Susan Eley Fine Art is pleased to present Do you hear me – One day we will fly. This two-person exhibition features recent artworks by Susan Lisbin and Sasha Hallock and emphasizes their abstract paintings. They have previously presented their multifaceted practices at SEFA in the Gallery’s Upstate and NYC locations. Indeed, these masters in color and abstraction have delighted SEFA audiences for a number of years. Verging on the anthropomorphic and the biological, the forms that they craft and their care and specificity to hues, patterns and details are apparent in these new works. The exhibition title Do you hear me – One day we will fly is a reference to the artists’ thoughtfully named paintings.

Based in Catskill, NY, Susan Lisbin works with oil and cold wax on canvas in her latest series Can you hear me. These paintings are composed with bright background colors, next overlaid with architectural lines in more neutral tones: pink and orange stripes with black squares and circles; blue stripes with white figurative outlines. In Mapping, Lisbin crafts what could be interpreted as an interior scene with a flower vase. In Ringer, she conjures images that one would expect to see under a microscope. In her two-dimensional paintings, the potential for movement is ever-present, and the shapes will inspire the viewer’s imagination.

Sasha Hallock, based in Brooklyn, NY, primarily uses oil on linen in his latest works such as One day we will fly. Notably, this is the first time that Hallock has used oil on linen as his primary medium, rather than his previous technique of colored pencil on paper. The exhibition includes three black and white ink on paper drawings that reveal the process behind his fantastical constructions. When using his technicolor methods, his attention to detail is clear, as seen in his small scale works such as Beast of the field where a claw creeps up on an abstract entity that feels like a humanoid figure; or in his new large-scale painting Home where green patches mingle on an impressive black background.

Together, Lisbin and Hallock encourage a contemplative interpretation—and inventive re-interpretation—of the world around us. The title of the exhibition, Do you hear me – One day we will fly, is a veritable call and response between these artists of different generations that link their abstract visions with a visceral and aspirational sentiment. SEFA is proud to share their energetic and vibrant works this fall season.