Chasing Starlight, Eclipses and Rainbows
A Solo Exhibition of New Paintings
by Sarah Winkler
OPENING CELEBRATION with the Artist
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14TH 6-8PM
Exhibition runs: October 14th - November 26th, 2022
In Winkler’s second solo show with Visions West Contemporary in Denver, Colorado, the artist celebrates her 25 years of living in and painting the West. ‘Chasing Starlight, Eclipses and Rainbows’ captures stand out moments in an American Western landscape that has embraced the artist, become her muse and captured her artistic attention for a quarter decade. In her signature style of acrylic painting, developed over a period of 17 years, Sarah works with script and flat brushes along with more experimental tools such as mylar, sea sponges, marble dust, and mica flake, incorporating techniques that include optical color mixing, loose gestural painting, dripping, pouring, monoprinting, color field, and symmetry in a hard edge paper cut aesthetic. The depth in her landscapes is achieved through flat cubist style planes. Rather than depicting a place with exactness, Sarah allows the images to surface through the act of creating the compositions. To recollect and recreate the landscape as if in a state of lucid dreaming. For the artist, this reflects the sudden and unpredictable geological events and climate changes that can transform a familiar landscape into another scene at any given moment in time.
Works Shown:
VISIONS WEST CONTEMPORARY
2605 Walnut Street, Denver, CO