Lecture
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.
This presentation is part of the exhibition Becky Suss: The Dutch House.
All exhibition lecture tickets include same-day admission to The Baker Museum.