Sarah Cathers
NIGHT POLLUTION
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SARAH CATHERSNIGHT POLLUTION
March 18th – April 16th
OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, March 18th from 9pm – 11pm
Curated by Brianna Toth
Sarah Cathers practices a sort of alchemy with the commingling of materials in her work: an alchemy that seems to emerge through the obsessive artistic process of trial and error. It is these literal concepts of “material” and “process” that define her paintings. Having a penchant for faux surfaces, Cathers laboriously paints and repaints the found materials used as her canvases, until they are buried by slathers of pigment. It is this process of repetitive layering and mixing that creates an added dimension of illusion within her work. To do this many things are added into the sludge of oil paint to make the final product including polyurethane, shellac, acrylic, linseed oil, pure powdered pigment, spray paint, ink, water, Vaseline, deodorant, flour, sugar, liquid eyeliner, eye shadow, copper, gold and silver dust...
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