Suzanne Caporael

Born in Brooklyn, New York; lives and works in Stone Ridge, NY Suzanne Caporael is nationally known as one of America's most exciting artists and has been printing at Tandem Press since 1996. Her Salt Marsh Suite and Hudson River Series explore the temporal beauty of the estuary along with the structural template of water itself, that place of exchange at the very edge between the river and sea, where the tide meets the current and civilizations are born. Caporael investigates the physical world and transforms the intellectual and methodical data she has collected into sublime and resonate images. In 1999 when Caporael moved back to New York, she became interested in the properties in snow. Snow led to ice, ice lead to sea ice, and she developed a particular interest in pack ice. Continuously drifting under the influence of wind, tide, and current, the ice breaks into tension and compression zones, sometimes producing navigable openings (shore leads, flaw leads) and at other times fracturing hummocking, ridging, and rafting. SUZANNE CAPORAEL was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1949. Her work derives from close observation of the natural world and the attempts—scientific and cultural—to define and control it. Observation coupled with research has resulted in groups of paintings related to trees, chemical elements, water, ice, time and place memory. As noted in the New York Times, “Caporael’s paintings are a curious mix of the aesthetic and the conceptual...the paintings are sensuous and lyrical as well as rigorously formal.” Caporael continues to create paintings that both display and invoke a discipline of thought. The artist earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. She had her first show at thirty-five, when then Director Paul Schimmel debuted her work at the Newport Harbor Art Museum (now the Orange County Museum of Art).