Suzanne Schireson American, b. 1981

from the artist:

Each image is based on a mother or a caretaker, and I paint them a studio. Increasingly the buildings struggle to hold them, or the women get to work before the structure is even complete. This often leaves an open edge between architecture and landscape, no longer making the studio a fixed place.

To find intersections of caretaking, motherhood, and creative practice, many of my ideas are sourced by women in the history of the arts who were also parents, including Barbara Hepworth, Elizabeth Catlett and Ruth Asawa. I am interested in the context of caretaking as it relates to their creative lives and inhabited spaces.