This image from the Vase Series by abstract artist Susan Cornick will be part of a one-woman show opening at the BALE Commons in South Royalton on Friday, Jan. 27. (Provided)
Abstract artist Susan Cornick opens a one-woman show at the BALE Commons on South Windsor Street in South Royalton on Friday, Jan. 27 with an artist reception from 5-8 p.m.
Relatively new to South Royalton, Cornick describes her creative process as intuitive and spontaneous. Preferring on-the-spot responsiveness from the medium, and the materials she works with rather than preconception and improvisational expression over planned composition.
Much of her two-dimensional work, inspired by simple and complex combinations of color, texture, movement, shapes, edges and lines, and the interplay between pattern, scale, and the freedom of experimenting with different material, and spatial relationships between various compositional parts, the work evokes a three-dimensional quality.
Believing that common materials have their own beauty, her metal infused work, with lines and seams, composed of different found objects—bicycle inner tubes, steel wire, wood, paper, paint, found metal and other industrial detritus, are gracefully blended, twisted and formed into three-dimensional shapes. Cornick says she shrives for balance between the familiar and unexpected by combining elements in a harmonious way.
Cornick was born in Chicago, has a BA from Rutgers University, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She has exhibited widely including New York and Jersey City.
All are welcome to the opening reception. The show runs through March 15. For information, call 802-498-8438.