Suzanne McClelland includes large-scale paintings, works on paper, and books in her practice. These often extract fragments of speech or text from various cultural sources; explore the social, symbolic, and material possibilities that reside within language; and celebrate the physicality of speech and sound. McClelland parses such issues as the limitations and malleability of communication, the impact of technology on interpreting information, and the mechanics of translation. Her works are infused with social commentary, underscoring the way in which language itself is gendered and politicized by its physical and spatial context.