Sussane Lussier has an artist's touch with which I am quite enamored. Her sculptural work is not for want of craftsmanship, but intentionally pushed to an emotive place which evokes a state of being worn. Her pieces can be incredibly ornamental and beautiful, and still have an uneasy tension or grotesqueness to them. There is an incredibly gorgeous, folk art referencing, crudeness to the works but, she still successfully alludes to high society's material culture. She uses motifs of the natural world and entertainment which showcases and even perverts it, narrative which is made even stronger with the purposeful creation of flawed surfaces.
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