Suzanne McClelland

“Trillion”

May 30 - July 18, 2020

de boer gallery is pleased to announce a limited edition publication and solo exhibition of new paintings by Suzanne McClelland. Her first exhibition with de boer, New York-based McClelland responds to the specificity of Los Angeles with a new body of work reflecting her ongoing examination of the fragility of representation.

“TRILLION” brings together a group of paintings that delve into an examination of languages, the materiality of silence and the possibility of meaning outside of narrative. Events of the recent months have brought attention to our reliance on predictions, statistics and our desire for concrete facts. Yet anxieties are often met with contradictory belief systems. McClelland works in the active gap between inscription and comprehension, faith and negation, recipe and operation, all by creating a space for the viewer to explore questions of legibility.

In ”TRILLION”, de boer gathers these non-narrative paintings in a limited edition publication and exhibition that foregrounds our pursuit of fixed truths such as formulas, solutions, code, and time itself. In this group of deeply saturated color field stain paintings McClelland adapts sources as diverse and contradictory as the formulas used to build a fission bomb, healing codes used by Reiki practitioners, and the roll of the dice. The methodology here is to treat color as a field of sensation or opportunity that once buried, erased and inscribed upon might suggest a reversal of intention. These paintings engage with negation, hope and psychic perception suggesting a longing for the things we attempt to name but can't quite see

Since the early 1990’s, McClelland has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad. Museum solos include those at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, CT, the Weatherspoon Art Museum in North Carolina and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Recent Publications include “Just Left Feel Right” published by the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, organized and authored by Amy Smith-Stewart; the monograph “36-24-36” published by team gallery, inc with a text by Thierry de Duve, “Playlist”, “Networth”, and A DRESS/Address a collaboration with Alix Pearlstein all published by Space Sisters Press. Her work is included in numerous public collections, among them The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Brooklyn Museum in New York City, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Albertina in Vienna and the Walker Art Center. McClelland was included in the New Museum’s NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star and participated in the 1993 and 2014 Whitney Biennials. In 2019 Mcclelland was awarded the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.