Sarah Canright Exhibition
CUE Art Foundation
This event has ended.
My current work is an extension of a lifelong engagement with painting paintings that do not pretend to be anything but painting, while including the practice and pleasures of drawing.
Painting is essentially an abstract experience, translating absence into presence through drawing, surface, and the language of marks in order to describe, respond to, make sense of, possess, express, and enjoy the physicality of the world. In this body of work, I have utilized the image of my dogs and cats as they are beloved to me and provide a vehicle for contemplating both mortality and ecstatic form. The images also provide forms for working out the challenges of combining a reductive sensibility with illusion.
Coupling images of vulnerability with exacting pictorial organization, I work towards an inviting tactility, feeling out the surface, creating with paint the visual experience of physical presence. These works are coolly and meticulously constructed pictures of un-cool, domesticated subject matter. The relationship between the body and the physicality of a painting, as well as the relationship between complex visual activity and the experience of silence that occurs on the receptive surface of canvas is endlessly engaging.
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Schedule
from November 19, 2011 to January 14, 2012
Opening Reception on 2011-11-19 from 18:00 to 20:00