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Sue De Beer

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As an art collector, I purchased this book to more thoroughly familiarize myself with the already important body of work produced by young american artist Sue De Beer. This book provides a richly illustrative and cohesive overview of her work in all of its forms.

I had the pleasure of attending this books launch and having my copy signed by the very young and very sweet Sue De Beer. Sue is one of the most promising young artists working today. Her work loosly explores the psychology of youth while encompassing the dark orb of popular culture. References to 80s slasher movies, school shootings, and death metal abound in her brightly colored and surreal world. Her video works are usually displayed in an interactive environment, massive walk-in doll houses, beanbag lounges with giant stuffed animals, etcetera. The essays in the book are informative as to the whereabouts of which her practice stems, it's a very straight-forward read and nothing too complicated. But the joy of this edition is in the photos, almost all of which are color and glossy and just gorgeous. Sue is not only a master of the macabre, but the worlds in which her downtrodden teenagers inhabit are a wonderland of rainbow colored gothhood. Imagine if A Nightmare on Elm Street had been directed by Busby Berkely and written by Alain Robbe Grillet with a budget of $600. It's a shifty, confusing, and darkly ravishing world she creates and this book is a lovely artifact of her realm.