Sarah Davidson: “the scrap collector”
10 September-15 October 2016
Opening reception: Friday, 9 September, 7-11PM
Moving between drawing, painting, collage and sculpture, Sarah Davidson’s “the scrap collector” is a series of works that elicit the curiosity and study of an amateur natural historian. Fragments of abstract forms and fleeting imagery are carefully laid on paper or suspended like specimens within a floating frame. Using history books or her own photographs as reference material, Davidson’s work is a puzzle presented for the viewer to decipher. In this shared experience between the artist and the public, narratives of time, space and memory are created in the play between shape, colour and line. As a collection, the works are both playful and pointed: they appeal through their delicate humour, wrapping art historical references in webs of ornamental marks. Beyond the historical, the works evoke the character of the scrap collector as she records her own experiences of place, reconfigured as a series of shapes that hover between affect and archive.
Sarah Davidson is an artist based in Vancouver. She graduated from Emily Carr University in 2015. Solo exhibitions in 2016 have included “Backgrounds” at Chernoff Fine Art, “Scrap Map” at Project Space and “Mapping IRL” at WePress Gallery. Recent group exhibitions include “Puddle Popper” at Dynamo Arts Association in collaboration with Sonja Ratkay, Juli Majer and Melanie Thibodeau. Davidson has written for local arts publications ISSUE magazine and Bartleby Review, and published artist books through Satellite Gallery in 2013 and 2014. Davidson recently completed a residency supported by Sandnes kommune and Rogaland fylkeskommune in Sandnes, Norway.
See Sarah Davidson’s Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory page HERE.
(adapted from the gallery’s press materials)
INFORMATION
Gam Gallery
110 East Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 1N4
(778) 235-6928
Hours:
Friday-Saturday, 1-5PM
or by appointment
Image:
Blue Colour
by Sarah Davidson
36″x28″
mixed media
2016
Images courtesy of The Gam Gallery, Vancouver