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Sara Suppan

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Artist Statement

My paintings are light and strange and sometimes sweet. I love ordinary objects, drawings within paintings, and when goofiness undercuts beauty.

I try to paint subjects so plain and yet contemporary that they spark immediate recognition: fingers dusty from Cheetos, a frowny face keyed into a car, butterfly socks fluttering on a clothesline. These are just the stuff of my life– but heightened and made wonderful in the lusciousness of oil. Each painting employs all of my patience and skill, as the most ambitious take hundreds of hours. This seems to be a key part of it— for it is through the earnest work of making-beautiful that these paintings skate the edge of serious and funny, their humble subjects turning mysterious and deserving of new consideration.

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Artist Biography

Sara Suppan (b. 1994) is an American painter working in Minneapolis. She has most recently exhibited with Hashimoto Contemporary (Los Angeles), Huxley-Parlour (London), Moosey (London), Kutlesa (Goldau, Switzerland), and Micki Meng (San Francisco). Last summer Suppan worked in England at Moosey’s residency program, and she will have a solo exhibition at the gallery’s London space next summer. She previously attended a residency in Austria at Salzburger Kunstverein in 2019. She has exhibited at the CAN Art Fair in Ibiza, the Untitled Art Fair in Miami, and at NADA Miami with Moosey, Huxley-Parlour, and Micki Meng respectively. Her paintings have been published in New American Paintings magazine (No. 155 and No. 173), and she has been awarded grant funding for her work from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (2023), and from the Minnesota State Arts Board (2017, 2021). Previous solo shows include Sweet Potato at Micki Meng (San Francisco) and You and I Do Not Form a Number at Yeah Maybe (Minneapolis). Suppan holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (U.S).

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