SUZANNE TRUMAN OCTOBER 2002

PLUS: MATTHEW POTTER IN THE ANNEX
November 3 - 24, 2002

Opening Reception: November 2, 2002

The Pound Gallery is proud to present the work of Montana artist Suzanne Truman. Using oil and encaustic on canvas, Truman creates works of beauty and subtlety. While she draws inspiration from the landscape that surrounds her Montana home, these are not literal landscape paintings. Instead, they are the essence of the colors, textures, feelings, and echoes of what the landscape leaves behind.

Incantations Using the technique of adding and subtracting materials onto the surface of her paintings, Truman "evokes the myriad of sensations and stories that the Land around me offers." Truman’s work captures the colors and textures that surround her: found objects, peeling paint on old doors, robin's egg blue sky, indigo nights, rock canyons; vermilion, azure, sienna, carmine and viridian patinas of lichen covered rocks. By sanding, scraping and scratching the surfaces of her paintings, Truman seeks to reveal the story of the landscape around her.

Suzanne Truman is an artist currently residing in Bozeman, Montana where she teaches advanced drawing at Montana State University. She holds a graduate degree in Painting from the University of Montana. Truman has exhibited her work internationally and nationally, including shows in New Zealand, Cuba, New York, Florida, California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New Mexico, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. The Pound Gallery exhibition is her debut in Seattle. The artist will be available for interviews October 31 through November 5.

Mirage
28" x 36"
oil and wax on panel, 2002

Incantations
32" x 48"
oil and wax on canvas, 2002

PLUS MATTHEW PORTER IN THE ANNEX

Boy to Girl Matthew Porter presents a collection of Freaks Past & Present. Marvel at the fat man "Harold Huge", stand in awe of the "Frog Boy", and fall in love with the hairy "Lady Olga". Paintings inspired by the sideshow banner art of Johny Meah and Snap Wyatt. Matthew graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1997. He has been living in Seattle about four years and does the comic "Dead Dog" in Tablet Newspaper.


	SUZANNE TRUMAN: OILS & ENCAUSTICS PLUS: MATTHEW POTTER IN THE ANNEX November 3 - 24, 2002 Opening Reception: November 2, 2002 The Pound Gallery is proud to present the work of Montana artist Suzanne Truman. Using oil and encaustic on canvas, Truman creates works of beauty and subtlety. While she draws inspiration from the landscape that surrounds her Montana home, these are not literal landscape paintings. Instead, they are the essence of the colors, textures, feelings, and echoes of what the landscape leaves behind. Using the technique of adding and subtracting materials onto the surface of her paintings, Truman "evokes the myriad of sensations and stories that the Land around me offers." Truman’s work captures the colors and textures that surround her: found objects, peeling paint on old doors, robin's egg blue sky, indigo nights, rock canyons; vermilion, azure, sienna, carmine and viridian patinas of lichen covered rocks. By sanding, scraping and scratching the surfaces of her paintings, Truman seeks to reveal the story of the landscape around her. Suzanne Truman is an artist currently residing in Bozeman, Montana where she teaches advanced drawing at Montana State University. She holds a graduate degree in Painting from the University of Montana. Truman has exhibited her work internationally and nationally, including shows in New Zealand, Cuba, New York, Florida, California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New Mexico, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. The Pound Gallery exhibition is her debut in Seattle. The artist will be available for interviews October 31 through November 5. Mirage 28" x 36" oil and wax on panel, 2002 Incantations 32" x 48" oil and wax on canvas, 2002 PLUS MATTHEW PORTER IN THE ANNEX Matthew Porter presents a collection of Freaks Past & Present. Marvel at the fat man "Harold Huge", stand in awe of the "Frog Boy", and fall in love with the hairy "Lady Olga". Paintings inspired by the sideshow banner art of Johny Meah and Snap Wyatt. Matthew graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1997. He has been living in Seattle about four years and does the comic "Dead Dog" in Tablet Newspaper. © Matthew Porter