Sarah Fuhrman
Born and raised in Albany, New York, Sarah is exceedingly glad to be back near her stomping grounds while at Arts, Letters & Numbers! Currently, Sarah lives and works in Brooklyn, and is represented by Slag Gallery. She has had numerable opportunities for showing her work in art fairs and group shows across New York City, including, but not limited to a two person show with Chris Dacs entitled The ChildLike Life based on Kathy Acker writings, and her first Solo Show entitled Complex Possessed. Sarah looks forward to showing at the Affordable Art Fair this fall with the feminist gallery, Collective 131.
Sarah paints generative fictions and abstractions that she constructs using elements of poured paint, collage, landscape, portraiture and screen culture. Her multimedia images contain allegories on occasion and poetic, painterly disharmonies in others, all the while invoking contemporary discourse of both ecological and psychological themes. Over time, Fuhrman constructs calculated systems, or other worlds, of protoplasmic sky and water-ways that are often surrounded by carefully delineated too-good-to-be-true lush green land, cold cement walkways, or dirty grounds of rough asphalt that are blacker than the blackest of black. Often residing over these quasi-territories are feminine actors- the overlooked historical figures with which society has deemed “witchy”, outsider, or marginalized- made pivotal and forthright, seemingly after some abstract conquest or basking in a surreal dream. Compositionally, Fuhrman decidedly destabilizes the viewers’ sense of gravity and horizontality by creating abstractions of landscapes that metamorphose interconnectedness of ground, figure, and landscape into ethereal spaces. The seemingly floating, populated locations remain physically ambiguous, neverending, or mysteriously placed, yet altogether playful and alchemistic, leading the viewer into multiple paths of discovery or jest.
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