Sarah Cain Included in Collections in National Gallery of Art
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY .- The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore Higher announces that the next artist in its influential Opener series is Sarah Cain. The exhibition Opener 33: Sarah Cain—Enter the Heart opened July ten and will be on view through Jan 2, 2022.
Los Angeles–based artist Cain explores and expands upon traditional ideas of painting, oft modifying canvases by cut and braiding, painting on all sides, and installing the sheet with the back facing the viewer. She paints on other surfaces, also, including interior and exterior walls, floors, and dollar bills, and oftentimes includes found objects such as crystals, feathers, beads, and other items with a personal connection. Her procedure involves many layers of altering a limerick—a cycle of creation and destruction that, in function, revolves around self-discovery. Cain describes herself every bit a feminist painter, using elements traditionally seen as feminine as an act of not-conformity and an alternative to the traditional hierarchies of painting.
Opener 33: Sarah Cain — Enter the Heart features more a dozen major paintings from 2012 through 2020 and an expansive site-specific installation in the Tang that includes a wall-to-wall floor painting and painted furniture.
"Sarah Cain's work reflects a hard-earned joy that comes from rigorous experimentation and her own critical cocky-examination," said Ian Drupe, Dayton Managing director and exhibition curator. "It is a pleasance to welcome Sarah back to the region, to collaborate with her on her new work, and to introduce her paintings to new audiences."
In recent years, Cain has garnered broad acclamation for site-specific installations such as Nosotros Will Walk Right Upward To The Sun, 2019, a permanent installation of a 150-foot-long series of stained-glass windows at the San Francisco International Airdrome; i touched a cactus blossom, 2019, a painted interior, including walls, floors, and furniture, in the Paramount Studios Backlot; and Mount Song, 2017–2018, a large-scale, site-responsive installation at Elk Camp on Snowmass Mount in Aspen, Colorado. In add-on to the exhibition at the Tang, Cain has contempo major projects at The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas; the National Gallery of Fine art in Washington, D.C.; and Broadway Inc. in New York.
Two new books will accompany the exhibition. I is an artist book based on Cain's music book, a project Cain began in 2008 in which she paints on pages of sheet music from sometime music books. The artist edition of the music book is designed by Los Angeles–based artist and designer Conny Purtill and published past the Tang Teaching Museum in association with 10 Artists' Books. The second publication volition be a survey of Cain'due south piece of work to date, with a focus on the concluding decade, including her major site-specific installations at venues beyond the state. The book, edited by Ian Berry, will include new writing by Andy Campbell and Lauren Haynes, an extensive interview betwixt Cain and Berry, and the 1968 poem "Failures in Infinitives" by Bernadette Mayer, a friend and colleague the creative person. The volume Opener 33: Sarah Cain—Enter the Center volition be co-published by the Tang and DelMonico Books/D.A.P.
Opener 33: Sarah Cain—Enter the Center is curated by Dayton Manager Ian Berry in collaboration with the artist. The Opener serial surveys the work of emerging and mid-career artists in what is, for many, their kickoff solo museum exhibition. By Openers have surveyed the work of Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Arturo Herrera, Carrie Moyer, Amy Sillman, Los Carpinteros, and Jeff Sonhouse.
Sarah Cain was built-in in Albany, New York, in 1979 and grew upwardly in nearby Kinderhook. She earned her MFA at the Academy of California Berkeley and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Found. Recent solo exhibitions include We Volition Walk Right Upward to The Lord's day at the San Francisco International Airport; Greenhouse at Vielmetter Los Angeles; and Sarah Cain: In Nature at The Momentary, Bentonville, AR. In 2014, she was included in I was a double at the Tang Teaching Museum. Cain currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Source: https://artdaily.com/news/137435/Tang-Teaching-Museum-reopens-to-the-public-with-exhibition-of-works-by-Sarah-Cain