“Although the themes in Susana Attías’s paintings are presented in a variety of styles, her artistic goal remains singular and unique. Her work covers a wide range of geographical and historical references: from portraits of the founding fathers of various Latin American republics, Jewish rabbis, Arab belly dancers, Japanese icons, and urban oddities to bucolic rural landscapes. Susana, however, has always emphasized the luminous vitality of the Caribbean tropics; where color takes on the festive personality of its music and dances”…
…”It has been said that art cultivates art. In today’s dizzying postmodern world, this old vision is especially true in Susana’s works. The notion of hybridity, the idea of annotation, paying homage, and sometimes reworking old artistic currents has become incredibly popular and relevant. In the work of Susana Attías,
a Venezuelan-born artist living in New York, we see subjects appropriated from classical Western art and reworked within current themes and conceptual pieces”…
Extract from the presentation by Eduardo Marceles, Colombian writer and art critic, Curator and Multicultural Coordinator of the Queens Museum of Art in New York City. Translation: Daniel González Gómez
Susana Gordon 