Detail, Field Notes, 14”x19,” ink/mixed media, 2023
Natural turbulence and abstract harmony: in natural ink, water-based paint, and India ink Sutro draws and paints the wild with its chaotic and quirky patterns, and minimal, often Utopian Landscapes.
In recent paintings, Conversations (below), she combines minimal landscape with interactions among people of different experience, and encounters between different worlds. Poetically mixing ideas of power with ideals of social justice, paintings explore themes of mythology, identity and time. Brilliantly colored, mysterious, they reach toward new alignments of culture.
Landscape with Figures, acrylic on canvas, 12x16,” 2023