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"Youth and Wisdom" is a nod toward the inner lives of two female figures depicted in this portrait. A young woman, painted in purple tones, sits on a wooden structure. A cat crouches next to her. An older woman, with a weathered red face, stands behind her. All the figures are outdoors, perhaps on a farm in a summer environment full of flowers and green foliage. A structure that is shaped like an outhouse, is in the left background. In the foreground a single intact dandelion leans towards the female figures. This plant is a metaphor for the brevity of time. Both women’s faces express a sense of sadness and longing for different reasons. One longs for experience, opportunity, and the ability to leave this place. The other longs for another youthful chance, as she has lived, endured, and is tired. This painting was based on a blurry found photo. Enlarging this image I embraced abstraction and invented color as tools to further story tell. This painting is a part of a series of works I’m making that depict rites of passage, aging, and work, in an attempt to revisit how personal and collective histories contribute to the formation of female identity. They emphasize the feminine spirit as one of fecundity, ephemerality, collaboration, and suffering.
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2020
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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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