On Wednesday, May 26th, musicians from The Torture Chamber Ensemble and Row, Raven, Row will be serenading the art in Sideshow Gallery every hour during open gallery hours. All humans are cordially invited to attend this live musical performance.

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    •  Nap-time In The Bleach-pit
    • Sarah Zar
    • Nap-time In The Bleach-pit
    • 13”x 16”
      oil on canvas

    •  Eau de Joy
    • Sarah Zar
    • Eau de Joy
    • 1.6180339887498948482" x 1.6180339887498948482" x 4.8541017"
      sulfur, glass, labels, rubber twine

    • Feed
    • Sarah Zar
    • Feed
    • 13" x 10"
      charcoal and paint on paper

       

    • Wind
    • Sarah Zar
    • Wind
    • Variable Dimensions
      16" x 10" to 8' x 5'
      collage/ projection

Thinking, creating, learning, loving: any value-experience we have occurs when the number or quality of the connections we make increases. I am an obsessive reader and maker, and have become fascinated with  the study of intuition and the process that allows amalgamations of metaphoric information or imagery to become portals to irrational connections that might evoke an individual viewer’s own perceptive poetry.  My narratives are often non-linear, with many connections, visual puns, and art or literary references folded into them. The images recur in different combinations that alter their implications: forests, well-diggers, headless people, old keys, wrinkled faces, and birds are frequent tropes. 
 

There are so many psycho-social, synaesthetic experiences with perceptual and emotive intricacies we do not yet have common words to describe. I think of my paintings and sculptures as pro tem words and letters. Each piece is a word that can be moved around in or on a surface to write different stories. The titles  are also nomadic and change depending on their context. I often apply logic and theory to irrational landscapes to create Deleuzian objects. Eau de Joy, for example, is an inverted container. Its label reads, “Outside of this vessel, all the joy in the world is contained.” Its purpose is to designate a potential field of joy external to its own spatially specific literal vessel, reminding its Perceivers that joy is therefore possible in the zone they inhabit. It is a reminder that we can take an active role as the curators of our own reality. Art does not need to be only a studio practice. A studio does not need to be any smaller than a universe or a life.

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