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Suzan Woodruff paints as if with watercolors, the pigments seeping and blooming to fill the space allotted, but the intensity of the colors betrays their painterly origin. The series of small paintings on paper (shown with the rhythmic, muscular neo-abstract expressionist paintings of Micheal Braden) are a quantum leap past Woodruff's earlier large canvases. It's not the downsizing that does it, it's the controlled compositional formula, one that at once confines and empowers Woodruff's mind and hand, that focuses it into a set of variations, spacious (despite the size) and contemplative. Indeed, the roiling, aqueous shapes and sharply delineated horizon line give these works the air of seascapes - even though blue is one of the colors Woodruff uses least. |