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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 16.8 W x 18.4 H x 1 D in
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I spent my early twenties painting portraits of the community of artists, musician, and poets, living around me in Columbia, MO. These people were my family and artistic influences. All of these paintings were created live from the model, and as the person sat for me, they told me stories of their life. Through this process, the images became imbibed with the characteristics of the person at that time and age. Amy was a visual artist and I was struck by her direct gaze and pose for this painting. She exuded a confidence and willingness to face the difficulties of her past, a quality that I hoped viewers would also appreciate and carry with them. Later, I discovered the artist Alice Neel and felt a kinship to her working process and style. I use art as a method of storytelling and I believe that each portrait tells a story of that person. I prefer working in oil because of the brilliance of color, the slowness of the medium, and the body of the paint.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16.8 W x 18.4 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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I make work about subcultures, outsiders, and the informal configurations of community. Primarily I work with paint, but I have been animating my paintings and collages for the past ten years. With these mediums, I enjoy telling the story of a person or place. Raised in Kirkwood, Missouri, Sarah Paulsen is an artist, filmmaker and community organizer whose artwork has been exhibited widely in local and national exhibitions, and whose prize-winning films have been featured in the St. Louis International Film Festival, the True/False Film Festival, the Black Maria Film Festival, the Motivate Film Festival and the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, among many others. She was a 2018 Great Rivers Biennial Winner culminating in an exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. A 2010 C.A.T. Institute fellow and 2015 Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellow, she has garnered numerous awards for her work and also completed several residencies – including the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris. A dedicated advocate for social change, a key aspect of Paulsen’s practice has always involved the orchestration of large-scale community projects, such as participatory public murals, thematic round-table discussions and the now-annual People’s Joy Parade on Cherokee Street, currently in its ninth year. Paulsen holds a B.A. in visual art from the University of Missouri, Columbia and an M.F.A. from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art at Washington University. She lives and works in St. Louis, where she teaches art and animation at Marian Middle School and local colleges.
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