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I love Suzanne Stryker's paintings, both the earlier earth-based landscapes, and the even more mystic spaces which she is exploring recently, invoking some of my favorite artists. I imagine her as an Odilon Redon of the Vedic realms, a Georgia O'Keefe of Vedic botany, except she is going places neither had the nervous system, or experience to explore up close, but could only evoke in a more general way from a distance. It is remarkable what Stryker is able to draw out from hidden realms, with her bold and centered eyes, her joyful heart. It is as if she is shining light into a world that shines right back at us, talks right back at us, except we rarely see it, rarely visit it, know little about it. This light creates the very thing it reveals. And what is to be revealed is teaching you to come to it -- by artistic impulse, by leaps of faith and insecurity, by delicate strokes and courage like the lamp at the door that does not flicker. Ever abiding in the Self, it seems she has undertaken a new journey into the Self. Stryker mentioned that an artist once suggested she avoid making pretty art. This may be general good advise, however, she cannot escape the inherent beauty of her vision, wherever she directs it. What I like in this redirect away from "pretty" is the fact her recent pieces are more raw, perhaps, a bit unfinished, off- center, off-balance, shedding safety net, mastery, and control, edging artist and viewer closer to danger, delivering both to the only true safe place in the universe. And, yes, still gorgeous through and through. |