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Expressions of Memory features work by painters Su Knoll Horty and Deborah Zuchman, whose paintings draw direct inspiration from the natural world’s colorful influence. Su’s undulating paintings play with soft gradients and harsh borders to create a uniform flow across her canvases. She catches inspiration at random and runs the color to the canvas. Deborah’s paintings come from her deep and constant observations in nature. Her surreal and exaggerated colorations come directly from the landscapes she portrays, painting first from direct observation and then again from emotional imprint the landscape leaves on her. She imagines “the conversations between the trees” and uses color to write their songs. Both artists let inspiration wash over them, and use recollection just as much as their paint pigment to share the experience with the Viewer.

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Su Knoll Horty
She/ Her

Statement

The sensation of color, the lushness of oil paints, the thrill of creating, and the surprise of abstraction are what drive me to paint--Add drama to the canvas, and I’m hooked!

At the inception of my paintings, I select colors inspired by nature, random places, or other artists’ paintings, whatever catches my eye, stirs my curiosity, or challenges me.

I explore fluidity, in all its measures: organic form, undulating movement, saturated ‘liquid’ color, and stylized gestural marks. It’s through this fluidity that I find color to be most expressive.  Color relationships are very important to me, as are tonal variations.  I place color next to color, with the goal of finding just the right combination so that each will make the other shine.

My hope is that my paintings’ lushness, power and mood-altering color will affect the viewer on a visceral, not practical level.  I want to excite the viewers’ imagination so that they pay attention to, remember, and ultimately discover something new through color!

Bio

In 2012, Su completed the CE Core Curriculum Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Pafa). Su continues to study with Abstract teachers, Kassem Amoudi, and various instructors at The Art Students League of New York. Su has been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wild Roof Journal, The Woven Tale Press, as well as being interviewed on ArtWatch and Morning Edition radio.

Su is a member of The Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she received the Caroline Gibbons Granger Award from Juror, Paul Efstathiou, Director of Contemporary Art, of Hollis Taggart Gallery (NY), in the Annual Exhibition, 2023.  She also received an Honorable Mention in the Visionary Art Collective's online exhibition, Finding Sanctuary, 2021, a 3rd Place award in The ArtList September Artist of the Month contest, 2019. She received an Award of Merit from Manhattan Arts International in the online exhibition of The Healing Power of Art, 2019.

Su is also a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club where she received two Honorable Mention awards for her entries in the Absolutely Abstract shows, in 2012 and 2013, as well as being a juror in the 2015 Absolutely Abstract show.

Su exhibits regularly and has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, including The Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Biggs Museum of American Art, the Hamptons Virtual Art Show with Bluestone Fine Art Gallery, SOMA NewArt Gallery in Cape May, New Jersey, Hardcastle Gallery in Centreville, Delaware and The Delaware Contemporary. Her work is held in the Camden County Art Bank in New Jersey and The Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and in numerous private collections in the United States, Mexico and China. Su Knoll Horty was represented by Bluestone Fine Art Gallery in Old City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 2013 until their closing in 2020 (due to Covid). From 2012 until 2019, Su displayed her paintings in Senator Chris Coons’ Washington, D.C. office.

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Deborah Zuchman
She/ Her

Statement

Man has not yet subdued nature in reality or in the imagination. Painting the forest and the landscape is a spiritual and material activity in harmony with birth, growth, death, re-birth, light, darkness, isolation and communion. My work presents the spirit of the materiality of paint so that memories of places become expressions of feeling and meaning.

Bio

Deborah Gross-Zuchman, a Philadelphia painter, was an Art Demonstration Teacher and taught in the Philadelphia Public Schools for thirty-five years. She also worked as a Project Manager for the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program for several years. Gross-Zuchman paints en plein air and from her imagination. She explores the fine line between landscape and abstraction.  

A book of her poems and paintings, Windows Into War (A Mother’s Lament), is published by Abingdon Square Publishers, NY
The Essential Seder, a Passover Haggadah, has an emphasis on social justice and freedom and is illustrated with her collages. It is published by Behrman House Publishing.

Becky’s Braids, written by Susan Weiss and illustrated by Gross-Zuchman is a story about a little girl with the messiest hair until her grandmother comes to visit and teaches her to make braided challah.

Effectations is about man’s isolation and search for meaning. Deborah’s paintings are alongside her son Will’s poetry and is available upon request.