Vestige
In this presentation of paintings, 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 is critical to the outcome: drawing, painting, scraping, stripping, and repainting are actions worked in layers over time in different sequences. In depicting subjects ranging from utilitarian vessels and archaic animal figures to organic patterns and minimalist abstractions, the suggestion of a gesture, a line, or a form is preserved to emphasize a visual expression of something present or removed to suggest the absence of something that once was—vestiges of what might be and now are.
2023
Several of these paintings are now in private collections; inquire about available work.
Still Life, 2023–041, 24 x 24
Private collection
Still Life, 2023–16, 12 x 12
Private collection
Still Life, 2023–17, 12 x 12
Private collection
Still Life, 2023–40, 24 x 30
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Still Life, 2023–20, 16 x 20
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Still Life, 2023–74, 30 x 24
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Still Life, 2023–19, 24 x 30
Private collection
Still Life, 2023–48, 12 x 14
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Archaic Animal Figure, 2023–45, 14 x 18
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Archaic Animal Figure, 2023–47, 12 x 12
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Archaic Animal Figure, 2023–50, 12 x 12
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Archaic Animal Figure, 2023–46, 12 x 12
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Still Life, 2023–72, 24 x 30
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