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Painting, flasche on Paper
Size: 13 W x 17 H x 1.5 D in
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After being pulled into a parade in Peru, I wanted to understand and share the magic of that brief moment. Working with painting I began to visually depict the non-hierarchical spirit of a parade. I began researching the notion of parades and carnivals as sites of collective celebration. Initially I experimented with ways to visually depict the experience of a parade. In paintings, I selected and combined archetypal figures and built them with an array of materials. Eventually, the paintings expanded materially beyond the canvas. In this series, I depicted significant moments tracing the history of parades, procession, and comunitas as inspired by the book "Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy" by Barbara Ehrenreich. Looking at the history of parades, this artwork illustrates a cautionary tale against dancing in church during the middle ages. One parish who danced during a Christmas Mass, was banned to dance for an entire year with out stopping. Dancers died one by one unable to handle the stress of the task as the devil secretly played the fiddle.
Original Created:
2010
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Painting:
flasche on Paper
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
13 W x 17 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:
Brown
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Not applicable
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Sarah Paulsen
United States
My art centers engagement with social change through the sharing of stories in community spaces. I make work about subcultures, outsiders, and the informal configurations of community. I examine identity through illustrating stories that are intimate and comment on larger social issues. Primarily I work with paint, but I additionally construct animated films made from my artwork, using stop motion animation techniques. 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. 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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