Susannah Bielak is a printmaker in Minnesota whose Aerial Gaze series takes the viewer to look down on the subjects of the prints from above. This perspective allows the viewer to watch the subjects without their knowledge, while at the same time, allowing them to form and re-form as patterns rather than individuals. The bird’s eye view of an urban area is especially interesting as a sort of city choreography reveals itself on sidewalks and at bus stops. The movement of the life forms creates overlaps, the more shadowy figures in Bielak’s work. Maybe some of those street level coffeeshops should move upstairs …

Artist: Susannah Bielak
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Gaze Quartet- detail

Summer #23

#6 Quartet