Sarah Cain "You Aurora Borealis Me"
Sara Meltzer Gallery
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Describing the natural luminous aurora that occurs in the Northern Hemisphere, the exhibition title YOU AURORA BOREALIS ME speaks to the phenomenon between two people: magnetism, the force exerted, sensory experience and the surroundings that simultaneously bind and disconnect. Sarah Cain's practice is informed most immediately by her physical, emotional and psychic response to the space in which she is creating. She incorporates natural elements and found materials, moving fluidly between works on paper, paint - on and off the canvas, sculpture, and site-specific installation.
Cain's work can happen alarmingly fast in only a few hours or can evolve over years. Similarly, the scale of the work can shift drastically from piece to piece, ranging from a few inches to an entire room. Cain makes adept use of mixed media and collage, seamlessly integrating, sand, spray paint, chain link, scarves and crushed glass onto painted surfaces. This layering lends itself to constant visual discovery.
Finding solace in art that falls outside of the traditional canon, she employs modes stemming from talismanic practices, graffiti, and direct raw mark making from the visionary ecstatic traditions. Her immediate and inventive practice moves between control and abandon, standing on a thin line between not enough and going too far. But perhaps the most palpable charge in Cain's work is her impulse to challenge the status of painting and employ abstraction as a mode of representation to expand on the limits of language.
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Schedule
from April 04, 2009 to May 02, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-04-04 from 18:00 to 20:00