Published in Ceramics Monthly, March 2013
"Canadian artist Susan Low-Beer’s solo exhibition at the David Kaye Gallery in Toronto last winter, About Face, invites its audience into active participation. Low-Beer presented 26 ceramic heads, each sitting on its own plaster or found-material base, exhibited somewhat eerily at ‘about face’ level to the viewer’s vantage. The effect was spell-binding. It is virtually impossible not to automatically project your own story on to the inanimate lives of these pieces. In conversation with the series of sculptures was Ra, a series of five giglées (high-resolution digital scans printed with archival quality inks) collaged onto specialty pleated Japanese paper. The images for this series found their antecedent in the photographic negative of the original two-part mould from which About Face originated. Given the figurative nature of the work, it is all the more intriguing that Low-Beer does not name the works.... "
