Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to announce the opening of “Persistent Mutualism,” the newest exhibition by abstract artist Susan Dory. Dory leaves behind the familiar capsule form that has been the hallmark of her brilliant and beautifully composed paintings for more than a decade. Marked by precisely delineated and layered capsules of color, Dory’s early work allowed her to explore her own highly personal memories through the use of color and specific color combinations. Similar to scent, she believes color to be a powerful trigger for memory and examines her own personal memories in these abstractions. Recently, Dory took these potent but static shapes and set them in motion to explore how they might interact in three dimensions. In this current series, she pushes these forms to their limit and they become almost unrecognizable; all that is left are the ideas of interdependence and interconnectedness that arose when she first set them in motion.

Dory begins each of these new works with an imagined horizon line, and on each side a struggle for balance and equilibrium is waged. The forms that inhabit this space are anything but static, and the same can be said for Dory’s ability to manipulate her acrylic medium. She is reticent to ascribe any one meaning to what she does, and instead refers to Marcel Duchamp, who felt that a work of art was not complete without the perception of the viewer when he or she starts asking questions. Far from any didactic intentions, Dory describes the process of making paintings as a luxury, a vacation from the every day. Getting lost in the depths of her creations, one can see why.

For further information, please contact Amanda Snyder at 212-255-2718.