SARA GENN: SHELTER IN PLACE

SARA GENN, SHELTER IN PLACE Winston Wächter Fine Art

Sara Genn SHELTER IN PLACE JANUARY 27, 2021 - MARCH 13, 2021 Sara Genn’s most recent body of work, Shelter In Place, was created during the Autumn of 2020 while social distancing in her California home. Her perfectly formed geometric color fields are created free-hand, without the use of tape or projection. Her focus on a singular color in her compositions makes this process similar to molding and forming her shapes, almost as if they are sculptures rather than paintings.

“While the work strives to present a kind of finish fetish through balance, weighting, perfectionism and an absence of visible brushstrokes, upon close examination the paintings are unapologetically flawed and show the hand of the maker in an attempt to harness the principles of the Japanese aesthetic of “wabi-sabi,” which suggests that things are their most beautiful when they show signs of irregularity, and in doing so, inspire a feeling of pleasurable melancholy. My Japanese maternal heritage has heightened my attempt to embody the silence and privacy of looking, the meditative practice and the rhythm of looking, and the communication of longing in my paintings.

As a painter whose practice has always focused on colour field principles, the multilayered vocabulary of colour embodies its most direct and universal value when it signifies a place of refuge and familiarity, as we collectively experience isolation and the obfuscation of clear solutions. The instruction, “Shelter in Place” — while conjuring an emergency, has also summoned a return to domesticity, intimacy, connection, simplicity, resourcefulness and tenderness.” – Sara Genn Sara Genn is a Canadian-born artist living in California. She exhibits in Canada and the US, with collectors in North America, Asia, Europe and Australia. She graduated with a BFA from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario in 1994. Genn has been showing her work professionally since the age of 18 and sold out her first solo exhibition at the age of 19.

Genn’s paintings have been featured in The Toronto Arts Council, Canadian House and Home, NYLON Japan, Town and Country, W, Domino, American Art Collector, New York Magazine, LONY, and Tatler, as well as in the Rizzoli publication New York Parties; Private Views and for the Faberge Big Egg Hunt. Sara Genn is also a composer and independent recording artist, certified Gold in France and publishes a twice-weekly letter on art that carries over fifty thousand direct subscribers.

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Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet Series Year: 2021 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches each Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches each

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Builder) Year: 2021 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Meadow) Year: 2020 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Ink) Year: 2021 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (SoCal) Year: 2021 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: Love Castle Year: 2020 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 72 x 72 inches Frame Size: 73.5 x 73.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Celeste) Year: 2021 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Home Life) Year: 2021 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Present) Year: 2020 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Hyacinth) Year: 2021 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: Mare Year: 2020 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 72 x 60 inches Frame Size: 73.5 x 61.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Strike) Year: 2020 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Snap) Year: 2020 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Mezzanine) Year: 2021 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Holiday) Year: 2020 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Childhood Pleasure) Year: 2021 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 x 2 inches

Artist: Sara Genn Title: New Alphabet (Character Study) Year: 2020 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 20 x 16 x 0.5 inches

Opposite Page, left to right: Everything Will Be Okay (All I'll Ever), 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches (framing dimensions: 61.5 x 49.5 x 2 inches), $13,000 Everything Will Be Okay (Heart’s Content), 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches (framing dimensions: 61.5 x 49.5 x 2 inches), $13,000 Everything Will Be Okay (Hyperion), 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches (framing dimensions: 61.5 x 49.5 x 2 inches), $13,000

Artist: Sara Genn Title: Hyperion Year: 2020 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Size: 24 x 24 inches Frame Size: 25.5 x 25.5 x 2 inches