Suzanne McClelland: Highland Seer
9 May - 8 June 2024
Marianne Boesky Gallery
507 West 24 Street

Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Highland Seer, an exhibition of new work by Suzanne McClelland (b. 1959; Jacksonville, FL), whom throughout her 35-year career has examined the visual, semantic, and acoustic dimensions of language. Endlessly fascinated by communication in all its forms, McClelland employs a distinct visual vernacular involving motifs around numbers, characters, bodies, phantoms, and cartoon characters.

For Highland Seer, McClelland turns her keen observational eye to notions of measurement and prediction. Various symbols and forms appear throughout this group of paintings, such as math problems; zeroes and infinity symbols; and classic cartoon characters. Each of these subjects promises fixed meaning: math problems have one solution, zero is infinity’s twin, and Wile E. Coyote follows the same narrative formula time after time. Yet in McClelland’s canvases, these forms become fluid: a number, divided by itself, equals itself; zero morphs into infinity; and a predator becomes prey to their own machinations. Read more in the press release linked here.

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More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download web-resolution image files. Artwork information is in each image’s file title. Image reuse must be exclusively in association with press coverage of Suzanne McClelland: Highland Seer with the credit line “copyright of the artist and courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery”