Photograph of Artist SUZLEE IBRAHIM
SUZLEE IBRAHIM
40000 SHAH ALAM, Selangor - Malaysia



Original Artworks (6)

Suzlee Ibrahim; METAMORPOHOSIS, 2009, Original Painting Acrylic, 90 x 90 cm.
Suzlee Ibrahim
Original Acrylic Painting, 2009
90 x 90 cm (35.4 x 35.4 inches)
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Suzlee Ibrahim; AWAKENING 3, 2009, Original Painting Acrylic, 90 x 90 cm.
Suzlee Ibrahim
Original Acrylic Painting, 2009
90 x 90 cm (35.4 x 35.4 inches)
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Suzlee Ibrahim; Spirit Of The Winds, 2002, Original Painting Acrylic, 300 x 250 cm. Artwork description: 241 Collection: Remisen Academy, Brande, DENMARK...
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Original Acrylic Painting, 2002
300 x 250 cm (118.1 x 98.4 inches)
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Suzlee Ibrahim; Movement Series IKA, 2001, Original Painting Acrylic, 240 x 195 cm. Artwork description: 241 Masterpiece 2000/ 01Collection: Tanah Licin Sdn. Bhd...
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Original Acrylic Painting, 2001
240 x 195 cm (94.5 x 76.8 inches)
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Suzlee Ibrahim; Movement Series HIGHGROVE, 2001, Original Painting Acrylic, 240 x 195 cm. Artwork description: 241 Collection: National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
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Original Acrylic Painting, 2001
240 x 195 cm (94.5 x 76.8 inches)
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Suzlee Ibrahim; Movement Series  Forrest ..., 2000, Original Painting Other, 100 x 80 cm. Artwork description: 241 Collection: Central Bank of Malaysia( Bank Negara Malaysia)...
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Original Other Painting, 2000
100 x 80 cm (39.4 x 31.5 inches)
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Artist Statement

'Monsoon'
Pinkguy Art Gallery, Kuala lumpur (2010)

Visual language is a universal language being the key to the knowledge of science communication. It is a vehicle to passing knowledge, interaction between human being and advancement to life quality improvement.

The process of producing art may look easy to some people. However, to those who are involved in the making of art knew that it took very long hours, days, months and sometimes years to produce good arts. No doubt it is tiring but the result of a good piece of art is worth the effort. High spirits and strong beliefs in what you do is the secret to stay long in scene and produce excellent art with souls and high quality.

“The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”
- Pablo Picasso

A good art is the expression of its creator. The artist should make art from love, sensitivity, desire, responsibility, likes, dislikes, anger or inner expression that has lost words but anxious to come out from the artist’s mind.

The latest of Suzlee’s work clearly walks towards these aggressive and wild feelings of expressions. The Monsoon Series (2009) is an advancement of a short experimental work named the Ombak Series (Wave Series) in 2007. Both series started after the very long year of Movement Series, which started in 1995 – 2005. In the Movement Series, the action involved psychomotor skills of the artist’s mobility. The brushes and painting tools moved and danced on the canvas with the artist’s instinct and mood experiencing nature. In both Ombak and Monsoon Series, his experience with the wilderness of the Monsoon season becomes the drive to initiate actions.

Suzlee was born and brought up in Kuala Terengganu, in the east coast of the Peninsular of Malaysia. The east coast receives massive rain towards the end of the year due to the Monsoon season. When he was small and at tender age, his witnessed pain and strive of the kampong people whom many were rubber tappers, farmers and fishermen survived the season.

It is a season that keeps sad, sad stories of kampong people that sheltered underneath roofs made of leaves and wooden houses. Their agony, their worries and pains do not receive any sympathies from the fierce winds that blow down the kampong or heavy rain that drown the land.

The memory of the heavy rain and harsh seas of the monsoon season have inspired Suzlee to paint the new series named the Monsoon Series. Still, without concentrating on any images, he expressed complex brush strokes, textures and skilled composition using limited colours on the canvases, producing purely abstract expressionist -‘action paintings’.

For the past 20 years, both acrylic and oil are the two main medium used on canvases for his all paintings.

Although both Ombak and Monsoon Series are his memories of the seas in his hometown, Ombak Series paintings have different mood. It is less aggressive in its presentation and use vibrant colours as highlights. The Monsoon Series focuses on dark, murky weather of the monsoon season and strong waves and current made from strong winds. These are shown in the use of limited secondary colours and fast, strong strokes on the canvases.

Suzlee is not new in Malaysian art scene. This exhibition is Suzlee’s 16th solo exhibition. Suzlee obtained his art education from the Institute of Technology, Shah Alam (1987) in fine arts. He showed his works in more than five hundred group exhibitions, local and overseas such as the United Kingdom, USA, Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Brazil, Cuba, Spain, Canada, China, Japan, Argentina, Greece, Poland, UAE, Australia, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Among the collectors of his artworks from the previous series are Balai Seni Lukis Negara (Movement Series, Highgrove, 2001), Bank Negara (Movement Series, Tulip 1, 2004) and EMAAR Properties, Dubai, UAE (Space Series, Construction 4,2005) and Lautan Biru – 2005 from the last of Movement Series is the collection of His Majesty The Yang Di-pertuan Agong Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin.

For this exhibition, Suzlee specially presented 26 pieces of the best of Monsoon Series displayed at the Pinkguy Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. It is Suzlee’s main concern to let Pinkguy Gallery as his representative to the new and definitely exclusive arts for serious collectors and art enthusiasts.

-PINKGUY ART GALLERY

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The Kingdom: Painting The Expression
Pinkguy Art Gallery, KL (6-18 Jan 2012)

Monsoon Series had successfully met and won many hearts at Suzlee’s last Solo Exhibition in 2009. To close the dynamic year of Suzlee’s painting career in 2011, Suzlee has produced another new series of work called ‘The Kingdom’.

The Kingdom is based on Suzlee’s first expedition with a few friends to Kota Gelanggi Caves, Pahang. Kota Gelanggi is a historical old city that holds approximately 100 caves around it. The mythical caves are the habitat of unique flora and fauna. The place, which is known to archaeological remain is believed existed approximately 1500 years ago. Going through the woods, Suzlee was thrilled by formations of rocks around the cave area. There were places which he had to climb and slopes that he had to slide in the darkness of the cave. It was nothing but tiring, fear and tense; at the same time his anxiety grew more and more to know how this journey would end. High spirits showed by the team had encouraged them to complete the expedition with endless satisfaction to this new experience. Suzlee’s ‘emotional expression’ and ‘interpretation’ of the Kota Gelanggi Caves has developed the new series of paintings.

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