Tupper Saussy’s images conjure exotic locales and dreamy environments. The scenes and subjects he presents draw one into a world of delicately washed color, unexpected pattern, and unique viewpoint.

Saussy has always been iconoclastic ~ in his writings, his music, and now in visual art. He likes to upend expectations...

I particularly respond to the way he subverts straightforward landscape images by confronting ordinariness with lyricism.

Saussy’s world travels have yielded some fine, rare subjects for his work, but it is often the mundane and familiar that he somehow elevates through his technique. The key to his success is in his sharp ability to see the singularity of his images, to visualize fresh insights, and to compose these ideas in revealing ways.

Many viewers of contemporary art are (rightfully) annoyed at what they perceive to be encoded ~ or even dead secret ~ meanings in art work that are closed to them.  Saussy includes the viewer in his ideas without condescension.  If there can be one descriptive phrase to connect Saussy’s best works, it would be “poetry of place.” There is a clear poetic evocation of the essential nature of the place ~ a visual reduction to its very character ~ that connects with the viewer. [His]envisioning [of] the ordinary leads the viewer into realms of imagination, and into recognition that art and life rather unnervingly imitate each other.