Weeping Women: Lillian Supanich
One-Off Exhibitions•Sep 26, 2025 — Nov 01, 2025
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In WEEPING WOMEN, subjects are not simply given, they are constructed and taken apart all at once. They’re revealed to us in pieces. Lillian Supanich approaches painting knowing it can hold ambivalence or outright contradiction; knowing it can embrace messiness. Messy oppositions between legibility and illegibility, construction and decay, and surface and depth each compete in her work. Central to Weeping Women is another uncertainty: the rule of a strict naturalistic order vs a slippage of such rigid representative methods into a delirious ‘dumbness’ (as artist and educator Adolph Rosenblatt might have put it).
The title, WEEPING WOMEN, is lifted from the Modernist trope of broken-down, fractured and failing women but offers a contemporary, queer reading of this embodiment. The painted figures, denied a stable self, have no unified inner essence to reveal. Through painterly executions she returns to ideas of subject formation from a queer…
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Weeping Women: Lillian Supanich
One-Off Exhibitions•Sep 26, 2025 — Nov 01, 2025
Press Release
In WEEPING WOMEN, subjects are not simply given, they are constructed and taken apart all at once. They’re revealed to us in pieces. Lillian Supanich approaches painting knowing it can hold ambivalence or outright contradiction; knowing it can embrace messiness. Messy oppositions between legibility and illegibility, construction and decay, and surface and depth each compete in her work. Central to Weeping Women is another uncertainty: the rule of a strict naturalistic order vs a slippage of such rigid representative methods into a delirious ‘dumbness’ (as artist and educator Adolph Rosenblatt might have put it).
The title, WEEPING WOMEN, is lifted from the Modernist trope of broken-down, fractured and failing women but offers a contemporary, queer reading of this embodiment. The painted figures, denied a stable self, have no unified inner essence to reveal. Through painterly executions she returns to ideas of subject formation from a queer…
