The Beating Heart

Susan Gale's work explores the nostalgia of the community by highlighting the juxtapose between the peaceful, quiet mystery of light and the rush of visually invoked sensation. She explores the sensibility that an image evokes by manipulating form, surface, and palette to exaggerate each painting's elements of color, framing, and texture. By employing rich hues and playful pixilation, her work seeks to investigate a space between abstraction and representation that allows for a rich direct language of mark-making. Gale's unique aesthetic is the dominant theme in her work. Her practice involves capturing cityscapes and images of everyday places and assigning them a subjective graphic meaning. In this form of expression, gestures and shapes start to invoke a feeling of being transported to these places. Susan works the images through a lens of emotion and brings beauty and form back to their most simple compositional elements. Susan Gale was born in Stephenville, Newfoundland in 1977. Susan studied painting at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design from 2000 to 2004 and received her BFA. Susan moved to Toronto in 2005 where she has been painting, exhibiting and selling her work consistently since graduating from NSCAD. Susan’s work has appeared in several home design TV shows, including Property Brothers. Her artwork has been collected throughout Canada and the US.