BIOGRAPHY
SUSAN WEIL’S MIXED-MEDIA WORKS address the plastic quality of time and space through processes of cutting, crumpling and refiguring her compositions. In allowing the viewer’s eye to contemplate a series of moments and perspectives at once, Weil generously gives an almost omniscient power to the viewer, as well as a sense not of fractured time by of a more truthful depiction of genuine experience. Weil has influenced many in the Abstract Expressionist movement—especially her ex-husband, Robert Rauschenberg, with whom she collaborated on many projects, most notably their 1950 blueprints.
Her work is in many major international museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden; Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California; and the Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina.
Susan Weil with Self Portrait, 2000. Photo by José Betancourt
BIOGRAPHY
SUSAN WEIL’S MIXED-MEDIA WORKS address the plastic quality of time and space through processes of cutting, crumpling and refiguring her compositions. In allowing the viewer’s eye to contemplate a series of moments and perspectives at once, Weil generously gives an almost omniscient power to the viewer, as well as a sense not of fractured time by of a more truthful depiction of genuine experience. Weil has influenced many in the Abstract Expressionist movement—especially her ex-husband, Robert Rauschenberg, with whom she collaborated on many projects, most notably their 1950 blueprints.
Her work is in many major international museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden; Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California; and the Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina.
Susan Weil with Self Portrait, 2000.
Photo by José Betancourt
