“A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – seen, remembered, or imagined.”
John Berger
Currently, I am exploring the spaces and physical objects of my childhood through the medium of drawing. I am interested in the interplay of what I remember now as an adult and what I perceive I remembered as a child. I believe the gulf between child and adult perception is wide and deep. During the process of making, I am attempting to free myself of adult reasoning and justification through mark making. I view my childhood events through the filter of my current emotional state, which is somewhat detached and reflective. The mark making is raw and is an attempt at embodying the feelings, space and presence of myself as a child. During the process of developing the depicted object to a more realized state, I am attempting to create a structure to understand that raw experience. I create the works in layers, which include different processes such as screen-printing, monotype, sewing, painting and drawing to create a dense, and at times, over worked surface. This surface reflects my chaotic internalized search to understand the past through a present reflection.
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Sarah Wiseman, a printmaker from Sterling Heights, Mich., received a BFA from Central Michigan University in 2002. Sarah moved to Tuscaloosa, Ala., after spending some time in the Detroit area as an artist in residence at the Wayne Professional Print Workshop. She recently graduated from University of Alabama with an MFA in Printmaking. While in graduate school, Sarah taught numerous classes in drawing, printmaking, and two-dimensional design. Sarah has exhibited in many national juried exhibitions such the Birmingham Biannual at the Amanda Schedler Fine Art gallery in Birmingham, Ala., and Midwest Biennial Graphics Competition at the Sabatini Gallery in Topeka, Kan.
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Sanctuary
Thread, ink (monotype), pencil, acrylic, and screen-print,
W. 63’’ x H. 28’’, 2006
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up down up down
ink (monotype), thread, acrylic, pencil and screen-print,
W. 60’’ x H. 29’’, 2006
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Discovery
Pencil, Monotype, Screen Print, and gesso,
W. 43’’ x H. 29’’, 2006
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green with purple flowers
Monotype, thread, Screen Print, and gesso,
W. 61’’ x H. 38’’, 2006
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