Say Sneeze, Solo Exhibiton by Sarah Beattie

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Location: The Gladstone Hotel Art Bar
Artist Bio: Sarah Beattie is a newly emerging artist, graduating in April of 2012 from the Honours Visual Arts Program at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Preforming Arts at Brock University in St. Catharines Ontario. Beattie is the Ontario provincial winner of BMOs 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition, 2012. Her winning submission Untitled # 6 (2012) from the ongoing series “Say Sneeze” was exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art along with 12 other Canadian visual arts graduates last October. Her works from Say Sneeze (2012-) were also highlighted at The Artist Project Toronto as part of the Untapped Emerging Artists Competition in February 2013 at Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place. Beattie currently lives and works in Hamilton ON. Exhibition Statement: Beatties work consistently deals with the complex relationship between painting and photography, making reference to the juxtaposition of the manual and the mechanical, and the past and present moment. Say Sneeze is a series of painted portraits that explores ambiguous facial expressions. At first glance, each expression may communicate a different emotion to each viewer; relative to perception and pre-conception. The portraits, in actuality, reference photographs of individuals in a pre-sneeze state. The expressions are not evidence of emotion at all, but an uncontrollable expulsion of air; a bodily function which all beings are subject to. The abrupt act of a sneeze has been impulsively captured by the flash of a camera, highlighting the extreme contours of the face by heightening contrast. By translating pixels into brushstrokes – from the screen to the canvas – the recorded moment oscillates between instantaneous and infinite. The paintings stand static in perpetual anticipation of a climax never to arrive.

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