Bravery and bathos
Her Web site says:
Her Web site says her figurative and abstract work … evokes the natural landscape and human forms to explore separation and interconnectedness using color, grids, and unexpected imagery that viscerally stimulates the viewer to perceive/experience something new to them. While Susan works from her impressions of the natural world, she also draws upon pillars of art history, such as ancient works by Buddhist and Indian artists in the East and Western contemporary masters like Agnes Martin and Hilma af Klint.’’
No surprise: A house not necessarily a home in the '50s, or now
The gallery notes say she creates "complicated imagery featuring women in stereotypical gender roles and dress, from the shoulders down.''
"House has a much colder connotation than home does...'housed' creates a feeling closer to being trapped than to being comforted.''
The picture certainly evokes the '50s or perhaps '60s. Note that she's reading the long-dead McCall's magazine.