Sue Chenoweth is an anchor in the Phoenix arts community, who spent the summer as an arts ambassador of sorts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil through a residency program with the Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art (phICA).
During her 5-week residency, Chenoweth created a new series of paintings that are shown together with art she created for "here.," a group exhibition mounted at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia in 2011 this month at Modified Arts in downtown Phoenix.
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New Times art critic Kathleen Vanesian visited the show, which includes pieces created with gouache and acrylic paints as well as drawing in ink and pencil with mixed media accents, and writes it's "it's often hard to tell what's been painted and what's been applied."
Vanesian writes:
Though spurred by differing thematic concerns, the admixture of the two separate exhibitions does nothing to dilute the power of either group of work, since both deal with what is concretely real and what is purely illusory. It also ends up being a perfect balance between the sacred and the profane.
"Sue Chenoweth: Real and Applied," will run through December 31 Modified Arts. Read Vanesian's full review of Chenoweth's show and see a slideshow of Chenoweth's work.
