Artists' Fellowship - 2000
Painting
Artist Statement:
Using multiple small paintings combined like tiles, Sara Eichner portrays the edges of sparse urban scenes. Serene blue sky, telephone poles, and streetlights populate the large painted grids. "The environment I live in is a decentered, sprawling urban space that is peripheral to a central urban structure. This situation is typical of a contemporary society that tends toward increasingly itinerant and isolated lives in sprawling urban and suburban places. It changes constantly, just as my point of view shifts continuously. There is a tendency to look at peripheral things, to not see the whole but rather details.... Most conventions of western landscape painting do not account for these experiences. However, the limitations of western landscape painting offer a language rich with possibilities and common associations."
More about the Artist:
Participated in the exhibition Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence at Sotheby's, New York, from June-July 2001.
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