Suzanne Caporael is nationally known as one of America's most exciting artists and has been printing
at Tandem Press since 1996.
The recent Salt Marsh Suite and Hudson River Series explore the temporal beauty of the estuary along
with the structural template of water itself, that place of exchange at the very edge between the
river and sea, where the tide meets the current and civilizations are born. Caporael investigates
the physical world and transforms the intellectual and methodical data she has collected into
sublime and resonate images.
In 1999 when Caporael moved to New York, she became interested in the properties in snow. Snow led to
ice, ice lead to sea ice, and she developed a particular interest in pack ice. Continuously drifting
under the influence of wind, tide, and current, the ice breaks into tension and compression zones,
sometimes producing navigable openings (shore leads, flaw leads) and at other times fracturing
hummocking, ridging, and rafting.
