Suzannah Sinclair
German - born 1979
Suzannah Sinclair says that she uses art to find “the tricky balance between the sexual and the emotional, and which of the two we are more comfortable with.” She characteristically makes references to images found in 1960s and ’70s adult magazines in her mixed-media paintings, applying a combination of watercolor and colored pencil onto various types of wood panel. She uses the wood’s grain as part of her compositions, whether as a skin tone, a texture, or a reference for a curve in the body; the wood’s absorption of the materials’ color gives her works a muted color palette or a faded look. Sinclair also produces drawings and installations that share the themes of her paintings.
She was raised in New Jersey and attended Massachusetts College of Art in Boston earning a BFA in Printmaking in 2002. Sinclair has been a continuous exhibiting artist for over twenty years. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues including Samsøñ, Boston, MA; Stene Projects, Stockholm, Sweden; and New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. She was included in the 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial in Maine. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in many publications including ArtForum, The Boston Globe, and The Portland Press Herald. She has exhibited at many national and international art fairs including NADA, Miami: Volta, NYC; MACO, Mexico City; Dallas Art Fair, TX; and Market Art Fair, Sweden. Sinclair curated ‘Egg Tempera Now: a modest revival’ at Able Baker Contemporary in Portland, Maine in 2021.
