Suzanne Levesque

Suzanne G'sell Lévesque (born November 20, 1983 in Luxembourg ) is an American artist. Her works include drawings, paintings, objects and installations. She mainly deals with the volatility and vulnerability of human existence. Levesque lives and works in New York and Berlin.

life and work

Suzanne Levesque studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland (USA) as part of a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship , with Mimi Gross and Raoul Middleman, among others.

She received her diploma summa cum laude in painting at the HAW Hamburg as a student of the Israeli artist Nir Alon .

Levesque drew attention to himself with solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof , the Parz Castle Gallery and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

In 2011 Levesque received a two-year scholarship from the artist guest in Harburg eV

In 2012 she won the Elysee Prize for Painting.

In 2013 her work was published in an artist edition of the Lichtwark Society. Levesque developed her own version of a glass printing process from the 19th century especially for this work.

In 2016 she realized an interdisciplinary installation in a former aircraft hangar (Kulturfabrik Hangar 21, Detmold). In 2017, Suzanne Levesque exhibited as the first international artist and as the first ever artist as part of the newly created program "PARZ ONE" in the Galerie Schloss Parz.

Levesque's work has been discussed and published in numerous publications, including Artforum , Die Welt , NDR , ORF and the Hamburger Abendblatt .

Solo exhibitions

• 2012 In memory of the children, curated by Alexa Seewald, Medical History Museum , Hamburg, Germany
• 2012 Mothers and Daughters on the Wall, Kunsthafen 59 °, Hamburg, Germany
• 2013 Holotypes, Mayr'sches Haus, Hamburg, Germany
• 2013 Lichtwark Edition - Suzanne Levesque, Lichtwark Society , Hamburg, Germany
• 2013 Lullabies, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof , Hamburg, Germany (catalog)
• 2014 ATTA GIRL !, Fabrik der Künste, curated by Jens Goethel, Hamburg, Germany (catalog)
• 2015 The Daily Moods of Suzanne Levesque, Mr. Beinlich Cont. Fine Art Space, Bielefeld, Germany
• 2015 Wunderkind, Mozarteum , Salzburg, Austria
• 2015 KIDDO, Atelier Xylos, Vienna, Austria (catalog)
• 2016 Peeping Tom, Atelier Xylos, Vienna, Austria
• 2016 Meanwhile, Kulturfabrik Hangar 21, Detmold, Germany
• 2016 Blips and Pings, Galerie Pfundt, Berlin, Germany
• 2016 Lollygag, Galerie Goethel, Hamburg, Germany
• 2017 I'm tired, Galerie Schloss Parz , Austria
• 2018 Bernhard Heiliger + Suzanne Levesque, Galerie Pfundt, Berlin, Germany
• 2018 Snug, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, New York
• 2018 Tingle, Macura Museum, Belgrade, Serbia

reception

The art historian Ralf Busch describes Levesque's work in the book "Lullabies" (published by Sautter + Lackmann, Hamburg 2013) as "experienced physicality." And adds: "People images were their subject, especially the act this but not in the form of the classic. Academic training, but from your own point of view. For her, physicality means surface, the play of colors on the skin in an undreamt-of range of variation and agility. The shape of the body is a pretext, not actually a concern. So no portrait either, as the figure and face break away from the model and develop a life of their own. The characters develop this into peculiar stories on the canvas. They are not just characters stripped of their clothes, but rather players in unfathomable stories. (...) She does not place her figures in rooms, these are completely absent. This is emphasized by neutral, more or less gray backgrounds. Spatiality is created solely through the physicality of their figures. (...) Not at all puzzling we look at this, in an alienated yet depicted naturalness. At the same time, the body is no longer exposed than necessary, so it is far from being an act in the conventional sense. "

The art critic and journalist Hajo Schiff (including Kunstforum international , Kunstzeitung , taz ) writes about Levesque: “The somewhat distant observation of the symptoms inscribed in the body has something like the first glance of a doctor who wants to clarify the sensitivities that are expressed. In fact, the as yet uninterested "get yourself free ...!" Is also at the beginning of the exploratory dialogue between painter and model. (...) But as with the great artists of the Renaissance, this by no means means that these images are only negatively charged. They are turned towards life in a distant baroque way, as it can be reflected in the bodies: They show people necessarily ambivalent, with suffering and lust. " (From ATTA GIRL !, Hamburg 2014)

Web links

• Literature by and about Suzanne Levesque in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• suzanne-levesque.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Exhibition Galerie Schloss Parz. Accessed on September 16, 2018 . 
2. ^ Exhibition Mozarteum, Salzburg. Retrieved September 16, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Scholarship artist visiting Harburg. Retrieved September 16, 2018 . 
4. ^ Elysee Prize for Painting, Hamburg. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on September 16, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ^ Artist edition of the Lichtwark Society, publication. Retrieved September 16, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Our annual gifts. Retrieved on September 23, 2018 (German). 
7. ↑ Interdisciplinary Installation, Hangar 21. Accessed September 16, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Galerie Schloss Parz, PARZ ONE. Retrieved September 16, 2018 . 
9. ↑ world. Retrieved September 16, 2018 . 
10. ↑ ORF. Retrieved September 16, 2018 . 
11. ↑ evening paper. Retrieved September 16, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Review | Pfundt Gallery. Retrieved September 26, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Suzanne Levesque. von Busch, Ralf, Mattheis, Robert: Lullabies. In: Book findR . ( buch-findr.de [accessed on September 23, 2018]).
14. ↑ GALLERY JENS GOETHEL. Retrieved September 23, 2018 .