Schuler has gained a reputation for her brash palette and a gestural approach to painting that echo’s what critic Clement Greenberg once referred to as “the tenth street touch”. As a devotee of mid-century abstraction, the painter wears her influences well. Glimpses of Hoffman, Diebenkorn, Motherwell, and in particular, de Kooning, are pervasive throughout her work, but Schuler manages to get away without ever looking too much like any one of them.

 

—Alan D Pocaro

Alan Pocaro is an artist, educator, and writer based in Illinois 

 

There’s more visual excitement in the latest shows at the Carnegie Visual + Performing Arts Center in Covington.

The standout is Susan Schuler. She works in large canvas formats to produce animated abstract expressionistic oil paintings. The style, developed by such artists as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, is concerned with producing emotional and architectural effects both through sweeping gestural painting and thoughtful combinations of colors.

 

It’s an easy guess that music was part of the scene she is remembering with such delight, even without the cues in the titles. The wide brush strokes and sense of movement easily translate as auditory and well as figurative cues.

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—Jane Durrell

Jane Durrell has written on the visual arts and travel for many publications