Optimist Installed - What is Optimist?
2012
Silkscreen on Vintage Laser Sail
240x72 inches
Optimist: is the name of a tiny sailboat design.
Optimist: is a class that is sailed and raced all over the world.
Optimist: is the boat that so many many sailors would have first sailed solo at the age of 7 to 10.
Optimist: I believe is a mental state that every sailor must inhabit before they can ever set sail.
Optimist: is a class that is sailed and raced all over the world.
Optimist: is the boat that so many many sailors would have first sailed solo at the age of 7 to 10.
Optimist: I believe is a mental state that every sailor must inhabit before they can ever set sail.
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.