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Sarah Cain : enter the center

Title: Sarah Cain : enter the center / Ian Berry ; with texts by Andy Campbell, Lauren Haynes, and Bernadette Mayer.
Publication: Saratoga Springs, NY : The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College ; New York : DelMonico Books, June 2022.

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Description

135 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm.

Summary

Los Angeles-based painter Sarah Cain (born 1979) works on canvases of all sizes, often modifying them by cutting and braiding, painting on all sides and installing the canvas with the back of the painting facing the viewer. She also paints on other surfaces, including interior and exterior walls, floors and dollar bills. She uses vivid colors and shapes, and often includes found objects such as jewelry, pompoms, hula hoops and other items she has a personal attachment to. Cain's process often involves altering and disfiguring a composition until the original image is no longer recognizable. The creation and destruction of her paintings is part of Cain's process that, in part, revolves around self-discovery. Cain describes herself as a feminist painter, using elements that are traditionally seen as feminine and "girly" as an act of nonconformity and antipathy to the patriarchal hierarchies of painting. "Almost everything about Cain's paintings--their speed, their brashness, their noodling compositions, their splashes and spray-painted scribbles, their tacky accouterments, their sense of absurdity--seems to undermine the gravitas that large-scale painting traditionally projects," wrote Jonathan Griffin, in the New York Times.

Series Statement

Opener ; 33

Uniform Title

Sarah Cain (Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery)
Opener ; 33.

Alternative Title

Enter the center

Subjects

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, July 10-December 19, 2021.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-131).

Contents

Failures in infinitives / Bernadette Mayer -- See you on my terms / a dialogue with Sarah Cain by Ian Berry -- Attachment : against a Kum-Kleen method / Andy Campbell -- In nature / Lauren Haynes.

Call Number

JQF 23-178

ISBN

9781636810140
1636810144

OCLC

1317681640

Title

Sarah Cain : enter the center / Ian Berry ; with texts by Andy Campbell, Lauren Haynes, and Bernadette Mayer.

Publisher

Saratoga Springs, NY : The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College ; New York : DelMonico Books, June 2022.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Opener ; 33

Opener ; 33.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-131).

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Berry, Ian, 1971- contributor.

Campbell, Andy, 1982- contributor.

Haynes, Lauren, contributor.

Mayer, Bernadette, contributor.

Cain, Sarah, 1979-

Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, host institution, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JQF 23-178

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