Oil Pastel Paintings on Panel


October 12 through November 23, 2002

Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 12, 4 to 7 p.m

Terrence Rogers Fine Art is pleased to announce the first southern California exhibition of works by Susan Bennerstrom. Utilizing a unique technique of oil pastel on gessoed panel, Bennerstrom luminously depicts details of interiors spaces: a highly polished floor, the backlit geometry of a window frame or the serpentine twist of a stairway. Bennerstrom's work celebrates the stillness and silence found in a room inhabited only by light and space. In these interiors, light and multiple reflections intersect and bounce off surfaces to create her colorful and abstract compositions. Susan Bennerstrom resides in Bellingham, Washington where she teaches at the Pratt Fine Art Center in Seattle. She has shown in Seattle since 1981, and at galleries nationally (New York, Santa Fe, San Francisco and Portland, OR) since 1989. Currently on exhibit at the Whatcom Museum of History and Art in Bellingham, Washington is a ten year retrospective of her work entitled: Existing Light.