I was familiar with preserved Civil War fields like Gettysburg, where there are national parks and monuments all over the place. They're places that are hallowed and sacred and interpreted with text and park rangers. The whole mechanics of history is brought to bear on these places. |
Sarah Walker is part of a small new generation of artists who are reinventing the language of abstract painting for the 21st century. The language she is creating is germane to 21st-century concerns: computer technology and screens, information retrieval systems, the new physics, cosmology, and neuroscience. The other thing in Sarah's work that sets it apart is the sheer complexity of the imagery. |
She's a painter who is not afraid of color. It's not just the saturation of color, but the number of colors and the complexity of the color combinations. And she's not afraid of beauty, either. |