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14th Solo Art Exhibition:
SUZLEE IBRAHIM
2nd Sept. - 30 Oct. 2007
Artists Space, Concorde Hotel, Shah Alam, MALAYSIA
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Title: ‘Roots Series’
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The ‘Roots Series: An Introduction’ is the 14th. solo exhibition of Suzlee Ibrahim’s. Amongst Suzlee’s collector of his artworks from previous series (the Movement Series from 1995-2005) are, Balai Seni Lukis Negara (Movement Series, Highgrove - 2001) and Bank Negara (Movement Series, Tulip 1 - 2004). Suzlee proudly tells the later in ‘Roots Series’ is now in the safe of His Majesty The Yang Di-pertuan Agong Sultan Mizan (Lautan Biru - 2007).

The new theme, Roots Series started in the early of 2007. It is a continuation to the Movement Series which has marked its 12th year. The Movement series has stayed on since 1995 because of the love Suzlee felt for its expressive and spontaneous brush strokes and gestures on the canvas. In his new artworks Suzlee continues to play with colours and compositions. The paintings are finished with oil bar in confident lines coherently showing the ownership of abstract painting in his style. Like its name, ‘Roots Series: An Introduction’ is an exhibition to introduce a new series which exhibits Suzlee’s best twenty pieces for show.

Suzlee Ibrahim started painting seriously since 1987, while studying at the Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam. For 20 years, Suzlee focuses on becoming an abstract painter, and his effort is definitely paid off. His participation in arts does not limit in the country but he is also actively involved overseas. Some of the countries which Suzlee has displayed his artworks are the United Kingdom, USA, Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Brazil, Cuba, Spain, Canada, China, Argentina, Greece, Poland, UAE, Australia, Bangladesh and Nepal.




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Suzlee and The Monsoon Series: An Introduction
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16th Jan. - 30 Jan. 2010
Pinkguy Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
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Visual language is a universal language being the key to the knowledge of science communication. It is a vehicle to passing knowledge, interaction between human being and advancement to life quality improvement.

The process of producing art may look easy to some people. However, to those who are involved in the making of art knew that it took very long hours, days, months and sometimes years to produce good arts. No doubt it is tiring but the result of a good piece of art is worth the effort. High spirits and strong beliefs in what you do is the secret to stay long in scene and produce excellent art with souls and high quality.

“The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”
- Pablo Picasso

A good art is the expression of its creator. The artist should make art from love, sensitivity, desire, responsibility, likes, dislikes, anger or inner expression that has lost words but anxious to come out from the artist’s mind.

The latest of Suzlee’s work clearly walks towards these aggressive and wild feelings of expressions. The Monsoon Series (2009) is an advancement of a short experimental work named the Ombak Series (Wave Series) in 2007. Both series started after the very long year of Movement Series, which started in 1995 – 2005. In the Movement Series, the action involved psychomotor skills of the artist’s mobility. The brushes and painting tools moved and danced on the canvas with the artist’s instinct and mood experiencing nature. In both Ombak and Monsoon Series, his experience with the wilderness of the Monsoon season becomes the drive to initiate actions.

Suzlee was born and brought up in Kuala Terengganu, in the east coast of the Peninsular of Malaysia. The east coast receives massive rain towards the end of the year due to the Monsoon season. When he was small and at tender age, his witnessed pain and strive of the kampong people whom many were rubber tappers, farmers and fishermen survived the season.

It is a season that keeps sad, sad stories of kampong people that sheltered underneath roofs made of leaves and wooden houses. Their agony, their worries and pains do not receive any sympathies from the fierce winds that blow down the kampong or heavy rain that drown the land.

The memory of the heavy rain and harsh seas of the monsoon season have inspired Suzlee to paint the new series named the Monsoon Series. Still, without concentrating on any images, he expressed complex brush strokes, textures and skilled composition using limited colours on the canvases, producing purely abstract expressionist -‘action paintings’.

For the past 20 years, both acrylic and oil are the two main medium used on canvases for his all paintings.

Although both Ombak and Monsoon Series are his memories of the seas in his hometown, Ombak Series paintings have different mood. It is less aggressive in its presentation and use vibrant colours as highlights. The Monsoon Series focuses on dark, murky weather of the monsoon season and strong waves and current made from strong winds. These are shown in the use of limited secondary colours and fast, strong strokes on the canvases.

Suzlee is not new in Malaysian art scene. This exhibition is Suzlee’s 16th solo exhibition. Suzlee obtained his art education from the Institute of Technology, Shah Alam (1987) in fine arts. He showed his works in more than five hundred group exhibitions, local and overseas such as the United Kingdom, USA, Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Brazil, Cuba, Spain, Canada, China, Japan, Argentina, Greece, Poland, UAE, Australia, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Among the collectors of his artworks from the previous series are Balai Seni Lukis Negara (Movement Series, Highgrove, 2001), Bank Negara (Movement Series, Tulip 1, 2004) and EMAAR Properties, Dubai, UAE (Space Series, Construction 4,2005) and Lautan Biru – 2005 from the last of Movement Series is the collection of His Majesty The Yang Di-pertuan Agong Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin.

For this exhibition, Suzlee specially presented 26 pieces of the best of Monsoon Series displayed at the Pinkguy Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. It is Suzlee’s main concern to let Pinkguy Gallery as his representative to the new and definitely exclusive arts for serious collectors and art enthusiasts.

Victory

2000
80 x 100 cm

Blue

2000
80 x 100 cm

HIGHGROVE

2001/2002
Acrylic & oil on Canvas
195 cm x 240 cm

TULIP 1

2004
Acrylic & Oil on canvas

awakening 3

2009
acrylic & oil on canvas
90 cm x 90 cm

harmony

2009
acrylic & oil on canvas
90 cm x 90 cm