Last Refuge
2011
Fibre Construction
48x60 inches
Identities change over time.
Materials are physically altered by usage and re-usage.
Identity can be reinvented but no matter how strong and redirected is today’s purpose, it cannot completely obliterate the previous lives of the object.
This accumulation of identities leaves a patina of physical surface texture where the layers of accumulated meanings can be read.
So yes, some of those rocks are fun fur from past Halloween costumes.
Those are recycled pieces of oil and watercolour paintings otherwise unfit for public consumption
And some coffee stained canvas test strips dredged up from the bottom of the scrap bin.
Join the two subject figures and look out from this refuge to the great world beyond.
Or hide in here; see if the two silhouettes can peer this far into the gloom, way down into the back of the cave.
This piece won the 2009 Student Legacy Award from the Alberta College of Art + Design Students Association.
Very exciting, because during my four years at ACAD, this was the only award actually based on artistic merit,
rather than GPA.
Materials are physically altered by usage and re-usage.
Identity can be reinvented but no matter how strong and redirected is today’s purpose, it cannot completely obliterate the previous lives of the object.
This accumulation of identities leaves a patina of physical surface texture where the layers of accumulated meanings can be read.
So yes, some of those rocks are fun fur from past Halloween costumes.
Those are recycled pieces of oil and watercolour paintings otherwise unfit for public consumption
And some coffee stained canvas test strips dredged up from the bottom of the scrap bin.
Join the two subject figures and look out from this refuge to the great world beyond.
Or hide in here; see if the two silhouettes can peer this far into the gloom, way down into the back of the cave.
This piece won the 2009 Student Legacy Award from the Alberta College of Art + Design Students Association.
Very exciting, because during my four years at ACAD, this was the only award actually based on artistic merit,
rather than GPA.
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.