Raccoon Fox

2025

mixed media on paper

4 x 8 in.

$350

Suzanne Sbarge brings together LDBA’s paints with collage in mysterious and inventive compositions.
Pink mountains, billowing clouds, gradient skies, and distant horizons set the stage for relationships among life forms. In this body of work, animals and plants are not background scenery; their presence points to the more-than-human world of the inner life. Drawing on the language of myth, the artist’s compositions connect everyday reality to dreams and ecology.

Sbarge made these new collage-based paintings at LDBA in her workshops this year, on her recent art residencies in Utah and Mexico, and in her Albuquerque studio. She says, “I created many of these pieces in my workshops at LDBA, and they have a spontaneity to them that feels fresh and loose. I am in a new phase and teaching has invigorated my approach. My work is informed by mutual learning and being in dialogue with other artists.”

The show at LDBA follows Sbarge’s solo museum exhibition at Ogden Contemporary Arts in Ogden, Utah where she was the 2025 Artist-in-Residence, a major award supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andy Warhol for the Visual Arts, among others.