OutStanding
2014
Oil on Canvas
72x53 inches
"You are a challenging upright thing,
as sudden as a exclamation mark,
as enigmatic as a question mark."
Ref:
"Desolate? Foreboding? There never was a country that in its good moments was more beautiful. Even in drought or dust storm or blizzard, it is the reverse of monotonous, once you have submitted to it with all the senses. You don't get out of the wind but learn to lean and squint against it. You don't escape the sky and sun, but wear them in your eyeballs and your back. You become acutely aware of yourself. The world is very large, the sky even larger, and you are very small. But the world is also flat, empty, nearly abstract, and in its sudden flatness you are a challenging upright thing, as sudden as a exclamation mark, as enigmatic as a question mark."
Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow 1955.
as sudden as a exclamation mark,
as enigmatic as a question mark."
Ref:
"Desolate? Foreboding? There never was a country that in its good moments was more beautiful. Even in drought or dust storm or blizzard, it is the reverse of monotonous, once you have submitted to it with all the senses. You don't get out of the wind but learn to lean and squint against it. You don't escape the sky and sun, but wear them in your eyeballs and your back. You become acutely aware of yourself. The world is very large, the sky even larger, and you are very small. But the world is also flat, empty, nearly abstract, and in its sudden flatness you are a challenging upright thing, as sudden as a exclamation mark, as enigmatic as a question mark."
Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow 1955.
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.