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United States
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 5 W x 5 H x 2 D in
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Alice in Wonderland, Little Red Riding Hood, a bride, a nun, Shirley Temple, Elizabeth Taylor, Wonderwoman, and Annie Oakley, are a few of the icons woven throughout this painting. Moving left to right, from youth to old age, this painting considers various stages and roles a woman experiences. Pop icons and Movie characters are stand ins for societal yearnings and struggles. Figures emerge and disappear and join each other, as the character's identities overlap. Central to the painting is a figure formed from painted portraits, a landscape, and fabric sewn into the central composition. Please note that the size of this painting is larger due to the fabric. Female is a part of the series, "Thrift Store Identities", which aims to examine and represent identity through collage based images that are composited as paintings. The original collages use images made from castoff magazines, postcards, and nick-knacks that accumulate at thrift stores, antique malls, and junk shops. While visiting these spaces, I search for source materials that illuminate my own notions of identity. These spaces are, for me, charged with the history of the objects sold. I view them as vernacular museums for things we deem valuable, we long to get rid of, or can't let go from our life. I interpret the images and items I collect and find, and transform them into these collage paintings.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:5 W x 5 H x 2 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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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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