Sarah Allen Eagen “Anatomy of Desire”
chashama Gallery (461 W 126th St.)
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Anatomy of Desire, Sarah Allen Eagen’s debut solo exhibition in New York City, presents new drawing, painting, sculpture, and collage from the artist’s cross- disciplinary art practice. Eagen explores the human body as both physical surface and psychological landscape – a locus of contradictory physical and sensory experience that refuses to resolve into a linear narrative. This new work focuses on the tension between the artificial and the real, comfort and discomfort, the stunning and the grotesque. Eagen presents the moment when these distinctions dissolve. We witness a bodily form quivering on the knife’s edge of seduction and repulsion, and must navigate this charged psychological space.
Sarah Allen Eagen is a New York-based artist originally from Toronto, Canada. She is a graduate of Parsons the New School For Design with an MFA in Fine Art and was a recent resident at the School of Visual Arts BioArt program. Inspired by bio art, body architecture, and biological surrealism, her art practice explores the sensual, vulnerable, grotesque and macabre. She is passionate about issues of social injustice, particularly combatting violence against women. Her artwork and publications serve as a platform for her to raise these issues in the hopes of inspiring dialogue and change.
Her research has been published and presented at numerous academic conferences and she has co-authored two book chapters. Her artwork has been exhibited in Canada and the United States and her socially engaged collaborative work was featured at the 2011 Nuit Blanche Contemporary Art Festival and at the Propeller Center for the Visual Arts. Most recently, her artwork was exhibited at The Kitchen in Chelsea, New York. She holds a bachelor degree in Philosophy and Visual Studies from the University of Toronto, Victoria College. She is currently the Communications Director of ArtFile Magazine, a curated online forum for art and culture (artfilemagazine.com). See her work at SarahEagen.com.
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from February 15, 2015 to March 01, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-02-19 from 19:00 to 21:00