Convergence

2024

This body of recent work explores the relationship between land, sky, and the suggestion of trees, hills, and distant mountains that converge between them. Painted in bold painterly gestures, colors and values blend and collide, the surfaces are scratched, and layers of paint are removed to convey the rustic spirit of nature. Limiting his palette to a few colors eliminates Glenn Suokko’s instinct to render scenes with romantic realism, allowing a fresh, clean, contemporary interpretation of the expansive landscape outside his studio walls.