Sarah Leahy “At Once”
Kim Foster Gallery
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In this new exhibition, Leahy arranges a series of paintings that read as one installation moving around the gallery space. Figurative image fragments juxtapose and combine in sequences, creating a presence both surprising and familiar. Images echo and amplify, repeating in different ways, layering perceptually, evoking themes and possible contingencies. The painting process and surface evidence a huge compression of time and attention, as gradually the image develops, coming into focus. The viewer experiences a similar unfolding. Careful ordering of the people, spaces and manmade structures, suggest a sense of self and quiet, resonant moment.
“Leahy’s moody paintings are made through a labor-intensive process involving ink washes painted on clear plexiglass sheets and sanded with fine grade sandpaper. Slowly burnishing and refining the surface, and building up a dense but translucent image, Leahy creates an image of a space that seems charged and strangely alive-dark and luminous.”
- Mary Birmingham, Curator, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.
“Why Sarah Leahy’s work? It is startling, memorable. The self-imposed constraints of her technique (successive additions and subtractions of ink on plexiglass) induce a rich querying of that surface. Within the contrast of black and white it is as if within this sparseness each aspect of visual ordering is intensified, and in this no-color situation it is to be noticed that suddenly and strangely, subliminal color is released that lingers hauntingly.”
- Pat Adams, catalogue excerpt “Women Choose Women Again.”
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Schedule
from May 01, 2014 to May 31, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-05-01 from 18:00 to 20:00