Megan Suttles

Brooklyn, NY

http://www.MeganSuttles.com

Brooklyn based artist and owner/ curator of Hot Wood Arts.  Hot Wood Arts is an arts center that was developed to encourage collaboration, inspiration, and friendship in an urban environment.  The center hosts gallery shows, performances, and resident artists’ open studios.  http://www.hotwoodarts.com

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Suttle’s individual artwork is based on anxiety and control. Exploring the eternal struggle between restraint and disorder: the way we tend to conceal our inner confusion with the outward appearance of refinement and perfection. The work has become focused on revealing this chaos; making the invisible visible again. Materials consist of everyday industrial materials such as aluminum tubing, packing tape, monofilament, L-brackets, and hose clamps.  Through gestural installations,  she reveals her understanding of the difference between uncertainty and certainty. Suttles received her MFA in sculpture from Pratt Institute in 2011.   

Quite Noise, Pratt MFA Thesis Show, Stainless Steel Hose Clamps, 2011

Quite Noise, Pratt MFA Thesis Show, Stainless Steel Hose Clamps, 2011

Quite Noise (detail), Pratt MFA Thesis Show, Stainless Steel Hose Clamps, 2011

Silent Noise, Governors Island Art Fair, Monofilament and Packing Tape, 2012

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Three Rooms, Fragmented Memory, Once Again, Silent Noise, Governors Island Art Fair, 2012

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Once Again – Video and String

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Dissect, Vermont Studio Center, L-Brackets, 2012

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Fragmented Memory II, Aluminum, 2012

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Departure, Mixed media with bobby pins, 2’x6’X11′

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