Vivian Suter

This Swiss artist born in Argentina has spent the last 30 years living and working in the Guatemalan rainforest—an experience she cites as being an instrumental influence on her work. Her show at Gladstone appears to bear this out. The gallery is filled with un-stretched canvases of varying dimensions, pinned to the walls, spread on the floor, and suspended from the ceiling like so many goods hung in a stall at a Central American market. Each piece of fabric has been thinly painted with a variety of forms—some purely abstract, some more evocative of figures and landscapes—in a range of bright colors. Maximalist and minimalist at the same time, Suter’s installation suggests a space being crowded by a jungle of art.