Susan Vecsey at the Pollock-Krasner House

Susan Vecsey (b. 1971) draws from the traditions of Color Field and landscape painting to create abstractions from perception. Living and working in East Hampton, NY, Vecsey continues a tradition of abstraction informed by nature that is this region's legacy. While she creates her canvases utilizing pouring techniques from the Color Field tradition, the landscape or the figure is often a starting point, a vehicle to explore form and color. Compositions are simplified to their essence to create a universal image. Vecsey works like a watercolorist, using thinned oil paint, carefully poured in a wet on wet process. No brushes are used in the application, to avoid brush marks, and to better show the beauty of materials. “With poured paint, timing is everything, and it is important to be decisive with it, and also ready to accept or reject the unexpected.”

Born in Somerville, New Jersey, Vecsey was raised in a dual culture by parents who emigrated from Hungary to the US in 1969. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, and a Master of Fine Arts from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, studying under Graham Nickson. Vecsey has been exhibited alongside many notable artists including Josef Albers, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, James Brooks, Elaine de Kooning, Alfonso Ossorio, Charlotte Park, Perle Fine, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Jane Freilicher, Frank Bowling, Mary Heilmann, David Salle, Sean Scully and Jeffrey Gibson.

Vecsey is widely held in both public and private collections and is represented by Berry Campbell Gallery in New York.

To learn more about Susan and her work, visit her website at susanvecsey.com.