Elizabeth Schuppe

Elizabeth Schuppe is a contemporary abstract expressionist painter who lives and works in New York. The principle's of Schuppe's work are color, line, shape, texture, and light. In using these artistic principles, Schuppe hopes to communicate emotion through her paintings. I love the simplicity of Schuppe's practice: I feel she is brave in conducting a practice that is relatively dated. It seems that this concentration on two dimensional form, and the potentional to create emotion is more of post WWII abstract expressionism, and not of contemporary painting. However, Schuppe freely goes about in making works based on the capacity of things like line, color, and texture to become emotional. Because of this, combined with her specific aesthetic, I feel she makes extremely compelling works.

April Moorhouse