Derived from the solitary act of commuting across the Bay Bridge, these works explore the interplay of structural elements, lights and shadows to produce beautiful and haunting abstracts.  The flashes of light and streaking shadows glimpsed in those brief glances that reside just outside our pedestrian visual consciousness of cars, asphalt, iron and water are the groundwork for these skillfully rendered, meditative paintings.

Initially, Ms. Subercaseaux’s paintings read as pure, minimalist abstraction.  Only upon deeper inspection does one begin to perceive the familiar.  And if the viewer is inured to commuting across the Bay Bridge - one of the busiest bridges in the United States, it carries an average of nearly 300,000 cars a day – or crossing any body of water for that matter, then the personal revelation of the image emerges.  This intersection of the abstract and concrete (quite literally) produces deeply moving, as well as accessible, images.

“…Anne Subercaseaux realizes an ambition pursued by all visual artists who aspire to more than ephemeral significance for their works – an indissoluble union of perceptions and imaginings, of ideas and feelings guided by discipline and stimulated by intuition to give expression to a unique vision in form and color.  She creates for the viewer representations of the environment that they recognize with satisfaction as familiar, and yet she gifts them with much more than representational painting. In all her works, even the most modest, she conveys intimations of the mystery that dwells beyond the façade of the commonplace.  And in her finest works…she conveys a sense of the sublime equilibrium of life.” - Robert McDonald, “The Art of Anne Subercaseaux”, 1995.