Susanna Cavalletti, a fifth generation Coloradan, received both her BFA and her MFA in printmaking, drawing, painting and art history from the university she also now teaches, the University of Colorado in Boulder.

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Susanna Cavalletti
Spark Gallery
By Michael Paglia
Published: May 10, 2007 Westword

There are two member shows at Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200) featuring work by established artists. On the gallery's west side is the self-titled Susanna Cavalletti; in the space to the east is Mysteries of Babylon, which highlights recent paintings by Peter Illig. The two are as different as night and day, with the Cavalletti exhibit filled with earthy-colored landscapes and abstractions based on landscapes, and the Illig outing made up of lurid images of forbidden lust done in brassy hues.

Cavalletti is a longtime member of Spark, having joined back in the 1980s. For most of that time she was known as Susanna Cavalletti Podboy, but since her divorce, she's gone back to her birth name. She's also making a change aesthetically, and though there is at least one literal depiction of a landscape, "East, New Light" (pictured) -- which is the kind of thing that's been her signature -- most of the other paintings are abstract. According to Cavalletti, this is the first time she's ever exhibited a body of abstract paintings. Her principal interests in these pieces is in painterly effects and surface features, and the works have an encrusted quality, with smudges of paint put on with knives as opposed to brushes.

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