About the Artist
Sue Hutchins, was born an artist. She developed her passion for visual arts at the Otis-Parson School of Design in Los Angeles, California, where she earned a B.F.A. degree. A former Hollywood set painter, her fine art has shown up on camera too, employed by set designers from such shows as Friends, The Ellen Show, Couplings, Gilmore Girls, Six Feet Under, Gramercy Park, Roswell, Emeril, Raising Helen and many commercials. Sue Hutchins’ original works can be found in the collections of noteworthy patrons Allie Mills, Orson Bean, Robbie Conal, Peter Sellars and the late Dr. Timothy Leary.
About the Work
In this series of paintings the viewer is lured into a single action shot taken from film. Film Noir mainly, with a few exceptions from the world of Mystery and Suspense. The narrations of the film present sublime compositions that capture moments of indecision. The choice whether to continue down the path of destruction versus another way. Which leads to the Jungian shadow, the archetype described as the darker side of the psyche, representing wildness, chaos, and the unknown. These latent dispositions are present in all of us, although people often deny this element of their own psyche and instead project it onto others. The act of projection rarely leads to any useful form of enlightenment. To take ownership of one’s faults without causing harm to the environment in which we exist is aspirational, yet attainable. And I swear that is the last edit for today. The paintings are attempting to reach the feeble goal of introducing the viewer into the realm of integration. For Jung, the ultimate aim was for an individual to achieve a sense of cohesive self, similar in many ways to Maslow’s concept of self-actualization.