Pop’s Socks, 2023 © Sara Suppan and Micki Meng, San Francisco
In the artist’s debut solo presentation with Micki Meng, Sara Suppan’s Sweet Potato (April 27 - June 9, 2023) collection of new paintings brings sincere attention to commonplace absurdities. Generating a good-humored tension between formal and casual modes of picture-making, scenes that seem spontaneously captured by a phone camera are painted with diligent precision. The paintings’ lush and tenacious realism, executed in the slower medium of oil on panel, gives a strange gravity to passing moments of levity.
Selected subjects display themselves like proof that novelty can be found laced throughout slices of daily life. Finding joy in boredom and delight in simple pleasures, the works encourage us to notice the small miracles that show up if we’re looking for them, defusing the humdrum austerity of chore and routine.
