Artfare Drops Suzy Kopf 'Orange Crush' Series
About Orange ‘Crush’
In her research-based art practice, Suzy Kopf (born Palo Alto, CA, 1989), focuses on unpacking hidden history within aspects of everyday American leisure culture. The subject of this new body of work is citrus, a staple of middle-class western diets since the 1920s that has come to symbolize the bounty of our past as an agricultural nation and functions as a shorthand for vacation, in part because it is primarily grown in the two largest sunshine-destination states, Florida and California. Today incorporated on everything from shampoo bottles to pool floats, we associate imagery of oranges and lemons with beauty and above all else, pleasure. The watercolors, collage work and digital illustrations available exclusively through ArtFare for this drop, explore mythology erected by midcentury advertising, contrasting facade with fact, sometimes within a single work.
Artist Bio
Suzy Kopf is a multidisciplinary artist who scrutinizes the paper ephemera of midcentury consumer culture to probe the enduring mythos of the American Dream. Through water media paintings, collages and site-specific installations she excavates archival materials and inherited nostalgia for planned utopias erected and cast aside. Vibrant and pastel colors unify her work across media and evoke the built landscape of the eroding Silicon Valley where she grew up. Conscious of how much byproduct can result from art-production, Suzy strives to have a “no waste” practice, recycling materials back into her work and making her own paint.
Suzy has been the recipient of numerous residency fellowships including most recently Kala, The Studios at Mass MoCA, Playa and VCCA. Projects related to her research-based practice have been funded by the Hagley Museum, Baltimore National Heritage Area, the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and the Design History Society. Suzy has exhibited in group and solo shows throughout the United States and Canada including the Delaware Contemporary, Spring/Break Art Fair and the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
