Candy Le Sueur

The work of Candy Le Sueur draws on the idea of light and how it affects our perception of reality. Light is a mystery and though nothing travels faster, the effect of light here, is felt as slow and meditative. What we experience in Le Sueur’s paintings is that light speaks to us in a language which conjures emotion and creates atmosphere. Like an unconscious rising, Le Sueur’s paintings evoke faded memories of time and space - an attempt at capturing a fleeting moment.

Process driven, Le Sueur deliberately builds each piece layer by layer, allowing her intuition to guide her through choices in color, form, and composition. By emphasizing space and depth, and delineating the picture plane, the artist presents these luminous renditions as” light landscapes”. The layering of both her paintings and prints helps activate the surface and achieve a push and pull between foreground and background creating movement and perspective. The artist oscillates between playing with atmospheric perspective where sections of soft tonal color, for quietude, are interspersed with expressionistic and gestural brushstrokes in luscious swathes of thick paint. There is an ebb and flow within her body of work where one of these two elements take an alternate dominant role over the other.

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Candy Le Sueur is a painter and a printmaker who lives and works in Jersey City, NJ. She received her Fine Arts Degree from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa and continued her studies at the National Academy School and various printmaking studios in New York City. Le Sueur has exhibited her work in South Africa, Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. The Jersey City Museum, the Affordable Art Fair in New York, Art Hamptons and prestigious galleries, among other venues, have exhibited her paintings and monotypes. Her paintings and monotypes are featured in several private collections both home and abroad.