Since 2017 Susan Laney’s eponymous gallery has hosted a wide variety of thoughtfully diverse shows highlighting work by emerging and established regional and international contemporary artists. She has become a curator and gallerist of note in the Southeast and beyond, consistently bringing her artists to international art fairs in Miami and New York, and placing work in such prestigious public and private collections as Savannah’s own Telfair Museums and SCAD Museum of Art, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, and Charleston’s Gibbes Museum of Art.
Her latest show, entitled emotion , opens Friday, Sept. 27, the seventh anniversary, to the day, of the opening of Laney Contemporary, and sadly, also the day of the gallerist’s mother’s death four years ago: “a wonderful, crazy, lovely, and emotional accident.”
It seems fitting that this exhibition is curated by two women, is installed in a female-owned gallery, and displays work by seven female artists. Born on the seventh day of the seventh month, Laney has always intuitively recognized the cultural and spiritual significance of that number. As her press release states, there are seven days of the week, seven chakras, seven dwarves, seven steps taken by the newborn Buddha, seven circumambulations around the shrine at Mecca… “Whether seeing all 7’s appear on a slot machine, or travelling to the seven wonders of the world, seven is unequivocally embedded within our numerological psyche.”