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“Subway Sonnet #142” is an original artwork by Susan Washington created in 2024

o PAINTING SIZE: 36” H x 48”W with a 1 1/2” thick profile. It is wired on the back and ready to be hung.

o This painting is created with oil, paint, paper, and acrylic paint and is varnished, ready to hang.

o Certificate of Authenticity included.

About this series:

Visual narratives derived from memories of growing up in the projects of Sheesphead Bay, NY late 70s and 80s. The works feel as if they are a collaboration of marks in the same way telephone booths and trains became filled with graffiti and stickers. Eroded pictures on top of images, song lyrics and quotes, graffiti and advertisement stickers - “The words of the prophet’s are written on the subway walls and tenement halls”.

Each painting has a particular mantra ranging from “love” to “prosperity. I pay homage to post-war American art and neo-expressionists. Icons from the world’s religions and philosophies, pictures torn from art and fashion magazines and references to lyrics from my favorite bands find their way on my canvas. Affirmation is also found in mantras, spells and the lyrics of popular music, and I can close my eyes in the studio, listening to a favorite track, and see the energy of the city in my mind’s eye and that pushes me to paint what I feel and to roughly organize the narrative of the painting to fit a particular theme.

If you have any questions about the artwork or would like to have higher resolution photos, please feel free to email us at susan@susanwashingtonfineart.com