Days of Sun and Wind - sketch 1 for Optimist
2011
Silkscreen and Acrylic on Bleached Linen
12x18 inches
Simple silkscreen shapes,
Some completely defined and heavily applied
Some lightly applied, not so deeply ingrained
The shape of the sail is
Nothing but
The background linen
Because it just is
The background
The process test?
Heavy acrylic paint
Applied to the foreground
And then forcibly removed
With a belt sander.
A shiny layer of Roplex
glosses over
The violent erasure
filtering out the
damage.
Some completely defined and heavily applied
Some lightly applied, not so deeply ingrained
The shape of the sail is
Nothing but
The background linen
Because it just is
The background
The process test?
Heavy acrylic paint
Applied to the foreground
And then forcibly removed
With a belt sander.
A shiny layer of Roplex
glosses over
The violent erasure
filtering out the
damage.
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.