Susan York FRSS

Growing up in the American West, a place with wide mesas, mud buildings, and a large sky, has inspired my practice of working with primary elements, properties, and structures. The spare landscape of my home in New Mexico provides a vast expanse to contemplate the phenomena of light and traces of geologic time embedded in the typography of the high mountain desert and canyon lands.

My longstanding interest in reducing structure to the most essential of elements has also been motivated in large part by the artists of the Constructivist and de Stijl movements. I am particularly compelled by methodologies for translating two-dimensional shapes to three-dimensional form. The recurrent question of what determines flatness and how we perceive dimension foreshadows an entire series of relational geometric sculpture that spans my early career to present-day body of work.