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Painting by Sue Hettmansperger, "Iterations" series (oil painting on linen, group of four, 56" x 55", 2021). The painting illustrates a mature period in Sue Hettmansperger's career in the 2000s, during which she has produced paintings that employ modernist abstraction and representational imagery to interconnectedness of human, botanical and inorganic systems and ecological concerns. These works¬—in this case, the later "Iterations" series—often feature emblem-like, flattened aggregations of forms that float near the center of ambiguous spaces. They have been noted for their dystopic ecological urgencyand likened to images of wreckage or fossilized remains of the present found in the distant future. This work and similar works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Sue Hettmansperger. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a mature body of work in Sue Hettmansperger's career: her paintings of the 2000s, which employ modernist abstraction and representational imagery to interconnectedness of human, botanical and inorganic systems and ecological concerns. Her work is linked to both the American modernist tradition of abstract or abstracted art rooted in nature and to 19th-century natural history painters. These works most often feature lone, multi-dimensional structures of interwoven elements that float near the center of undefined spaces. They have been noted for their dystopic ecological urgency, expressed through saturated colors, emblem-like forms, imagery of industrial by-products, and distortions created through digital manipulation. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this key body of work in her oeuvre. Hettmansperger's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Sue Hettmansperger, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

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