Susan Vecsey was born in New Jersey and currently lives and works in both New York City and East Hampton, New York. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York and her Master of Fine Arts from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, studying under Graham Nickson. In 2012, Vecsey was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Vecsey had a solo museum exhibition at the Greenville County Museum, South Carolina, in 2017 that was accompanied by an exhibition catalogue with an essay by Phyllis Tuchman. “Unlike, say, Fairfield Porter, another East End artist, Vecsey is less involved with the here and now. She’s not recording the details of daily life. She’s reminding you of places where you have been. With swooping curves, extended horizon lines, and a mix of tonal colors, Vecsey’s compelling images have the character of memories, recollections, reveries. You’re revisiting sites of pleasure and wonderment.”In 2017, The John Jermain Memorial Library, the Public Library of Sag Harbor, presented an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Susan Vecsey. Evoking memories of her home near Cedar Point, Vecsey’s abstract paintings recall memories of the landscapes and seascapes of her surroundings.A painter interested in creating lyrical and poetic themes, Susan Vecsey uses iconic imagery derived from nature. In a recent review, Gabrielle Selz writes, “Inspired by painters like Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery and Helen Frankenthaler—all of whom explored the variance of tonality on limited compositional formats—Vecsey creates work that is filled with ideas about arrangement, lyrical color, perspective, repetition and surface.” References to representational imagery are a starting point, a vehicle to convey a certain emotion and to explore color, form, and shape. Vecsey states, “There is a great pleasure in the whole process of creating from the anticipation, the processing to the realization.” Vecsey’s oil-stained linen and paper works carry on the color field and minimalist traditions in a contemporary context. She begins with charcoal studies in which she draws her perceptive ideas on paper and then creates elaborate color studies. Afterwards Vecsey thins oil paint and pours it directly on to primed linen or paper allowing it to flow naturally with some guidance from the artist. Vecsey says, “With poured paint, timing is everything, and it is important to be decisive with it, and also ready to accept or reject the unexpected.”Susan Vecsey recently has been creating more dramatic abstract compositions, using bolder geometric shapes, while keeping her quintessential soft edges and areas of raw linen exposed. Many of these new works are large-scale. In reference to Vecsey’s 2014 solo show at Berry Campbell, Franklin Einspruch declares, “this is virtuoso painting.”Susan Vecsey’s work was featured in Guild Hall Museum’s 2014 Selections from the Permanent Collection curated by Christina Strassfield, alongside Balcomb Greene, Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, and Mary Heilmann. Mabley Handler Design, Bridgehampton, incorporated Vecsey’s paintings in the 2014 Hamptons Holiday House. In recent years, the distinguished design dealers, Lee Jofa and Brunschwig & Fils, have used several of her paintings in advertising campaigns. Vecsey has been featured in magazines such as Architectural Digest, Hamptons Magazine and Veranda. Susan Vecsey’s paintings are widely held in public and private collections around the world. CVBorn 1971, Somerville, New JerseyLives and works in New York City and East Hampton, New YorkEDUCATIONMFA, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & SculptureStudy with Graham Nickson.BA, Barnard College, Columbia University, New YorkContinuing Study, Museum of Modern Art, The New School, International Center of Photography, New YorkSELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONSQuogue Gallery, Quogue, New York, 2019Berry Campbell, New York, 2018Greenville County Museum, South Carolina, 2017John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor, New York, 2017Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 2017Berry Campbell, New York, Recent Paintings, 2016Berry Campbell, New York, Recent Paintings, 2014Quogue Gallery, New York, Recent Paintings, 2014Spanierman Gallery, New York, Recent Paintings, 2010 Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, New York, Light of Spring, 2009Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, New York, New Paintings, 2008SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONSGuild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, Guild Hall 81st Annual Artist Members Exhibition, 2019.Art Wynwood, Berry Campbell, 2018Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary, Berry Campbell, 2018Art Miami, Berry Campbell, 2017Berry Campbell, Summer Selections, 2017Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary, Berry Campbell, 2017Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, Artist Members Exhibition, 2017Art Miami, Berry Campbell, 2016Berry Campbell, Something (curated by Noah Becker), 2016Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, Artist Members Exhibition, 2016Berry Campbell, Summer Selections, 2016Art Southampton, Art Fair, Berry Campbell Gallery, 2015, 2016Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, Artist Members Exhibition, 2015Berry Campbell, Summer Selections, 2015Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, New Additions to the Permanent Collection, 2010-2014 2014Art Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Berry Campbell, 2014Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 2014Berry Campbell, Year in Review, New York, 2014Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, 75th Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition, 2014Spanierman Modern, New York, Modern Selections, 2013Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, First Impressions: Printmaking with Solarplates, 2013Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, Landscape Selections from the Permanent Collection, 2013Spanierman Gallery, New York, Summer Selections, 2013Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, 75th Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition, 2013Spanierman Modern, New York, Dripping! Pouring! Staining!, 2013Spanierman Gallery, New York, Landscapes: 1880s to the Present, 2013Spanierman Modern, New York, Thirteen Contemporary Artists, 2013Spanierman Gallery, New York, Summer Selections, 2012Spanierman Gallery, New York, Modern and Contemporary Paintings, 2012Spanierman Gallery, New York, Artists of the East End: Past & Present, 2012.Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, 74th Annual Guild Hall Artist Member, 2012Spanierman Gallery, New York, Contemporary Artists, 2012Spanierman Gallery, New York, Artists of the East End, Part 2, 2011Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, New York, 44th Annual Artists of the Springs Invitational, 2011Spanierman Gallery, New York, Fifteen Modern and Contemporary Artists, 2011Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, 73rd Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition, 2011Spanierman Gallery, New York, In the Tonalist Mood: Paintings from 1860 to the Present, 2011 Spanierman Modern, New York, Gallery Selections, 2009Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition, 2009Water Mill Museum, New York, 16th Annual Members Exhibition, 2008Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, New York, East End Photographers Group: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, 2008Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, 70th Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition, 2008 Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Columbia Impact 16th Annual Spring Benefit Auction, 2008Sylvester & Co. and Amagansett Applied Arts, New York, Second Annual Group Exhibition, 2007Sylvester & Co., Amagansett, New York, Water Show, 2007 Sylvester & Co., Amagansett, New York, Landscape Show, 2007 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, 69th Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition, 2007 Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Columbia Impact 15th Annual Spring Benefit Auction, 2007Sylvester & Co. and Amagansett Applied Arts, New York, First Annual Group Exhibition, 2006SELECTED COLLECTIONSGreenville County Museum of Art, South CarolinaGuild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New YorkGrand Hyatt, Presidential Suite, New YorkHONORSAmerican Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist, Italy, 2012Marika Herskovic Annual Artist Seminar, invitation to present recent work, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, 2012