The images of Sandi Haber Fifield are composites taken from the artist’s archives. They represent moments from life that are personal yet universal. The faces of her subjects are often turned away from the camera, or hidden by hats or panes of glass. This allows viewers to project themselves into the scene and imagine the lives they have lived.
Different times blend together. In these triptychs and quadriptych, the color schemes and patterns endow the images with an emotional value. As such, the smaller-format works which enclose these memories in wooden frames are more touching than the larger aluminum ones covering the gallery walls.
The pastel colors evoke sweet and reassuring dreams. Flowers are everywhere, in different forms—real, drawn or represented—exuding a sense of life. Seeing the mixture of aesthetic approaches, the viewer quickly understands that these images were put together after the fact, a result of the artist’s introspection and a new interpretation of a varied body of work, which explores optical illusions and perspective, but also the representation of existing works.
The combinations and collages are a kind of confession, a way for the artist to delve into her past and bring it back to life in the present, to take stock of how she got where she is today, and not allow the remnants of her life to disappear into her archives.
Laurence Cornet
Sandi Haber Fifield: After the Threshold
Exposition jusqu’au 15 juin 2013
Rick Wester Fine Art
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New York, NY 10001
USA
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