SUBWAY SONNETS
Original mixed-media works by Susan Washington
DID I FIND YOU, OR DID YOU FIND ME? | 55” x 44”
NEW YORK, 1980-SOMETHING.
I grew up in Brooklyn and spent much of the ’80s taking the train into Manhattan. I was drawn to the surfaces of the city-graffiti, stickers, flyers, advertisements, handwriting, layers left behind by people I would never know.
Years later, those surfaces became Subway Sonnets.
I Don't Remember What We Talked About, I Just Remember…
48” x 36” | $2600
Don’t Ever Go With The Flow, Be The Flow
36” x 48” | $2600
The World’s Gone Mad, And Love Is The Answer
108” x 48” | $6500
Venus Is Currently Rebranding
36” x 36” | $2000
THE CITY IS IN THE WORK
I grew up in Brooklyn and spent much of the ’80s taking the train into Manhattan. I was drawn to the surfaces of the city- graffiti, stickers, flyers, advertisements, handwriting, layers left behind by people I would never know.
I’d read the walls and subway cars like stories, piecing together fragments and imagining the lives behind them.
Years later, those surfaces found their way into the Subway Sonnets. I still paint the way I looked at New York then: in layers, fragments, marks and stories.
New York, 1980-something.
My nights took me from St. Marks and Washington Square to the Mudd Club and Danceteria. After a night out, I’d ride the train back to Brooklyn, sketchpad usually in my hand. New York was loud, layered, messy and constantly changing. I didn’t know then that I was taking any of it with me.
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