Marco?, Texô Vitae Series
2015
Marco? - detail, Texô Vitae Series
28x49 inches
Stuck here, she looks to there.
Detail - flat figure
Even though I think she feels like a glued-on bit of paper,
In truth, the figure is painted directly on the raw birch panel.
She is the flattest, most embedded part of this work.
The goal of Texo Vitae is to complicate a simple representation of everyday physical experience. In doing so, I want to question the myth of the universal secular; the idea that given a world of shared mass experience, we all assimilate that experience in different ways. I want to examine the effects of tradition, culture and philosophy on the worldview that I have both constructed for myself and inherited from the world around me. I use the different materials and processes as vehicles to glimpse complex layers of context; layers that I feel I must peer through in order to at least partially examine my own life. I count on everyday imagery combined with these layers to convey the different inherited and acquired languages that I use to tell myself the everyday story of my everyday existence.
Detail - flat figure
Even though I think she feels like a glued-on bit of paper,
In truth, the figure is painted directly on the raw birch panel.
She is the flattest, most embedded part of this work.
The goal of Texo Vitae is to complicate a simple representation of everyday physical experience. In doing so, I want to question the myth of the universal secular; the idea that given a world of shared mass experience, we all assimilate that experience in different ways. I want to examine the effects of tradition, culture and philosophy on the worldview that I have both constructed for myself and inherited from the world around me. I use the different materials and processes as vehicles to glimpse complex layers of context; layers that I feel I must peer through in order to at least partially examine my own life. I count on everyday imagery combined with these layers to convey the different inherited and acquired languages that I use to tell myself the everyday story of my everyday existence.
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.