Angle Gallery
January 2011
Seeing the Numbers
New Paintings by Suze Woolf
Astoria.497 by Suze Woolf
I’m driven to glorify and aggrandize our infrastructure. I’ve painted a lot of industrial landscapes in the Seattle area in both daylight and at night. I think of them as unintentional monuments that rarely enter our consciousness.
A recent form of this preoccupation is a series showing the numbering systems on utility poles. For me, they represent a paradox of anonymous identity. The numbers represent location and inventory, but they are utterly faceless and unmemorable.
Bio: Suze Woolf has been drawing all her life. After an initial undergraduate degree, she pursued fifth-year studies in printmaking and ceramics at the University of Washington. Her professional career has included the graphic design of printed materials and interface designs for commercial and prototype software. In the last few years she has devoted herself to the watercolor medium, winning awards at regional competitions. Her subject matter is diverse and driven by a desire to bring the unnoticed to the forefront of consciousness. From burned-over forests of the arid West, the numbering systems on utility poles to large scale industrial subjects, she finds intense visual, emotional and intellectual experience everywhere she looks.
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