The Baker Museum presents Becky Suss
Artist’s Talk
Becky Suss, artist
Join exhibiting artist Becky Suss for an artist talk related to her solo exhibition at The Baker Museum, Becky Suss: The Dutch House. Suss will discuss her artistic career as a painter of detailed scenes that represent the interiority of psychological space and how literature has become a touchstone across her different bodies of work. In her “book” paintings, a tome’s form acts as both a repository for her own identity and values, and as metaphors for upwardly mobile ambitions such as education and intellectualism. When her son was born, Suss began referencing children’s and young adult fiction to protest the marginalization of child-rearing. She used the world of formative literature to elevate domestic spaces, standing in direct response to generations of women in her family who suppressed their artistic and intellectual aspirations to assume traditional homemaking roles.
All exhibition lecture tickets include same-day admission to The Baker Museum.
Becky Suss
Becky Suss
Becky Suss was born in 1980 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she currently lives and works. In 2020, she was awarded the prestigious Pew Fellowship by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. In 2022, a comprehensive monograph on her practice, Becky Suss, was released in partnership with Skira Publishing. Suss’ work has recently been acquired by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Princeton University Art Museum. In 2023, Suss was included in To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood at the ICA Boston, and her solo exhibition Home was on view at the Contemporary Dayton. She received an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, a B.A. from Williams College and, in 2013, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Suss is represented by the Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
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