Set in the dramatic moments between sunset and nightfall, Susan Holcomb’s paintings are complex meditations on the infinite. The expanses of land, sea and heavens that fill Holcomb’s paintings are overlaid with charts and diagrams, referencing the systems that classify our world.  Her luminous canvases depict not only the limitless skies of the American west but also the means by which we seek to interpret them.

 

Poised between the worlds of light and darkness, science and intuition, perception and logic, the paintings pay tribute to the transcendent beauty of the natural world and our attempts, as stargazers, to “define the indefinable.”