Susan Marie Dopp: SUSAN MARIE

Bay area painter Susan Marie Dopp’s works on mulberry paper represent a recent and enlightened departure from her figurative past. Dopp’s new oeuvre finds balance in the application of boldly painted spaces on fields of fine-spun paper. The result is crisp compositions of patterned events.

Some works develop according to established or self-generated systems, such as geometric spirals fanning out in a Fibonacci sequence or ruled lines germinating from seeds set in a gridded plane. Others beautifully exploit the tension created in her paper as pigment dries on its surface such that the work both objectively and subjectively transcends its two dimensional surface.

Notwithstanding any one work’s inspiration or architecture, Dopp activates the page as skillfully as she does the mind.