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This week as part of the Platform section at The Armory Show, Galerie Lelong and Honor Fraser present a new installation painting by Sarah Cain. MoCA Los Angeles visited her studio.
From Jen Mergel, curator of Platform:
Cain tackles sites to “embrace the ephemeral” and “act in the present tense.” Inspired by Pier 94’s entryway as a portal, two day painting accrued as her instincts for immediacy, improvisation, cuts, colors, surface and detail morphed into a composition for the here and now. Her strokes on layered canvases and architecture assert that painting can be an unfolding zone of activity.
From MoCATV:
When this tender, behind-the-scenes look at Sarah Cain’s Highland Park home and studio, begins, she’s taking down her 15-foot mural, “Runaway,” installed in the DTLA’s Farmers and Merchants Bank for Painting in Place. The grace of Cain’s goodbye fits perfectly with the painter’s commitment to experimentation and nonattachment in her work and in life. She compares her studio practice to her four feral cats: “loving something means accepting it’s going to leave when it wants to. Accepting your lack of control.” Cain is after work that breathes. Her palate is informed by her first memories of color: exuberant yellows pulled from hot air balloons, purple ribbons from the county fair. She finds form through materials, whether they’re “super femme” craft supplies like lanyards, feathers and plastic beads, or canvas, stretcher bars, and paint), and she imbues these would-be “stupid ideas” with a studied ease and delicate glee.
A film by Aubree Bernier-Clarke
