Vestige
2023
Still Life | 2023–81, oil on canvas, 24 x 30
Still Life | 2023–72, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 | private collection
Still Life | 2023–48, oil on canvas, 12 x 14
Still Life | 2023–41, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 | private collection
Still Life | 2023–20, oil on canvas, 16 x 20
Still Life | 2023–17, oil on canvas, 12 x 12 | private collection
Still Life | 2023–16, oil on canvas, 12 x 12 | private collection
Still Life | 2023–19, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 | private collection
Still Life | 2023–74, oil on canvas, 30 x 24
Still Life | 2023–40, oil on canvas, 24 x 30
Archaic Animal Figure | 2023–47, oil on canvas, 12 x 12
Archaic Animal Figure | 2023–45, oil on canvas | private collection
In Vestige, Glenn Suokko explores ideas of time, erasure, rusticity, and the trace history of what remains in the application of paint and the removal of it. Here, technique and creative process are critical to the outcome: drawing, painting, scraping, stripping, and repainting are actions worked in layers over time in different sequences. In depicting subjects—utilitarian vessels, animals, eggs, lemons—the suggestion of a gesture, a line, or a form is preserved to emphasize a visual expression of something present or removed, the absence of something that once was, vestiges of what might be and now are.
