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| The Hospital, 2007, acrylic on panel, 16 x 20 inches | Sarah Trigg's Website | ||
| Sarah Trigg's series Daily Markings on the Face of the Earth examines the markings occurring to the face of the earth during the duration of one day; and conjures how media imagery of our landscape is internalized subconsciously. Each painting represents an individual calendar day, chosen at random, within the past decade. To start a painting, the artist researches archived news articles of man-made and natural events marking the earth's surface on the specific date such as: unexplained algae blooms, glacial drilling, floods, tightening of international borders, or war bombing--anything leaving a trace, a blot, a plume of smoke, or an unintended drawing. Once she has compiled the markings, the artist searches for imagery related to the events. For each painting, she collects roughly 100 to 200 images and chooses a selection as inspiration for the final composition. The completed paintings are cohesive landscapes built of the mediated visual information absorbed of the global landscape in the course of one day. Sarah Trigg is originally from Wisconsin and now lives and works in Brooklyn New York. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University, College of Architecture in Ithica, New York. Ms. Trigg is included in the upcoming exhibition entitled Future Tense, curated by Dede Young at the Neuberger Art Museum (2008) and was a selected artist in the Aim Program at the Bronx Museum of Art in 2006. |
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