(1974- )
Suzanne Song (b.1974) lives and works in New York. She explores the familiar notion “Space” which does not exist in a single form but rather in an incorporeal and abstract subject. As Ferdinand de Saussure(1857-1913, Switzerland) insisted that the relation between the signifer and the signifed is arbitrary, Song’s “Space” can be intuitive at the same time considerably receptive.
She sets up a cognitively familiar environment in order to create her own space. She situates the white or light grey colours on the upper part of a canvas and arranges the dark monotoned ones on the below with a balanced proportion. This composition plays as a mechanism reminding of walls of offices or schools that are in an identical appearance in many cultures. When lines vertically traverse in a space, they cast shadows on the background which is a standard plane. The shadows convert the two-dimensional space into multidimensional one and stimulate the dynamics of geometric relationships between spaces and spaces, lines and faces, and the horizontal and the vertical.
Suzanne Song studied at Yale University (MFA) and Clemson University and presented her works at The Drawing Center (NY), Doosan Art Center(NY), and so on. She also is selected by Smack Mellon Fellowship, George R. Bunker Award(Yale School of Art) and NYFA(New York Foundation of the Arts) Fellowship.