Suzanne Hudson
Suzanne Hudson is an art historian and critic based in Los Angeles. Recent books include Agnes Martin: Night Sea (2017; 2020) and Contemporary Painting (2021).
Guest Critic
Ours is a City of Writers
By Suzanne Hudson, Simon Leung, and James NisbetNew approaches to writing are everywhere in evidence across the contemporary art world. In Los Angeles, home of East of Borneo, X–TRA, Les Figues Press, MATERIAL, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, to name a few venues where art meets writing, critical and discursive engagement with art and art writing is especially pronounced.
Making Friends: Ad Reinhardt and Agnes Martin
By Suzanne HudsonIn 1967, Agnes Martin left New York City, where she had been living for a decade. She traveled for two years in Canada and the American West before settling on a remote New Mexican mesa, building a house by hand, and living in relative isolation for the remainder of her years.
Joan Brown & In the Shadow of Mt. Tam
By Suzanne HudsonRail critic Suzanne Hudson examines the effects of time and place on two new exhibitions highlighting artists of the Bay Area.
Robert Janitz at the Anahuacalli
By Suzanne HudsonThese last works especially bait other kinds of readings, not least in their figuring of semiotic becoming: the shapes suggest a human form seen from behind against a monochrome or gradient ground, with the orb standing in for a head and its base then legible as shoulders.
On Being Sane
By Suzanne HudsonRoger Cardinal coined the term “outsider” in 1972, using examples of European art, and specifically the work of psychiatric hospital patients collected by the artist Jean Dubuffet under the heading of Art Brut.
The Luck of the Draw
By Suzanne HudsonRichard Shiff ends his essay, “Reality By Chance” (2014), on a proposition that concerns precariousness, understood rather more felicitously as the necessary condition for luck’s possible attainment
