The French Cultural Center is proud to present ponge.pebble.paint, a collection of paintings and works on paper by Susan Cantrick. An ongoing project, the collection responds to the prose poem The Pebble by the French modernist poet Francis Ponge.
In the poem, Ponge muses on the life and times of the pebble, whose hard worn geological identity acquires human proportion and character. Through her work, Cantrick evokes this evolution by focusing on the theme of scale change -- the disintegration of an aggregate -- and then inverts it by scaling up the diminished remnants.
Born and educated in the United States, Cantrick now lives and works in Paris, France. In 1997, she left her career as a violinist due to injury and turned to visual arts as an extension of her creative practice. After her first solo exhibition in Paris, she established her independent studio in France in 2002. She exhibited solo again in Paris in 2007 and has shown regularly in Parisian exhibitions, notably the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles for the past three years.
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