Sarah McKenzie, Site, 2007, 48 x 72 inches
Anyone who’s recently visited the Walker Art Center will likely recognize Sarah McKenzie’s impressive painting Site, a work currently on view in their exhibition, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, and now gracing our masthead for the next two weeks. Using paint as a metaphor for built space, McKenzie’s surfaces actualize the architectural framework she depicts. Such structures in part, represent the suburban American dream, in its imperfect, growing state. On the one hand these landscapes promise nothing but banality and repetition, and the other, the very nature of unfinished buildings suggests a positive opportunity for change, even if the skeletal structure merely frames more of the same within its background.
Sarah McKenzie Biography
Sarah McKenzie received her BA from Yale and her MFA in Painting from the University of Michigan. She is based in Colorado, and is represented in Denver by Robischon Gallery. In 2006, she was the first place winner of the National Young Painters Competition, hosted by Miami University of Ohio. Past exhibitions include the Katonah Museum of Art, the University of Akron, the Bemis Center, and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. McKenzie‘s work is currently on view in the exhibition “Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes” at the Walker Art Center, and in the exhibition “This Modern World” at the General Electric World Headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut
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Also now available at 20×200!
http://www.20×200.com/art/2008/05/site.html
(but probably not for long…)
Also now available at 20×200!
http://www.20×200.com/art/2008/05/site.html
(but probably not for long…)
when her work went up yesterday on 20×200, I wasn’t drawn for some reason. it’s too deadpan and too monotonous. however Curtis Mann’s work that was put up today is great. I seem to be drawn more to photography, especially in writing – thanks to Afterimage. Hey, did you see “Photography on Photography” at the Met? It’s a killer. If I had to choose between McKenzie and Mark Wyse or Roe Ethridge, I’d pick either of the latter.
when her work went up yesterday on 20×200, I wasn’t drawn for some reason. it’s too deadpan and too monotonous. however Curtis Mann’s work that was put up today is great. I seem to be drawn more to photography, especially in writing – thanks to Afterimage. Hey, did you see “Photography on Photography” at the Met? It’s a killer. If I had to choose between McKenzie and Mark Wyse or Roe Ethridge, I’d pick either of the latter.
Yeah, I mean, I don’t think these paintings document particularly well – as is the case with a lot of work that is heavily invested in paint handling. They really are pretty spectacular in person though
Yeah, I mean, I don’t think these paintings document particularly well – as is the case with a lot of work that is heavily invested in paint handling. They really are pretty spectacular in person though
That painting rocks.
That painting rocks.
I have really enjoyed following Sarah Mckenzie from her early days till now.. I think her latest works are showing her tremendous growth as an artist and I can’t wait to see more.
-Sarah
Arizona Art Gallery
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