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Red Drum 18”x 11” framed

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Artist Biography:

Sue Simons Wallace’s work has been exhibited in South Carolina, Florida, New Mexico and Colorado to name a few locations. Locally, her work was in an exhibition in 2003 entitled Fish at the Nina Liu and Friends Gallery. She had a show at Historic Charleston Reproductions Shop in 2005 and her work was featured in the 2006 Southern Living Idea House on Daniel Island. The Corrigan Gallery, where she has shown since 2005, gave her a show in December of 2006 that was very well received and her work was included in the December 2007 show Twenty Years of Collecting: Selections from the Hanford LeMay Charleston Collection at the Nina Liu and Friends Gallery.

Sue Simons Wallace

Charleston

Sue Simmons Wallace's work is represented at: Corrigan Gallery

About the Work:

Reflections and impressions of objects have always fascinated Sue Simons Wallace. The creation of gyotaku (fish rubbings) is simply an extension of this attraction and has been her main creative interest since 1991. It is a very elusive process and requires working many hours to stage the fish for the best possible design and placement on the paper. Wallace uses handmade Japanese rice paper of various types and several different inks and watercolours to create the images. Only freshly caught fish are used. The effort is to make impressionistic, ephemeral images of the fish – fossil-like images that are correct but not exact. The hope is that the viewer will come away with an impression of the beauty and movement that is evident in the live fish. They are a wonderful balance between an elegant, understated look and a refreshingly contemporary presentation of an old tradition.