Sarah Wilson: Self-Careless
4316 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90029
Sunday, April 21 at 3:00 PM 7:00 PM
Ends May 18, 2019
East Hollywood Fine Art is pleased to present Self-Careless, the first solo exhibition of painting and sculpture from artist Sarah Wilson. Rendered in a Skittles darkside palette, four paintings whorl the mundanity of quotidian female rituals into psychological and emotional landscapes. Interior states become fleshy, surrealistic figures plaintively playing out the antinomies of self-care, consumption, and isolation. Girls lounge precariously on counters, like a Cézanne apple about to fall. Here, the body is a model for families and institutions without ever losing its sticky corporeality. The sculptures bring the artist’s deft materiality in conversation with her family history, incorporating intimate, personal photographs tucked into amalgamated structures salvaged from her former family home. A giant stuffed denim chair hangs from the ceiling in chains, alternately conveying attitudes of louche display and blank surrender. Some might say they are one and the same. Sarah Wilson (b. 1996, Toronto, Ontario) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She graduates this Spring with an interdisciplinary BFA from the University of Southern California, Roski School of Art and Design. Her work has previously been exhibited in Son of Mr. Green Genes, BBQLA (2017); Soft Bodies, Werkartz, Los Angeles (2018); and The Street and the Shop, Tin Flats, Los Angeles (2018).
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