Sarah Cain
Bio
Sarah Cain (b. 1979 Albany, New York) uses the basic components of painting—a wall, stretcher bars, canvas, and paint—to explore the limits and potential of the medium. She sees a stretched canvas not only as a surface upon which to enact a composition but as something to be cut open, augmented, and altered in any number of ways. Rather than conceiving of a painting as autonomous, Cain strives to connect her works to the proximate architectural and psychic spaces. For this exhibition, she has created a delicate structure that is both a drawing in space and a threshold, suggesting movement from one dimension into another. This work asks us to consider the distance between our perceptual space and our physical experience of it. In a similar manner, Cain’s intimately scaled works on paper are composed on found book pages or sheet music, arising from the original content on the printed pages but not limited by it.
Gallery
Sarah Cain
Sarah Cain. In loving memory of your mind, 2011. Acrylic, gold leaf, sand, beads, and bells on canvas. 100 x 80 x 30 in. (254 x 203.2 x 76.2 cm). Courtesy the artist; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco. Photo by Joshua White.
Sarah Cain
Sarah Cain. Solar eclipse in Leo, 2011. Acrylic and sand on canvas. 74 x 72 x 3 in. (188 x 182.9 x 7.6 cm). Courtesy the artist; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco. Photo by Joshua White.
Sarah Cain
Sarah Cain. Music Book, 2008-12. 20 gouache and acrylic paintings on music sheets, bound in a book. Dimensions vary between 13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm) and 13 x 21 in. (33 x 53.3 cm). Courtesy the artist; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco. Photo by Joshua White.
Sarah Cain
Sarah Cain. Music Book, 2008-12. 20 gouache and acrylic paintings on music sheets, bound in a book. Dimensions vary between 13 x 10 in. (33 x 25.4 cm) and 13 x 21 in. (33 x 53.3 cm). Courtesy the artist; Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles; and Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco. Photo by Joshua White.
Sarah Cain
Works by Sarah Cain. Installation view at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, June 2, 2012-September 2, 2012. Photo by Brian Forrest.
Sarah Cain
Works by Sarah Cain. Installation view at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, June 2, 2012-September 2, 2012. Photo by Brian Forrest.
Sarah Cain
Sarah Cain invited us to join her in one of her favorite places, The Huntington Gardens on a quiet Monday morning.