The paintings of Susan Powers are delicate, and sensitive, and beautiful. Susan has a fascination with old objects--their shape, their color, their texture, and their qualities of luminosity. In her paintings these objects achieve a metaphysical presence. These objects--commonplace things from everyday life, such as books, bottles, shells, boxes, vases, cups, and flowers--are precisely executed and then set against deep, muted backgrounds of solid, sensuous color, so that the objects are shown off like the gems of a jeweler against black velvet. Often a favorite cat is found perched among the objects. Susan's fascination with old objects has its roots in the long summers which she spent at her grandparents' farm in Vermont as a young girl, where she often roamed through the rooms filled with antique books and bottles, and bric-a-brac of all kinds. Assembling groups of similar objects on canvas now, as she once did on shelves and tabletops as a young girl, Susan is giving visual expression to her fond memories of that farm in Vermont. The work of Susan Powers has been included in a number of group exhibitions in New York, and she has been recognized as one of the foremost self-taught artists of the twentieth century in the Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Folk Art and Artists (Rizzoli, New York; 1983). Sylvia Alberts Denise Allen Marieluise Hutchinson Kathy Jakobsen Norton Latourelle Harry Lieberman Polly Minick Carol Hamilton Offet Patricia Palermino Susan Powers Sarah Rakes Rosebee Leo Sewell Susan Slyman Other Artists Shown by the Gallery