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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 39 W x 39 H x 1 D in
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A mermaid waves from the water, behind her is a village and a ghostly woman's head. In the foreground worker's attempt to stop melting ice blocks. This painting represents the search for my German and Danish paternal ancestors. Considering family mythology and the manner in which histories can be invented, I used the symbol of the mermaid as an allegory for the elusive and mysterious nature of family history. The melting ice represents an attempt to understand or preserve something that is at the same time disappearing. The ghostly head in the background references the lost history of female ancestors. This work is part of the "White Ghosts" series. For the past three years, I have been dissecting my "whiteness" in an attempt to make visible that which is unseen or unspoken. During this personal journey, I have attempted to untangle my ethnic and cultural identity and understand the historical social construct of whiteness. The artwork I have made is at times a documentation of my search, a reflection on my experience of whiteness, and/or an attempt to answer my own questions about the formation of racial identity in the U.S.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
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Size:39 W x 39 H x 1 D in
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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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