Sara Cwynar “Rose Gold”

Foxy Production

[Image: Sara Cwynar "Tracy (Stepping Forward, Stepping Backward)" (2017) dye sublimation print on aluminum, 30 x 38 in.]

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Foxy Production presents Rose Gold, Sara Cwynar’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Rose Gold comprises a new film and a new series of photographs. Cwynar’s film Rose Gold focuses on Apple’s Rose Gold iPhone, tracking how the phone acts as a talisman of desire for objects, people, power, and money. The film considers how individuals - the artist is one of its protagonists - negotiate complicated feelings of love and hate for a commercial object, and how features such as touch and 3D resonate viscerally with the user’s emotions and imagination. Cwynar’s new photographs comprise studio portraits of Tracy, a friend of the artist, with superimposed found objects and images; recomposed illustrations of suits of armor; a set of Avon presidential after-shave bottles from the 1970s minus their heads; and a studio photograph of a hot pink peony on a green background. Like her film, Cwynar’s photographs highlight the residual power of everyday, discarded objects and images.

Sara Cwynar (Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1985) currently in lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT; a Bachelor of Design from York University, Toronto, ON; and studied English Literature at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Recent exhibitions include: You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (2017); We are the Center for Curatorial Studies, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; L’Image Volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (both 2016); Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (2015-16); If You Leave Me Can I Come Too? Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY; and Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (both 2015.)