Susan Vecsey creates abstractions that are rooted in human perception. Having settled comfortably on the edge of phantasm and pure form, Vecsey is always working towards the creation of a universal image. Interested in bringing her compositions down to their essence, she works through her own memory of different topographies she has experienced by considering the continuously shifting effects of light, water, and air on our impressions of place. The result is soft, glowing abstractions which feel like peaceful meditations.
Born in Somerville, New Jersey, in 1971, Susan Vecsey earned her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her MFA from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. Vecsey’s work is widely held in both public and private collections, including the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, the Nassau County Museum, Roslyn, New York, the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, and Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY. In 2012, Vecsey was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Vecsey’s work was featured in Guild Hall Museum’s 2014 Selections from the Permanent Collection curated by Christina Strassfield. In 2024, Vecsey was a visiting artist at La Maison de Simon, near Giverny, France. In recent years, the distinguished design dealers, Lee Jofa and Brunschwig & Fils, have used several of her paintings in advertising campaigns. Vecsey has been featured in magazines such as Architectural Digest, Hamptons Magazine and Veranda. Susan Vecsey currently lives and works between New York City and East Hampton, New York.