Suki Kuss – Music City
TAG gallery is proud to present Music City, a series of textural mixed media femmage works by Suki Kuss. The exhibition will run from July 9 – August 3rd with a reception on Saturday, July 13th from 5-8 PM.
Over the last few years Kuss has amassed a collection of vintage articles and ephemera, often finding inspiration in domestic objects such as lace, glossy baubles, fabrics, patterns, sheet music, and textile squares. Through this exploration a developed, symbiotic relationship with the materials formed, allowing for new patterns and imagery to be revealed in lightly drawn geometry and the often wide and muted negative space.
Materiality plays an integral role in these works as well, often being the driving force narratively. Through careful investigation Kuss found that some of the sheet music she’s collected contained hand-written messages and diary like entries written over the musical notes. Using these stories as a guide, each canvas then found Kuss embedding and intermixing her own personal narrative with the women of the past in an almost melodic and rhythmic fashion. Music City is a surgery of sorts, the kind that finds Kuss patching, revisiting, and weaving through her own sense of personal history in order to connect with the past to make sense of what our world is today.
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Linda Sue Price – Light in Motion
Through the use of animating neon tubes, Light in Motion explores the tension between an internal desire for peace and tranquility as contrasted with the external reality of change and chaos.
There are two series shown here—Focus and Chaos. In the Focus pieces the neon animates in slow movements that are almost musical. In contrast the Chaos work animates wildly and energetically.The spiral shape used in the Focus pieces historically represents expanding awareness. The chosen colors and gentle animation were designed to illustrate the practice of yoga; and the enlightenment found there.
In the Chaos work, it’s all about disruption from politics to nature. All the pieces in this series are designed to animate wildly. In Flood, there is a sense of surging water, in Fire—a crackling fire. The Lies pieces suggest the motions and energy of mockery.
This is the world we live in. We seek peace while being battered by chaos.
After two years of art school and a degree in journalism, Linda Sue Price went on to work in television production and motion graphics for several years. A neon art class taught at the Museum of Neon Art in 2003 inspired her to pursue neon as an art making media. She found similarities in the luminous light of both, the use of animation and in the infrastructure of wiring.
