Sarah Brenneman

[...] In Sarah Brenneman’s paintings on panel, vibrant patterns float, stretch and morph into fantasy structures. Shapes suggesting gems, skyscraper facades, pulsating lights and mazes mix with those found in nature: trees, water, rocks and clouds. In each painting, a synergistic patterning results.

Brenneman begins by sketching things she has seen: rocks along the New England coast, new buildings going up in Brooklyn or a city grid seen through the window of a plane.

Her inventive combinations of color and space, both shallow and deep, give way to a type of painted architecture, infused with light and held in suspension.[...]

Extrait du Communiqué de Presse "Dynamic Wonder" (15/02/2006 - 18/03/2006) - Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York, USA)