Silverstein Photography is pleased to announce KATHY SUDER: KNOCKOUT!, a photographic exhibition featuring large-scale color works created within the boxing ring.
While Suder's choice of subject and style clearly evokes reference to the iconic boxing paintings of Ashcan artist George Wesley Bellows, her photographs, with close attention to chiaroscuro, human musculature and vigorous twisted form, in fact more closely recall the style of Renaissance painting and sculpture. Yet beyond the photograph's highly saturated colors and skillfully composed frames, are depictions of men at war with each other and themselves. Within these images are clear metaphors for the human condition - pain, struggle, fear, and pride. It is this commitment by the artist to the subject in general that is very often missing in the cold and removed large-scale photographs so popular today.