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Ethereal and minimal, Susan English’s paintings play with light and space. She employs transparent pigments and layering to manipulate light and illuminate her color fields. Soft variations and subtle textures appear across the gauzy surfaces soothing and disrupting the meditative environment. Describing the importance of light in her work, English writes, “Paintings, in a sense, are "still light"—light captured and distilled into permanence. My work is a response to my experience of light. Color is light and light is color. The color, which is made by pouring layers of tinted …