SUSAN VARJAVAND - Gallery 9, Los Altos CA
LIGHT’S PLEASURES - Landscapes in Oil
February 3 - March 1, 2015,
Artist Reception: Friday, February 6, 5 -7:30 P.M.
143
Main Street, Los Altos, 94022 (650) 941-7969
Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday, 11-5p. Sundays, 12-4p.
Susan
Varjavand’s new paintings explore the bay and hills. She paints to record how
she feels about light and depth, especially dawn and dusk. Playfulness with
light, the subject of this exhibit, is landscape telling how it soaks up light
to enjoy itself. Light makes palm fronds sparkle, quiets trees at dusk,
transforms a boulder’s color after rain, and gilds a valley, defining it as
Californian.
A
“colorist,” in the past Susan developed subjects such as the nude, “chair,” and
mud-brick architecture to convey inner life, attitudes, and the memory of
ancestors. In this exhibit, reworking favorites such as the bay and gestures of
tree limbs, she suggests freshness of the moment with the help of a a vivid
palette and sometime a palette knife.