Helen Harrison, New York Times,
“Susan Goetz Zwirn’s Landscape Boundaries, winner of an award, shows how abstraction can push a familiar scene to the limits of recognizability. Using unnaturally intense colors and faceted forms, the painter reinterprets a tranquil harbor in imaginative terms period.
painting
Ceramic sculpture, 26″ H, 22k gold leaf
Structural Integrity, Material Fatigue (Casés I), 2022
Watercolor and gouache on paper
30 x 41 inches
painting
9×12″ Oil
60X48 Oil and cold wax on board
“SKYSTAR” is an abstract photograph created in-camera through a combination of artificial light, long exposure, motion, and photographic techniques known as light painting. This approach has been a key part of my creative process for years, evolving through methods like capturing images from the passenger seat of a moving vehicle at night. Each light painting is unique, a spontaneous moment that can never be fully replicated.
The title “SKYSTAR” refers to the actual Ferris wheel at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, CA, which I photographed. While I often title my works based on the emotions, ideas, and inspirations that emerge during the creative process, “SKYSTAR” felt perfectly fitting from the start.
Photography _ 40″ x 40″ x 1.3″ _ Dye Infused Aluminum Print _ Limited Edition 1/10
40X50 Oil and cold wax on board
40X50 oil and cold wax on board
Art enables us to find ourselves
and lose ourselves at the same time.
~Thomas Merton
