Kavi Gupta Gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • News
  • Viewing Room
  • Editions
  • Events & Art Fairs
  • Public Works
  • Podcast
  • Information
  • Mission
Menu

Su Su

  • Works
  • Exhibitions
  • Video
  • Press
  • Events
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Su Su, Be Your Mirror, 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Su Su, Be Your Mirror, 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Su Su, Be Your Mirror, 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Su Su, Be Your Mirror, 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Su Su, Be Your Mirror, 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Su Su, Be Your Mirror, 2022

Su Su

Be Your Mirror, 2022
Oil on silk
41 3/4 x 51 1/2 in
106 x 130.8 cm
8618
Enquire
%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22artist%22%3ESu%20Su%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22title_and_year%22%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_title%22%3EBe%20Your%20Mirror%3C/span%3E%2C%20%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_year%22%3E2022%3C/span%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22medium%22%3EOil%20on%20silk%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22dimensions%22%3E41%203/4%20x%2051%201/2%20in%3Cbr/%3E%0A106%20x%20130.8%20cm%3C/div%3E

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Su Su, You've Got a Little Something, 2021
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Su Su, You've Got a Little Something, 2021
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Su Su, You've Got a Little Something, 2021
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Su Su, You've Got a Little Something, 2021
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) Su Su, You've Got a Little Something, 2021
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) Su Su, You've Got a Little Something, 2021
  • Be Your Mirror
Be Your Mirror is an oil painting by Chinese-born, Pittsburgh-based artist Su Su. The image portrays mirrored double images of Su Su’s face. Among Su Su’s artist inspirations is German...
Read more
Be Your Mirror is an oil painting by Chinese-born, Pittsburgh-based artist Su Su. The image portrays mirrored double images of Su Su’s face. Among Su Su’s artist inspirations is German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer, who famously painted himself as Christ. For Su Su, this was an act of confidence that artists have more to offer than their subject matter. By painting herself into her images, Su Su is literally giving audiences her own body and essence. Her painting process is complicated and labor-some, leaving traces of her own pain and exhaustion behind in the work. That is particularly true with this painting, which belongs to a body of work Su Su refers to as Bombyx paintings. Using a technique of her own invention, she creates these works by extruding oil paints from behind the canvas, working in reverse. Gravity pulls the injected streams downward, creating a phantasmagoric forest of hair-like projectiles from which the haunting, uncanny image emerges. Su Su developed this technique as a material celebration of paint itself. The name Bombyx comes from the work’s relationship to the Bombyx moth, which makes silk. The paintings exist on a silk substrate, and the injected streams of oil paint resemble the cilia-like hairs of a Bombyx moth. The name also references an experience Su Su had when working in the studio, when a moth flew in through the window and landed on one of her paintings. She liked the look of the moth on the painting, which led her to begin incorporating moths onto the surfaces of many of her Bombyx paintings. Su Su’s work offers a new and unique understanding of intercultural exchange—a jittery, beautiful hybrid of mass media, pop culture, history, and memory with the capacity to shape our understanding of our interconnected world.
Close full details
Share
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Previous
|
Next
1 
of  29

Contact: +1  708-480-2882

General Inquiries: info@kavigupta.com

Media Inquiries: media@kavigupta.com

Client & Sales Inquiries: client@kavigupta.com

Publications: Kavi Gupta Editions

Facebook Twitter Instagram Newsletter

Kavi Gupta Washington Blvd

835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL 60607

Hours | Tue–Fri: 11 am–6 pm, Sat: 12 pm–5 pm

Kavi Gupta Elizabeth St

219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL 60607 
Hours | By appointment only

 

 

Kavi Gupta Warehouse

2108 S. California Ave. Chicago, IL 60608

Kavi Gupta New Buffalo

215 E. Buffalo St. #219 New Buffalo, MI 49117

Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Artsy, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
View on Google Maps
Ocula, opens in a new tab.
Manage cookies
2025 Kavi Gupta
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences