Susan Zulauf's Breeze Triptych

Each of the three panels that compose Susan Zulauf's Breeze Triptych is finished by hand, its vitreous surface catching light with the quiet luminosity that only gold leaf can sustain. The intimate scale — thirteen inches square per canvas, set within wood frames of considered depth — invites the work to inhabit a tight vignette or anchor a more expansive arrangement with equal authority. There is a stillness to the series, a sense of suspended atmosphere that speaks to Zulauf's mastery of surface and tone.