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Painting, Gouache on Paper
Size: 14 W x 11.5 H x 1.5 D in
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A turquoise blue Volkswagen sits abandoned in a field of grass and flowers. In the background clues to the location: a geodesic dome, a series of shelters, a lumber fence, pine trees, and mountains. This painting was based on a photograph I found at a thrift store in Providence, Rhode Island. I wanted to paint the photo because I saw in the image, a utopic community out west, where a person arrived, only to have their car break down. The image became a metaphor for a person's search for ideal communities and the inevitable pitfalls they experience along the way. Gouache as a medium allows me to explore color relationships and flatness of color. This gouache painting is a part of a series of artworks I am making that explore ideas of family, culture, and tradition. Using family photographs, found photos, and advertisements as source materials, I have been collecting and categorizing images that depict rituals, rites, traditions, or qualities of my family and community. Painting these images in a small format, I want these painting to have the intimate feel of a Polaroid. By rendering them in paint, I am able to heighten, emphasize, and stage the symbolism of the painting. At times, the small scale forces me to abstract the figures and as a result the ideas or moments captured in the images are retained, but the faces are no longer recognizable lending them a somewhat more universal feeling.
Painting:Gouache on Paper
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Size:14 W x 11.5 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Other
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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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