Susan Luss - DeVined-Interruptus

2022, wood panel, vine, dye, thread, 18" round x 5" Susan Luss’s work spans drawing, painting, performance, sculpture, assemblage, and installation. Luss’s creates assemblage and works on paper using found objects and materials immersed in dye baths, leaving imprints and traces of themselves–a build-up of forms, gestures and residues that culminate in a kind of layered geological record, an artifact of time. Her bundles, initially raw and unformed canvas, are taken outside interacting with light, wind, rain, among other elements, later she ritually folds and ties them up before immersing in dye, subsequently using the bundle to make imprints on paper and canvas. Ultimately her works are arranged in conversation with the mark-making objects that were used in their creation. Luss constantly returns to these dialogues between drawing and assemblage, reusing elements in new ways and repositioning them in a cyclical rhythm that speaks to themes of dynamic self-sustaining systems and ecologi