Susan Ker-Seymer: Some Kind Of Love

CRITIC'S PICK: Some Kind Of Love, Marcia Wood Gallery — Susan Ker-Seymer’s latest
exhibition marks her debut at this Buckhead gallery The show runs from
Saturday, June 6 through Saturday, July 25, with an artist’s opening
reception on Saturday, June 6, between 6 to 9 p.m. In her artist’s
statement, Ker-Seymer describes her motivation for this collection of work
— and its complexities. “In quiet resistance to a culture that privileges
consumption and polished resolution, I am drawn to visual languages that
acknowledge instability, incompleteness, and change. Rather than seeking
fixed conclusions, I work within moments of transition — states where
meaning remains open, provisional, and alive.
“In the exhibition - Some Kind Of Love - love enters here not as sentiment,
but as a way of holding contradiction. It asks how opposites might coexist:
attraction and aversion, tenderness and friction, beauty and truth. I am
interested in how a painting can be both alluring and unsettling at once —
how pleasurable color and buoyant form can also carry tension,
uncertainty, and provocation. In this sense, love becomes a practice of
staying present with complexity rather than seeking to resolve it.
“Through these paintings, opposing forces are realized through shifts in
scale, spatial arrangement, layering, and chromatic contrast. Forms of
varying sizes float close to the surface, jostling for relation and position.
Warm and cool colors bring lightness and movement, while inexplicable
elements emerge from behind, drift across the field, or press at the edges.
The crowded compositions invite viewers to make sense of relationships
poised on the edge of entropy or at the threshold of a new world.”
This exhibition is presented in tandem with George Long’s newest
offerings, Spoilia.
The gallery is located Shops of Miami Circle , 761 Miami Cir NE D, Atlanta,
GA 30324 — Tony Paris