Susan Marie Dopp: Ether

Through her paintings, Susan Marie Dopp attempts to create a state akin to that of a meditation practice in her viewers.

Painted in acrylic gouache on unbleached muslin, these pieces involve geometric configurations and abstracted forms that are rooted in Islamic sacred geometry. Carefully composed in a borderless picture plane, reductive forms seem to float in and extend beyond the space the paintings occupy. They are expansive and ethereal. Complex relationships between color and form and the negative space within the picture plane create contemplative objects that are at the same time dynamic and serene.

Like traditional Tantric painting, these paintings rely on the analogy between the microcosm (the body) and macrocosm (the universe). They attempt, through reduction, to illustrate the unknowable quality of infinity.