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
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