ARTISTS STATEMENT Suzanne Frazier’s work is based on her interpretation of patterns and shapes found in water and nature. From this point of departure, she has created an extensive vocabulary of forms that she uses in her abstract compositions. The foundation of each painting is an arrangement of shapes that are, in turn, built upon and responded to by additional shapes. Every mark and color informs the next, and the painting reveals itself over time through the artist’s call-and-response manner of working. This process allows Frazier to move away from representational qualities of her subject, focusing on the formal qualities of color and figuration laid down over time. The painting express a quality of rhythm, harmony, and a system not unlike water and nature. Particularly inspired by the ripples of the ocean’s surface, Frazier writes, “In my paintings, these graphic forms—whether they are arcs, straight lines, geometric shapes or organic orbs—are repeated on the canvas in layers and colors that serve to represent the reticulated quality of the ocean’s surface… The visual relation to the ocean’s surface becomes more of a sensation—something vaguely familiar—and can be interpreted as any interrupted, rippled field.” ABOUT Suzanne Frazier maintains both a painting studio in Sausalito and a printmaking studio in The Sea Ranch, California. The Marin Art Council has awarded her both a Career Grant and an Individual Artist Grant. A California native, Frazier holds a degree in Biomedical Illustration from UC Davis, and her work is held in private collections nationally and abroad, including the corporate headquarters of Redwood Trust, Inc.