Photo Courtesy of the Artist; Credit: Axel Dupeux
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SUSAN CHEN: RoomS By THe SeaExhibition On View: October 10, 2026 - February 21, 2027
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 17, 2026 from 2-5 PM Rooms by the Sea presents a new series by New York-based artist Susan Chen exploring the sublimity of the American landscape through richly hued, lusciously textured depictions of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, shown in dialogue with works by Edward and Josephine Hopper. Chen has visited the Cape every summer for the past ten years; her 2024 trip, intended as a lull after a busy period, instead sparked in her a restlessness. Processing the sensation through resonance with artists Barkley L. Hendricks in Jamaica, David Hockney in Yorkshire, Alex Katz in Maine, Henri Matisse in Corsica, and—most of all—Edward Hopper in Truro, she turned to her surroundings and began to paint. The resulting works unfold into an exploration of nostalgia, longing, the search for home, and the landscape as psychological self-portraiture, rendered through the tradition of en plein air painting. |
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Edward Hopper House is supported in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.