Timeline
EYE
Big Bang 1986 Acrylic and spray paint on Stonehenge paper 38” x 50” collection Diane Lewis
Dot Coat - hand painted by Taro Suzuki for show at EM Donahue Gallery 1986 - Artists Choose Designer collaboration with Elizabeth Cannon
collection Mary Heilmann
Wonder Bred - 1985
I took a stroll down to utopia
Where nobody does nothing.
There ain’t nothing you can’t
Live with now.
Here we are in the future.
Lyrics composed by Taro Suzuki in 1979 for the rock band Youthinasia from The Pornography of Utopia written by Alan Jones for Arts Mag 1986
Hand
For me the process has come full circle. Perhaps in retrospect these closed figures are diagrams of the convoluted path I took from painting in 1975 through my work with light, objects and conceptualism—back to painting in 1990.
At a time when the media rules every aspect of our culture—where conceptualism is the most prevalent style, I see painting as an avant-garde act.
Excerpted from a letter written by the artist included in the essay Taro Suzuki: Finding the Loophole in Sisyphus’s Contract written by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo for his Whites Column show 1990
from 2 person show with Charlotte Halberg at Crush Curatorial - 36” x 36” Acrylic on canvas on panel - 2017
Mary Heilmann. “It’s not a picture”. Taro Suzuki “ Right! It’s not a picture. It’s an object, and beyond that, it’s physics. It’s light.” from conversation printed in 12 Month Crush by Hesse Flatow , edited by Nicole Kaak 2018
BRAIN
Constructivist Collage - Stefanotti Gallery - 1979
It sounds almost gimmicky: arranging thin planes of plexiglass on a shelf, installing a high-intensity spotlight above it to project the colored plastic on the wall. But Taro Suzuki is so forthright about his method, so sensitive to his medium, that the resulting message is quite clear, and not a little beautiful. He has reduced the planer dimension to two dimensions; literally he has made light of constructivism.
Gerald Mazorati Soho Weekly News review of show at Stefanotti Gallery 1982
