Or Installed with sketch
2013
Silkscreen, Ink and Acrylic on Constructed Canvas
In thinking about the 19th century novel Moby Dick, it is Melville’s heavy dichotomy between the characters Ishmael and Ahab that leaves me, the reader, in a precarious but deadlocked balance. This melodramatic polarization between the active and the contemplative is like walking on a tightrope with a heavy weight in each hand; a plunge into the dark abyss on either side is waiting should the balance be disturbed.
I, on the other hand, am looking for a much lighter metaphor, an airier threshold; one with much less gravity involved and not quite so grand a scale. Somewhere between the quest for the active physical accomplishment and the quest for the contemplative intellectual understanding is the threshold where I would like the larger works in the At The Regatta series to be positioned.
Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable.
The Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.