Detail View: University Art Galleries (UMassD): The Anatomy of Oil
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exhibition_title:
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EXQUISITE Work by Sarah Bliss, Allison Paschke, and Sand T
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exhibition_dates:
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January 28 - March 10, 2011
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exhibition_year:
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2011
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exhibition_location:
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University Art Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)
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exhibition_note:
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EXQUISITE is an exhibition that celebrates the delight in seeing and investigating. The three artists, each in their own way, explore light, transparency, layering, bubbles, and color, and materials such as plastic and epoxy resin. They challenge us to find a different kind of beauty, one often inherent in generally available commercial products. The work brings about a new awareness of the reading of space and narrative structures. Although each artist's work lies within the realm of traditional painting and sculpture, the work is first and foremost constructed objects that call attention to their process of creation. The artists give us clues as to further investigations, asking us to project our own sensibility into the play of surface and light, and hints at a possible larger context, whether related to our dependence on oil (Sarah Bliss), hidden or secret story telling (Allison Paschke), or the commercial vocabularies that makes us take delight in candy wrappers, even before we put the candy in our mouth (Sand T). Themes intertwine: death, nostalgia, and the languages of commercials, blend with modes of seeing, with delight and quiet ecstasy.
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exhibition_genre:
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painting
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exhibition_genre:
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sculpture
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exhibition URL:
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http://www1.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery/past/2011/exquisite.cfm
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resourceID:
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11sarah_bliss03
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resource_type:
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photographs
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copyright notice:
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COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: Under the direction of the Visual Resource Center digital collections are made available to the UMass Dartmouth campus community for the sole purpose of classroom instruction and study in accordance U.S. Copyright Laws . All other uses are prohibited and are subject to copyright infringements.
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credit line:
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UMass Dartmouth Art Galleries
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artist name:
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Bliss , Sarah
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artist_nationality:
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American
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artist_biographical note:
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Artist Statement: My work explores the bounds of emotional and spiritual conditions; and the relationship between sacred space, the body, and energetic presence. I'm interested in states of extremis and extension, the elastic nature of time, and the transformative power of myth and ritual. I often engage specific places, accessing their energetic and material histories through kinesthetic exploration, fieldwork, and historical research. I then create conditions and situations that reveal the dynamic interplay between place, body, psyche, spirit, and time. I work across disciplines: video, performance, photography, sound, installation, and sculpture.
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artist_URL:
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http://www.sarahblissart.com/
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artist_reference:
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http://www1.umassd.edu/cvpa/universityartgallery/past/2011/exquisite.cfm
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work_title:
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The Anatomy of Oil
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work_medium:
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paint, shrinkwrap and bubblewrap
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work_technique:
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sculpture
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work_date:
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2009 - 2011
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work_note:
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A series of sculptural paintings made from shrinkwrap and bubblewrap. The series explores the membrane of the "wrapper" as a signifier of absence or not-having, and as material considered valuable only in its ability to protect and contain the central objects of value. I investigate the reversal that happens when these materials shed their role as wrappers and lay full claim to a role as the primary object of value. The reflectivity of the plastics used capture ambient light and cause the paintings to change over the course of the day, forefronting the temporal experience of the viewer.
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work_topic:
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abstracrt
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work_reference:
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http://www.sarahblissart.com/index.cfm?p=i.0&cid=7
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date_of_ record:
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2013/02/02
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name_cataloger:
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ajc
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