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New Sculpture Explores Love and Relationships

Charlotesville, VA - Just in time for Valentine's Day, an exhibition of new sculpture by Susan Bacik, entitled "State of the Union: A Brief Survey of Love," will open at Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, February 6. Bacik uses a diverse range of found materials to create astonishingly poetic assemblages that reflect the many facets of relationships: sometimes ecstatic, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always revelatory. These sculptures touch on feelings shared by anyone who's ever been in love.

Critic and scholar Marjorie Balge Crozier has written that, "Few contemporary artists deal as successfully as Bacik with ...Intangible issues of the spirit. Clearly, she is a master of the art of assemblage." English critic Peter Blundell-Jones has called her work "...intellectual... powerfully ironic in implication." Daily Progress critic Ruth Latter has written that Bacik's work is "...awesome...worthy of New York's Museum of Modern Art." Jill Hartz, Director of the University of Virginia Art Museum, describes Bacik's sculpture as "...among the best I've seen in Virginia or anywhere else."

Bacik has exhibited internationally. Her work is in private collections in England, Germany, Canada and the U.S., as well as public collections, ranging from the Minnesota Department of Transportation, to the American School in London, to the University of Virginia Art Museum, where she was the subject of a one-person show in 1998. She was represented in the national millennium exhibition, Hindsight/Foresight in 2000.

Breathless, 2003, (detail)
From the Valentine series
found objects, 72 x 24 x 4"

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