Look At This is an oil painting by Chinese-born, Pittsburgh-based artist Su Su, whose Masterful technique results in fantastical, dreamlike images that offer a unique perspective on intercultural exchange. This painting includes Su Su’s own image as part of the content, but it is not exactly a portrait. By adding herself into her painted images, the artist is writing herself into an aesthetic lineage that connects Eastern and Western art history.

Recent exhibitions of Su Su's work include Chautauqua Institution of Art, NY (2019); The Andy Warhol Museum 25th anniversary exhibition (2019); The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (2020); The Carnegie Museum of Art (2020); the Muskegon Museum of Art (2021); and the de la Cruz Collection (2021). Works by Su Su are held in the permanent collections of de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; The Bennett Prize Art Collection, Muskegon, MI; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; and The International Spy Museum, Washington, DC, among others.

Su Su’s works speak to the complicated and confusing experiences she has had as an immigrant to the United States. The distorted, swirling world of liquified iconographies melting together with Su Su’s face and body reflects her struggle with the misunderstandings that shape the way China and the United States understand and portray each other’s cultures. Her paintings bring together symbolic references, historical cues, and tidbits borrowed from mass media and pop culture to create a jittery, beautiful hybrid image with the capacity to re-shape our understanding of our interconnected world.