Tracy Phillips and Susan Roth

Artist Bios

TRACY PHILLIPS

Tracy Phillips graduated with a BFA from the Parsons School of Design in 1983. The artist, who resides in Saugerties, NY, has had shows in Manhattan, in Brooklyn, Saugerties, Nyack, Jersey City, and abroad in France and in 2023, in Venice, Italy. Phillips has received many awards and has been in shows juried by curators from the Whitney, the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum. The imaginative exuberance this artist portrays is riveting. There is a lightness, a whimsy that is conveyed at the same time as curiosity arises. Observing Tracy Phillips’s work we are drawn in to her rhythmic sway of vivacious color, form and line while we wonder about the depth and the dynamics of her conversations here.

SUSAN ROTH

Susan Roth worked with Larry Poons, Knox Martin, Ronnie Lansfield and Mary Beth McKenzie at the Arts Students League. Since 2004 the artist has shown in New York City and regularly in galleries near her upstate home, in Rhinebeck, Pines Plains, Millerton, Ancram, New York and in Lakeville, Connecticut. Roth has shown with us at the Lodge and is returning for our summer 2025 show.

“Growing up in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, I had the fortunate opportunity to be selected from city wide student high school populations to participate in art classes funded by the Carnegie Mellon Art Museum, which triggered my interest in art and painting. After moving to New York I studied at the Arts Students League. At present I divide my time between a studio in New York City and one in the gentle rolling hills of the Hudson Valley. Both provides diverse physical surrounds to explore my joyful feelings about color and space. In recent years I have devoted myself full time to oil painting. My paintings usually originate from a landscape, still life or city scene. I then exaggerate the mental image into a bold composition with strong colors to express my mood about the view. I attempt to push the image to abstraction with a positive and happy feeling. My emphasis is always strong composition and strong colors. While inspired by the outside world, my expression comes from my inner feelings. Color is my vocabulary.“