SUSAN YORK

In her works, the American artist Susan York continues the tradition of ‘minimal art’ in an innovative way. She is inspired by, among other things, the light conditions, the vast emptiness and the desert landscape she finds at her place of work in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
For both the three- and two-dimensional works, the artist layers, casts, rubs and polishes graphite for days on end under great physical and meditative exertion. She then positions the deep black, asymmetrically alienated geometric objects in space in a targeted manner so that a dialogue with the architecture can develop. In the two-dimensional works, the empty surface takes the place of the architecture, and the grey to black geometric surfaces are placed on it in a targeted manner, often offset from the centre. With her graphite works York creates a two- or three-dimensional tension-laden “unspace” that invites us to contemplation.
In 2016 Susan York’s works were shown for the first time at the Galerie Wenger