Suzanne McClelland (USA) They, 1993

Signed, dated and titled to verso, printed Salama-Caro Gallery label with typed information including stock no. MCC92.0002 to verso

SUZANNE MCCLELLAND (b. 1959, Jacksonville, Florida) includes large-scale paintings, works on paper, and books in her practice. These often extract fragments of speech or text from various cultural sources; explore the social, symbolic, and material possibilities that reside within language; and celebrate the physicality of speech and sound. McClelland parses such issues as the limitations and malleability of communication, the impact of technology on interpreting information, and the mechanics of translation. Her works are infused with social commentary, underscoring the way in which language itself is gendered and politicized by its physical and spatial context.

McClelland’s work has been exhibited extensively since the early 1990s. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY; the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and the Orlando Museum of Art, FL.   Her work was included in the 1993 and 2014 Whitney Biennials, and she has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Parrish Art Museum, NY; Wexner Center for the Arts, OH; Pulitzer Arts Foundation, MO; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY. 

Her work is held in numerous public collections including that of; the Museum of Modern Art, NY (23 work); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Parrish Art Museum, NY; the Walker Art Center, MN; and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, among many others.