Suzanne Blank Redstone: Catching Light
10th May, 2025 – 28th June, 2025
CLOSE
Close Ltd
Hatch Beauchamp, Taunton
TA3 6AE
A Retrospective of Suzanne Blank Redstone Traces her Radical Career in Light, Form and Perception
CLOSE Gallery opens a major retrospective this week devoted to American artist Suzanne Blank Redstone, whose career spans more than sixty years. The exhibition, Catching Light, runs from 10 May to 28 June, and coincides with the artist’s 80th birthday.
Redstone, born and raised in Queens, New York, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and later earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work, shaped by the ideals of mid-20th-century modernism and the inclusive design philosophy of the Bauhaus, explores the relationships between light, form and perception.
The Core 2019
powdercoated aluminium on painted tricoya
144x91x17cm
side view
Though she has often worked outside the spotlight, Redstone’s contributions to painting, sculpture and public art have long demonstrated a sharp formal intelligence and a deep interest in how space and light interact. Her early works—plaster reliefs from the late 1960s—use colour sparingly, with subtle variations that reflect light and create a shifting sense of depth. These pieces, though modest in scale, speak to a meticulous and enduring exploration of visual effect.
Later works in the exhibition include models and sketches for architectural light sculptures—projects that imagine buildings as surfaces that absorb and release light throughout the day. Many of these feature soft, curving forms that seem to merge geometric precision with natural rhythm.
Throughout, Redstone’s work reflects a persistent desire to question how we see. Her Portals series, built around the use of primary colours and strong lines, invites the viewer into illusions of space and motion. What appear at first as simple shapes reveal layered spatial relationships upon closer inspection.
In more recent years, Redstone has turned her attention to public commissions, incorporating heavy materials such as stone and metal with elements that respond to daylight. These pieces, often designed for open-air environments, continue her career-long interest in how changing light conditions can shape experience.
Red Square 1969
Acrylic on plaster
29.5 x 30.5 x 5 cm V2
Catching Light offers a timely reassessment of Redstone’s work and reasserts her place among the artists who have used abstraction and geometry to expand the possibilities of visual art. CLOSE Gallery, which focuses on artists who have been historically overlooked, presents the show as part of an ongoing effort to bring broader attention to significant but under-recognised voices.
Reflecting on her practice, Redstone remarks: “I’m interested in how light moves across surfaces, how it changes what we see — and what we think we see.”
Suzanne Blank Redstone: Catching Light opens on the 10th of May, 2025 until the 28th of June, 2025 at CLOSE
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