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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.

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.

Exhibitions

2024 Navigating the Surface, Carter Burden Gallery, Oct. 10 - Nov 6

2024 Summer Currents , Novado Gallery, Aug 10 - October, 2024

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2023 Novado Gallery, Nov 2023 - Jan 2024, Jersey City

2023 New Beginnings, Art House Gallery, July 8 - 30, Jersey City

 

2023  Looking for Clues, Carter Burden Gallery, Sept. 7 - Oct 4, NYC

 

2023  Summer Salon, Novado Gallery, July 27- Sept. 2, Jersey City

 

2023  Novado Gallery, April 29 - May 14, Jersey City

2023  Pro Arts Curators’ Choice, Art 150 Gallery, May 6 - 28, JC

2023  Over the Sofa, Carter Burden Gallery, March 23 - April 19, NYC

2022   NJCU Visual Arts Galleries, JC; Davis Gallery, Austin; Novado Gallery, JC and Carter Burden Gallery, NYC

 

2021  Into the Light, Carter Burden Gallery, Sept 9 - Oct 6, NYC

 

2021 Panepinto Galleries at the Canopy Hotel, Jan 1 - Feb 23, JC 


2020  Art House Gallery, Oct 1 - Oct 24, JC

2020  Beyond the Print, Manhattan Graphics, Nov 12 - Dec 22, NYC


2019  Panepinto Galleries, Sept 6 - Dec 31, JC

 

2019  Casa Colombo, JC

2018  Carol Lee Fine Art, Johannesburg; Novado Gallery and Panepinto Galleries, JC and Russell Art and Frame, Lakeway, TX

2017  Panepinto Galleries, JC;  Fine Arts Gallery, St. Peter’s University, JC and the Russell Collection, Austin


2016  The Russell Collection, Austin

2015  Affordable Art Fair, NYC; Windows on Columbus, JC; Hamilton Square and the Drawing Rooms, JC


2014  Art Hamptons; The Jersey City Museum, The Goldsmith Gallery and the Drawing Rooms, JC 

2013  Affordable Art Fair, NYC and The Look Out Gallery, S. Africa 

2012  Affordable Art Fair, NYC; Arts 78 Printmaking Show, NYC

2011   Lana Santorelli Gallery, Hoboken

2010  The National Academy Museum, NYC

2009  The National Academy Museum, NY and Artspace, Johannesburg

2007  The Mimosa hotel, Miami, concurrent with Art Basel Miami and Carol Lee Fine Art, Johannesburg


2006  Carol Lee Fine Art, Johannesburg


2005  Galerie Plett, The Netherlands; Riverside, CT and Carol Lee Fine Art, Johannesburg


2004  Galerie Plett, The Netherlands

Gallery Representation

Carter Burden Gallery, New York City

Emily Santangelo, Art Consultancy ​​

Novado Gallery, Jersey City 

Panepinto Fine Art, Jersey City ​​

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