Eve Sussman is conflating painting and video in a most extraordinary manner. Represented by Roebling Hall in Brooklyn, she's seems to be weaving narratives employing the richness of real time video with the lushness of oil painting. Her piece 89 Seconds at Alcazar, shot in high definition video tells the before and after story of Velázque's famous painting Las Meninas. Shown at the 2004 at the Whitney Biennial, the piece is being followed up by an opera, Raptus - a piece inspired by Jacques Louis David painting The Rape of the Sabine Women - which from what I've seen is seemingly just as brilliant. Eve Sussman's art is similar to Sam Taylor Wood's monumentally constructed photos, mostly I'm thinking mostly of her Five Revolutionary Seconds series but all her other photo and video work as well. I first saw Eve's work in Modern Painters and liked it but I'm more and more finding it better and better to look at and think about. Lovely.
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