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Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 30 W x 40 H x 0.8 D in
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This loose and abstract oil painting depicts the fluidity and spiritual and sexual nature of Prince. Inspired by a 1980 Rolling Stones Cover, I was intrigued by the fuzziness of the source image and wanted to retain this quality and abstract the image, in service of conveying these qualities. During a recent listen to the podcast “Who was Prince?” by Toure, I was struck by how he described the manner in which Prince was trying to be both spiritual and sexual. Prince worked in the tradition of religious and secular music and advocated being a fully sexual person. Hearing descriptions of Prince in relationships- I learned about his sense of presence and the erotic. Finally, Prince played with fluidity in his own identity and public image- he could be masculine or feminine, he could appear as a person of multiple ethnicities (something he apparently used to trick the press). I hope the looseness of this painting lets these qualities breathe. This is an oil painting with areas of gold leaf as ethereal, royal, and textural moments.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:30 W x 40 H x 0.8 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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