Sarah Leahy "Portrait"
Kim Foster Gallery
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Kim Foster presents recent paintings by Sarah Leahy. Her new exhibit PORTRAIT started with the intention to make interior images, and give form to things recognizable. From this effort grew a series of black and white paintings that are parts of a whole, like pages in a book. The connection between the close-up, the large scene, the past and the present, is the sense of reflecting the solitary moment. These paintings are aspects of a portrait.
The paintings are made through a labor-intensive process of applying permanent black ink on a 1/4" clear sheet of plexiglass. Using paper towels, water, ink and fine grade sandpapers, the plexiglass is repeatedly painted with an ink wash and sanded, slowly building up to the embedded image. The rubbed surface has a luminous depth and density, darkness is the accumulation of ink, while light is the white wall viewed through the translucent glass.
What may appear to represent an image or photograph, especially reproduced in digital form, is entirely different in person. Looking at the image and surface the viewer can see every pass and touch that the painting received. Even the original preparatory work of sanding down the surface is evident. The artist's process emphasizes a tremendous compression of time and attention, gradually the image develops, becomes focused, and comes forward.
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Schedule
from April 19, 2012 to May 19, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-04-19 from 18:00 to 20:00