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SUZANNE MCCLELLAND.(exhibition of her paintings)(Brief Article)

Artforum International,  January, 2001  by Schwabsky, Barry

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> There's no way to synthesize Florine Stettheimer's florid fancies with the turbulent energy of Jackson Pollock, and why would anyone want to anyway? Doing just that, Suzanne McClelland's new paintings put the impossible at the service of the unreasonable. Stettheimer and Pollock do come to terms in McGlelland's Cynthia and Angela (all works 2000): The Abstract Expressionist's flung and poured paint morphs into something resembling the arabesque festoons of Stettheimer's twee ornamentalism, as well as lettering that spells out a series of broken phrases "i came to you," ...

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