskriti Foundation, AT&T, Sperry Rand, SONY, Warner Bothers and many more. Woodruff has been reviewed most favorably in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly and Artweek.
 
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About Abba Fine Art:
Abba Fine Art’s objective is to showcase samples of the diversity found in the creative flow of today’s contemporary art scene. The gallery stable includes works from artists that deal with different aesthetics as well as ideological dynamics. The subjects represent different aspects of life, ranging from the organic and natural to the psychological, figurative and pop culture references.