Sue Fox & Rylan Thompson (2024)
Dates of residency: Term 7： 11/5~11/30 2024
Sue Fox has deep ties to Chicago and is an artist with roots in the Myaamia people of Miami, Oklahoma. She now lives in beautiful Chattanooga, Tennessee. Working primarily with found printed materials, she continues to create colorful collage works that often resemble abstract paintings.
Sue Fox’s work is a form of meditation. Through intuitive collage, she follows color, light, and energy rather than strict control, creating works that offer viewers moments of reflection, calm, and discovery.
In a stressful and uncertain world, Fox sees her art as both a personal refuge and a quiet political act. Her ongoing series, Color Meditations, creates space for stillness and emotional restoration.
During her stay at Saikoneon, she was inspired not only by the beauty of Lake Saiko and Mount Fuji, but also by the residency’s tourist surroundings. Using images from local brochures and flyers, she created distinctive collage works that reflected her balanced attention to both nature and human society.
Rylan Thompson is likewise an artist based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His work centers on ink drawing, often combined with collage and color media, resulting in complex arrangements of imagery that evoke fantastical structures or machines.
Rylan Thompson sees drawing as a way of filtering and understanding the world. His work begins from many kinds of visual impressions—cities at night, patterns, signs, shapes, or fragments of everyday life—and develops through a personal language of imagery built over time. In his drawings, symbols, organic forms, and architecture merge into spaces that feel both familiar and strangely unreal.
His recent series, Shrine Mutations, consists of impossible shrine-like objects that seem to exist more in dreams than in reality. Rather than delivering a fixed message, his work values transformation, surprise, and the discovery of unexpected forms.
While maintaining his own distinctive drawing style, Rylan immersed himself in creating new works that skillfully combined the landscapes around Mt. Fuji with signs, social imagery, and various patterns found in Tokyo and other places.
Works by Sue Fox
Works by Rylan Thompson
Sue Fox & Rylan Thompson (2024)
Dates of residency: Term 7： 11/5~11/30 2024
Sue Fox has deep ties to Chicago and is an artist with roots in the Myaamia people of Miami, Oklahoma. She now lives in beautiful Chattanooga, Tennessee. Working primarily with found printed materials, she continues to create colorful collage works that often resemble abstract paintings.
Sue Fox’s work is a form of meditation. Through intuitive collage, she follows color, light, and energy rather than strict control, creating works that offer viewers moments of reflection, calm, and discovery.
In a stressful and uncertain world, Fox sees her art as both a personal refuge and a quiet political act. Her ongoing series, Color Meditations, creates space for stillness and emotional restoration.
During her stay at Saikoneon, she was inspired not only by the beauty of Lake Saiko and Mount Fuji, but also by the residency’s tourist surroundings. Using images from local brochures and flyers, she created distinctive collage works that reflected her balanced attention to both nature and human society.
Rylan Thompson is likewise an artist based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His work centers on ink drawing, often combined with collage and color media, resulting in complex arrangements of imagery that evoke fantastical structures or machines.
Rylan Thompson sees drawing as a way of filtering and understanding the world. His work begins from many kinds of visual impressions—cities at night, patterns, signs, shapes, or fragments of everyday life—and develops through a personal language of imagery built over time. In his drawings, symbols, organic forms, and architecture merge into spaces that feel both familiar and strangely unreal.
His recent series, Shrine Mutations, consists of impossible shrine-like objects that seem to exist more in dreams than in reality. Rather than delivering a fixed message, his work values transformation, surprise, and the discovery of unexpected forms.
While maintaining his own distinctive drawing style, Rylan immersed himself in creating new works that skillfully combined the landscapes around Mt. Fuji with signs, social imagery, and various patterns found in Tokyo and other places.
Works by Sue Fox
Works by Rylan Thompson