Eileen Raucher-Sutton – Critical Reviews
New York-born artist celebrates desert surrounding Henderson
Caitlyn Belcher , July 9, 2014
Las Vegas Review Journal
"An American painter who made a name for herself in New York City before moving to Canada in 1984, Eileen Raucher-Sutton treats rock formations as the bones of landscape they are but with obvious regard for the elements that shaped them. Still, a canvas that, say, records layers deposited and eroded by water can easily be read as an abstraction with overtones of art nouveau - and, more significant perhaps, a strong undertow of sensuality Ultimately, Sutton's rocks divided by dark rivers and pools become metaphors for the female anatomy "
Vivien Raynor, May, 1997
Art Critic, New York Times
"Eileen Raucher-Sutton's large watercolors often present beguiling transparent, near symmetrical flowers "en face," but her work here is of another kind. "Night Blooming Cereus III" resembles a botanical drawing in its specificity, but it has a fantasmal presence in terms of pale, moist color The diagrammatic aspect of the botanical drawing dissolves into an organically soaked form. Her watercolor is of a form in isolation, but it is sinuous and variegate. Raucher-Sutton is celebrating one form's uniqueness, without schematization: her subject is the wayward and unpredictable course of an organic structure."
Lawrence Alloway, October 1983
Critics Choice, A.A.R.G.
"Eileen Raucher-Sutton, has mastered the art of bringing nature's beauty and form into our visual and cerebral being. Her watercolors are deft, exciting, and meaningful...conveying to us a sensuous envelopment of nature the abounds in abundance."
Daniel Lewitt, September 1983
Deal Fine Arts Gallery, N.J.
"Eileen Raucher-Sutton steals this show with her larger than elephant folio watercolors of succulent cacti and flowers. The color of plants is captured specifically for enhancing our appreciation... Ms. Sutton brings vivaciousness to the quiet drama silently unfolding in the plant world. Her "Prickly Pear is evidence few could miss hailing."
Shenbaz H. Safrani, June 1981
Artspeak, N Y.C.
"Her line is Sutton's special feature - rhythmic, undulating, seductive."
Palmer Poroner, January, 1980
Artspeak, N Y.C.
"Sutton showed watercolor paintings of oversized flowers on white paper or against an implied landscape...Rhythm and spatial ambiguity are provided by the movement of petals, the furling and unfurling of leaves, the use of transparent and opaque paint and cropping on two or three sides... "Lament" and "Easter Lily" are enriched by the transparency of petals which impart a sense of mystery to the space and ethereality to the forms."
Ruth Bass, May, 1980
Art News, N Y.C.
"Eileen Raucher-Sutton - Energy-filled abstracted nature in watercolors. A show of special distinction."
Holly Pinto, November 1977
New York Magazine, N.Y.C.
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For more information contact Eileen Raucher-Sutton at:
554 Mountain Links Drive • Henderson, NV 89012 • (702) 413-8330
eileenrauchersutton@gmail.com
