ABOUT

ARTIST STATEMENT

To create my work, I employ an intuitive, instinctive, and reactive process that allows me to explore the use of line, shape, visual movement, and color to convey emotion. The process is very meditative and pensive; through time-intensive methods, particularly stitching, I explore how evidence of the artist's hand represents an emotional intimacy between humans and art objects. Because these pieces are so intuitive, they tend to reflect my mood and condition at the time of their creation, and while they are not representational, they become almost autobiographical.  

BIOGRAPHY

Abigail Sutherland was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1996. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art with a minor concentration in Museum Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2018. Sutherland has experience with drawing, printmaking, and small-scale additive sculpture, but primarily focuses on painting with oil and thread-and-needle stitching in her work. Conceptually, her work is driven by a desire to elicit emotion through evocative abstractions, concentrating on involved, time-intensive techniques as a metaphor for an intimate connection to art. Sutherland's artwork has been displayed in the American Jewish Museum at the Pittsburgh Jewish Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the York Art Association in York, Pennsylvania; the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania; and Late Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  She currently lives and works in Pittsburgh.